ROTATIONAL READINESS
TAKING STOCK LTC William J. Shinn Jr., commander of AFSBn – Germany, escorts COL Thomas Matsel, G3 of the 7th Army Joint Multinational Training Command, during a Jan. 21 inspection of vehicles and equipment that are part of EAS in Grafenwoehr. EAS has been situated at the Grafenwoehr Training Area to allow a succession of rotational brigades to draw on it for training and contingencies. AFSBn – Germany is providing AMC oversight of EAS. (U.S. Army photo by Markus Rauchenberger)
and prescribed load list] began to arrive prior to the establishment of facilities or the hiring of the workforce,” resulting in reliance on borrowed military manpower and double or triple material handling of equipment and supplies.
Te major challenge unfolded when hundreds of pallets of EAS equipment began arriving on AFSBn – Germany’s doorstep in June 2013, before EAS workforce and facilities had actually been funded and almost eight months before the complete workforce was in place.
As often in the Army, necessity proved to be the mother of invention. AFSBn – Germany and the 405th Support Operations Branch began to improvise, relying heavily on teamwork with other units and organizations within the Grafenwoehr garrison. Elements of the 21st Teater Sustainment Command and the Bavarian military community stepped up to help meet the challenge and move the EAS program forward.
Te Teater Logistics Support Center – Europe’s (TLSC-E’s) maintenance activity in Vilseck placed 47 maintenance and materiel management employees under the operational control of AFSBn – Germany. “EAS was the consummate team effort,” said Roscoe.
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“USAREUR provided TLSC-E mechanic labor without red tape and hurdles and saved us all from missing the target.”
AFSBn – Germany dedicated its S-4, Curtis Dabney, later promoted to the battalion support operations officer, to coordinate with tenant units for help in offloading, receiving, inspecting and bringing to record arriving equipment and spare parts. Dabney arranged for forklifts, coordinated container movers, and obtained escorts for the FedEx, DHL and other service drivers delivering pallets from CONUS, Italy, Korea and Kuwait.
Te 405th Support Operations Branch EAS project manager, Robin Dothager, completed coordination for installation of
the logistics automation Army War
Reserve Deployment System (AWRDS), a necessity in establishing APS property accountability and issuing equipment.
CONCLUSION Te Army and USAREUR
have
embarked on a new era that will rely more heavily on deploying troops from the United States to Europe for contingencies and training. Certainly, the weapons and equipment comprising EAS will remain the materiel cornerstone for these rotational forces. When the 405th AFSB looks to the future, the
July–September 2014
brigade’s requirement to meet any and all EAS challenges could not be clearer or more compelling.
For more information, contact Curtis R. Dabney at DSN 314-476-9840 or
Curtis.r.dabney.civ@
mail.mil; or Michael J. Printer, deputy commander of AFSBn – Germany, at DSN 314-476-3003 or
Michael.j.printer.civ@
mail.mil.
LTC WILLIAM J. SHINN JR. is the com- mander of AFSBn – Germany at Vilseck. He served previously as the S-3 for the 10th Sustainment Brigade – Afghanistan. He has an M.S. in adult and continuing education from Kansas State University, an M.S. in health and exercise science from California University of Pennsyl- vania, and a B.S. in health and physical education from Lock Haven University.
MR. RONNIE LAWSON, deputy sup- port operations officer with the 405th AFSB, Kaiserslautern, been a logistics assistance
Germany, has representative
(LAR), a member of the AMC Logistics Assistance Program, since 2002. His ten- ure as a LAR includes assignments with five AFSBns and multiple deployments to Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. He is Level III certified in life- cycle logistics.
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