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Support the Warrior

The 405th Army Field Support Brigade – assigned to the U.S. Army Sustainment Command and under the operational control of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command, U.S. Army Europe and Africa – is headquartered at Daenner Kaserne, Kaiserslautern, Germany, and provides Materiel Enterprise support to U.S. forces throughout Europe and Africa – providing theater sustainment logistics; synchronizing acquisition, logistics and technology; and leveraging the U.S. Army Materiel Command Materiel Enterprise to support joint forces.

OUR MISSION: 405th Army Field Support Brigade operationalizes U.S. Army Materiel Command capabilities and delivers anticipatory readiness within the U.S. European Command and U.S. Africa Command areas of responsibility, at the tactical point of need.

OUR VISION: Operationalizing the Army's logistics enterprise to Support the Warrior
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05th Army Field Support Brigade Logistics Civil Augmentation Program-Europe contractors set up billeting tents to support Operation Allies Refuge at Rhine Ordnance Barracks in Kaiserslautern, Germany, Aug. 25. Operation Allies Refuge is facilitating the quick, safe evacuation of U.S. citizens, Special Immigrant Visa applicants and other at-risk Afghans from Afghanistan. This initiative follows through on America’s commitment to Afghan citizens who have helped the United States, and provides them essential support at secure locations, where they and their families can complete the SIV process safely. (U.S. Army photo by Olga Pagano)

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Army Prepositioned Stocks Program

The Army Prepositioned Stocks Program builds strategically prepositioned critical war stocks to reduce response times as part of the European Reassurance Initiative and facilitates NATO’s rapid deterrence plans
Logistics Assistance Program

The Logistics Assistance Program provides technical support for all Army fielded equipment, to include early detection and resolution of problems or trends that have an adverse impact on unit operational readiness.
Logistics Civil Augmentation Program

The Logistics Civil Augmentation Program provides Base Life Support and Sustainment Services to deployed forces, during contingency operations within EUCOM and AFRICOM to support U.S. national strategic objectives.
Logistics Readiness Center

The Logistics Readiness Center executes installation logistics: supply, maintenance, transportation, food service, clothing issue facility, hazardous material, personal property/household goods, passenger travel, non-tactical vehicles, and garrison equipment.

AFSBn-Germany ECHA operations in Lithuania

AFSBn-Germany ECHA ops in Lithuania

A float ribbon bridge system from the Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in Zutendaal, Belgium, is used by U.S., Polish, French and Swedish military forces to cross the Vistula River between Ryki and Kozienice, Poland, during DEFENDER-Europe 22, May 13. The float bridge is part of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade’s APS-2 program. This was the first time a float bridge system from the Zutendaal APS-2 site was transported to Poland and used during a DEFENDER-Europe exercise. (Photo by Michał Czornij)

APS-2 float bridge system employed in Poland during DEFENDER-Europe 22

A forklift driver at a warehouse in Livorno, Italy, moves a pallet of Humanitarian Assistance Program cargo, specially sleeping cots, which was shipped April 5 to Moldova to assist the government there with helping to support displaced Ukrainians entering their country. Per a request from the U.S. Embassy in Moldova and approved by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the sleeping cots plus some generators were prepared for shipment, thanks to a special HAP team at Livorno, which is administratively assigned to Logistics Readiness Center Italy, 405th Army Field Support Brigade. (U.S. Army courtesy photo)

LRC Italy HAP supports displaced Ukrainians entering Moldova

A formation of newly arrived Joint Light Tactical Vehicles lines up at Coleman worksite, assigned to the 405th Army Field Support Brigade’s Army Prepositioned Stock-2 site there. More than 650 JLTVs are arriving to the APS-2 site in Mannheim, Germany, over the next few weeks. The Coleman APS-2 site is the first APS site in the world to receive the JLTVs, which are replacing the Army’s Humvees.

Joint Light Tactical Vehicles arrive at APS-2 site in Mannheim

When he first started working at Leghorn Army Depot for the U.S. Army in 1984, he and his fellow employees had less than 100 pieces of rolling stock they worked with, and the mechanical condition of the equipment was not their responsibility.

Now, 36 years later – at that same Army depot in Livorno, Italy – the Army Field Support Battalion-Africa deputy support operations officer says his team is responsible for over 3,000 pieces of equipment, to include their serviceability and operational condition.

“We’ve grown tremendously,” said Massimo Carpina, who started out as a care and preservation servicer and rose through the ranks to eventually become one of AFSBn-Africa’s senior leaders.

AFSBn-Africa supports USAREUR-AF mission growth

Over 500 armored vehicles are stored and maintained at the Army Prepositioned Stock-2 worksite on Coleman Barracks – everything from M1 Abrams tanks, M2 Bradley fighting vehicles and self-propelled howitzers to staff tracked vehicles, armored personnel carriers and more.

Mannheim APS-2 site receives next-generation artillery systems

The 839thTransportation Battalion loads a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle onto cargo vessel Liberty Passion in support of an Army Preposition Stock move from the APS-2 site at Leghorn Army Depot, Italy, to a new APS site location. The mission was the responsibility of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade’s Army Field Support Battalion-Africa with the 839th Trans. Bn. and multiple other units and organizations in support. (U.S. Army photo by Edward Salas)

AFSBn-Africa moves Army Preposition Stock to new APS site

A Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All Terrain Vehicles, or M-ATV, is lowered into the hull of the Ocean Giant cargo vessel at the Port of Livorno in Italy. The 405th Army Field Support Brigade’s Army Field Support Battalion-Africa was responsible for prepping, preparing and moving over 1,300 M-ATVs from its Army Prepositioned Stock-2 site at Leghorn Army Depot to be shipped to other locations for other missions. (U.S. Army photo courtesy of the 839th Transportation Battalion)

405th AFSB prepares hundreds of M-ATVs for shipment to U.S.-based MP units

Leadership

Commander

COL Ernest J. Lane II
Commander
405th Army Field Support Brigade

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Command Sergeant Major

Command Sgt. Maj. Patrick Marrill

Command Sergeant Major

405th Army Field Support Brigade

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Deputy to the Commander

James "Mac" L. McGinnis
Deputy to the Commander
405th Army Field Support Brigade

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Contact us

Physical Address and Contact Numbers
Headquarters, 405th Army Field Support Brigade
Daenner Kaserne, Mannheimerstrasse, Gebaeude 3107
67657 Kaiserslautern
Commercial: +49 (0)631-143-528-2331/2337/2338 (Operations Center)
After Duty Hours Number: +49 15209003042
Mailing Address
Headquarters, 405th Army Field Support Brigade
Unit 29704
APO AE 09227

Email: usarmy.rheinland-pfalz.405-afsb.mbx.pao@army.mil
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