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Outgoing Army Field Support Battalion-Africa Commander Lt. Col. Miguel Flores, 405th Army Field Support Brigade Commander Col. Brad Bane and incoming AFSBn-Africa Commander Lt. Col. Alexander Amato render honors to the National Colors at the AFSBn-Africa change of command ceremony June 10 at Leghorn Army Depot, Italy (photo by Vincenzo Vitiello)

405th AFSB’s battalion ‘South of the Alps’ changes command

More than 25 Polish high school students from the Stanislaw Mikolajczyk Economic and Technical School in Paslek, Poland, and their instructors pose for a photo with Army Field Support Battalion-Mannheim personnel at an Equipment Configuration and Hand-off Area in Braniewo, Poland. The students were afforded the opportunity to see, touch and learn about the 405th Army Field Support Brigade’s Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 sets at the ECHA site following DEFENDER-Europe 22. (photo by Cpt. Aaron Carpenter)

Polish military students get a look at APS-2 equipment sets

Equipment from the Army Prepositioned Stock-2 site in Eygelshoven, Netherlands arrived at Grafenwoehr, Germany, April 12. The equipment was off-loaded and staged to be issued to the 50th Expeditionary Signal Battalion (Enhanced) for DEFENDER-Europe 21. (photo by Jesse Pilgrim, 21st TSC PAO)

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Croatian army conducts mil-to-mil APS-2 maintenance exchange with AFSBn-Africa in Italy
April 30, 2024 — For the third year in a row, Army Field Support Battalion-Africa, located at Leghorn Army Depot in Livorno, executed a bilateral military-to-military Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 maintenance exchange and engagement with the Croatian army. At the Leghorn facilities April 16-20, APS-2 maintenance experts from AFSBn-Africa conducted an exchange of ideas and processes with maintainers from the Croatian army in order to share best practices and improve readiness for both armies, while fostering important partnerships and alliances. ... MORE

Marco Gragnani, a supervisory maintenance operations specialist and an Italian local national employee with Army Field Support Battalion-Africa (third from left), provides a few soldier maintainers from the Croatian army a tour of one of AFSBn-Africa’s maintenance facilities at Leghorn Army Depot in Livorno, Italy. Soldier maintainers from Croatian army were at Leghorn April 16-20 as part of a bilateral military-to-military APS-2 maintenance exchange with AFSBn-Africa. (Photo by Maj. Duane Dumlao, AFSBn-Africa executive officer)

405th AFSB welcomes new commander at assumption of command ceremony
April 25, 2024 — Between bouts of freezing rain in the morning and a severe hailstorm in the afternoon, the skies opened up and spirits shined bright on the 405th Army Field Support Brigade during its assumption of command ceremony, April 24. Army Col. Ernest J. Lane II assumed command of the 405th AFSB at the ceremony, which was held on NCO Field at Daenner Kaserne in Kaiserslautern and attended by dozens of distinguished guests and visitors, plus friends and family of Lane. ... MORE

Army Maj. Gen. David Wilson, the commanding general of U.S. Army Sustainment Command, and Col. Ernest J. Lane II, the commander of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade, render honors at Lane’s assumption of command ceremony April 24 on NCO Field at Daenner Kaserne in Kaiserslautern, Germany. And Lane and his family cut the cake at his reception, following the ceremony (Elisabeth Paqué, Training Support Center Kaiserslautern VI photographer)

New LRC in Poland develops into effective support organization despite facing challenges
April 24, 2024 — When a new Army garrison officially stood up in Poland last year, with it came a new Logistics Readiness Center. LRC Poland, which is the newest of eight LRCs under the mission command of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade, activated a little over a year ago and immediately began establishing business practices in support of U.S. Army Garrison Poland, the Polish military, U.S. Army Europe and Africa, V Corps and 21st Theater Sustainment Command... MORE

The Logistics Readiness Center Poland team poses for a photo in front of the entry sign at Camp Kościuszko in Poznan, Poland, where LRC Poland is headquartered. LRC Poland is the newest of eight LRCs under the mission command of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade. (U.S. Army courtesy photo)

Powerful grasp of languages common denominator for LRC Italy’s employees of the year
April 22, 2024 — A powerful grasp of languages was the common denominator for Logistics Readiness Center Italy’s Employee of the Year selections for fiscal year 2023. The senior graded employee of the year speaks five languages, and the junior graded employee of the year is a linguistics scholar. Rudy Valentin is LRC Italy’s senior-graded employee of the year, and LRC Italy’s junior-graded employee of the year is Elena Esposito... MORE

A powerful grasp of languages was the common denominator for Logistics Readiness Center Italy’s Employee of the Year selections for fiscal year 2023. The senior graded employee of the year speaks five languages, and the junior graded employee of the year is a linguistics scholar. Rudy Valentin is LRC Italy’s senior-graded employee of the year, and LRC Italy’s junior-graded employee of the year is Elena Esposito. (U.S. Army courtesy photo)

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