According to the 405th Military Area Help Brigade commander’s primary precedence to regionally align the brigade’s 4 battalions and put together for future Military Prepositioned Inventory-2 operations in Poland, about 2,000 autos, containers and gear items have been moved from north of the Alps to south of the Alps within the final three weeks. And over the following few weeks, the 405th AFSB’s Military Area Help Battalion Africa at Leghorn Military Depot, Italy, expects to obtain about 4,000 extra APS-2 gear items and autos from the north, mentioned Maj. Duane Dumlao, AFSBn Africa help operations officer.
As of right now, AFSBn Africa has acquired 162 line haul vehicles carrying 1,953 autos and gear items shipped from APS-2 worksites in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, mentioned Capt. Jeffrey Li, AFSBn Africa plans and operations officer. This contains rolling inventory corresponding to Humvees, trailers, ambulances, mills, gas vehicles and medium tactical autos in addition to 20-foot containers and medical gear. By shifting all these autos and gear items south of the Alps, AFSBn Africa is releasing up accessible house on the brigade’s northern APS-2 worksites and on the similar time offering important capabilities to the U.S. Military Southern European Activity Power, Africa and the 173rd Airborne Brigade Fight Crew.
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“The principle goal of what we’re supporting right here and the rationale why this APS-2 gear is being shipped south of the Alps is to help the brand new APS-2 theatre technique and supply capabilities to greatest help two Protection Division Combatant Instructions,” mentioned Larry Torres, 405th AFSB director of operations.
“These are extremely vital strikes in help of our mission as an influence projection platform,” mentioned Robert Saylor, AFSBn Africa deputy to the commander.
Battalion Africa is a really small group with a really giant operational footprint – a small variety of Troopers and civilians taking over an extremely giant mission. Leghorn Military Depot and AFSBn Africa are essential to Nationwide Protection and to the help of U.S. pursuits. The planning, preparation, motion and reception of all this APS-2 from a number of worksites within the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany to Leghorn Military Depot in Italy – sufficient gear to outfit a base help battalion and a lightweight infantry battalion – has been a complete group effort.
Concerned within the mission are components of the brigade headquarters in addition to components from all 4 of its battalions – AFSBn Mannheim, AFSBn Benelux, AFSBn Germany and AFSBn Africa.
Brigade operations did an impressive job holding the AFSBn Africa group updated on the motion of all these line haul vehicles as they crossed a number of borders and a number of checkpoints alongside a 1,400 kilometer convoy route by means of as many as 5 nations. Over the following few weeks, AFSBn Africa personnel will proceed to obtain the extra autos and gear items from north of the Alps and proceed to stock and retailer the autos and gear in its amenities at Leghorn Military Depot. The 405th AFSB’s AFSBn Africa at Leghorn Military Depot is U.S. Military Europe and Africa’s premier energy projection platform south of the Alps supporting each the European and the African theatres of operations.
The 405th AFSB is assigned to U.S. Military Sustainment Command and below the operational management of the twenty first Theater Sustainment Command, U.S. Military Europe and Africa. The brigade is headquartered in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and offers materiel enterprise help to U.S. Forces all through Europe and Africa – offering theater sustainment logistics; synchronizing acquisition, logistics and expertise; and leveraging the U.S. Military Materiel Command’s materiel enterprise to help joint forces.
