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AFSBn-Germany ECHA ops in Lithuania

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)

DEFENDER-Europe ECHA ops in Graf

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