Materiel Support Center, Korea (MSC-K)
The US Army Materiel Support Center, Korea (USAMSC-K) is headquartered at Camp Carroll located in Waegwan, 25 miles northwest of Taegu. MSC-K maintains all United States military equipment in Korea, with the exception of aviation, medical, dental, signal intelligence, electronic warfare, and special weapons systems. This includes everything from tents to tanks, radios to troop transports, and rifles to construction vehicles. MSC-K stores all the equipment necessary for a brigade. This Brigade Set is kept in six warehouses, including two which hold 58 tanks each. In the event of war, troops would arrive from the United States, pick up their equipment and head off to battle. MSC-K provides general purpose supply items, lumber, and food for the soldiers, and maintains a facility which supplies parts for 15 motor pools in Korea.
MSC-K performs General Support (GS) maintenance and special repairs (through Special Repair Activity) on all categories of equipment and materiel (except aviation, dental, medical, SIGINT/EW, and special weapon items) in support of designated activities and units, and the Eighth US Army General Support Repair Program. It provides back-up Maintenance Support to Direct Support Units. MSC-K repairs major assemblies, sub-assemblies, and components in support of the General Support Repairable Activity (GSRA). It provides GS supply support to EUSA directed by the 19th TSC, and exercises command and control over assigned units.
MSC-K performs oil analysis for ground and aviation equipment. It maintains a facility for testing vehicle fluids (motor oil, transmission fluid, etc.). By examining the minute amounts of metals and other contaminants in these fluids, technicians can spot potential problems before the tank or truck breaks down.
MSC-K operates a Mission Supply Support Account (MSSA) IAW AR 710-2 to support the GSRP and GSRA maintenance programs. It provides GS supply support for all SSSC items, lumber, KATUSA Kits, milk products, perishable, and semi-perishable food products, and fresh fruit and vegetables to sustain all soldiers within USFK. MSC-K provides Commercial Vehicle Parts Support (CVPS) supply to all Transportation Motor Pools throughout Korea, and provides for accountability and storage, COSIS, preservation and packaging, overall readiness, Reception Staging Onward Movement and Integration (RSO&I), and other services relative to Army Pre-positioned Stocks (APS-4) materiel (Brigade Set, operational projects, sustainment stocks, and War Reserve Stocks for Allies) and Theater stocks.
Construction of the U.S. Army Storage Facility, Camp Carroll began in May 1959 by the 44th Engineer Battalion. This site was selected because of its location on both the main Seoul to Pusan rail line and the primary North-South Highway, MSR #1. One year later, the 19th Quartermaster Company was the first to set up headquarters.
Camp Carroll was converted from an aggregate of TO&E logistical units to a depot-concept organization. It was redesignated "U.S. Army Camp Carroll Depot" on 15 September 1964. Camp Carroll Depot had two missions: to provide general support (GS) maintenance for the Eighth United States Army, and storage of EUSA operational and reserve stocks.
On 1 December 1976, Camp Carroll Depot was redesignated United States Army Materiel Support Center, Korea and operates under the "Directorate" concept. Pusan Storage Facility was realigned from 20th Area Support Group to USAMSC-K as of 1 April 1993. USAMSC-K continues to provide GS Supply and Maintenance Support for EUSA, as well as backup direct support (DS).
