The system was championed by President Dwight Eisenhower, who had seen at first hand how effective Germany's autobahns (unlike its more vulnerable railways) had been at moving men and materiel during the second world war.
By September 14 the Americans were urgently moving stores of ammunition and other materiel, along with American sick, to Orangetown, New York.
Helicopters lumber overhead with steady regularity some moving to patrol the border with China, others delivering rations and materiel to forward bases, yet others bringing higher-ranking officers and dignitaries to work.
9.05pm BST Cardin asks if the military is planning for how Assad might move around troops or materiel in response to the US threat.
Without any sea-lift capacity of its own, Canada moves its personnel and materiel either by private freighter or by arranging rides to wars and peacekeeping assignments aboard the ships of other NATO countries.
France wants more U.S. and European help to move its soldiers and materiel.
Carlson's battalion was ordered to move to the upper Tenaru River and patrol around the Lunga River south of the Lunga perimeter to locate the trail the Japanese had used to position their men and materiel for their assaults during the Battle for Henderson Field.
Materiel points act as an in-game currency, allowing you to produce new units.
The War Production Act of 1950 protected production of materiel necessary to our national security.
"The tactics and materiel and commanding general are changing.
