A WORLD AWAY
“For decades, we have been in EUCOM helping with existing requirements and exercises as they come up,” said Rebecca Jessen, procurement operations officer at ACC-RI. “Te contractor has made relationships with subcontractors in the area, so that if and when things happen, contractors can mobilize resources that they have developed.”
Quickly supporting the security assistance requirements to aid Ukraine is a prime example of LOGCAP’s capabilities in setting the theater, and the proactive ability it has provided to U.S. Army Europe and Africa during the conflict.
“We’ve had something in place since March 2020 under our STT [setting the theater plan],” said Kristine Pennock, LOGCAP procuring contracting officer. “Our performance task order was awarded September 2020, and a lot of the base camps and sites were already set up under that task order.”
Over the course of the first year of the conflict, ACC-RI’s LOGCAP EUCOM team has provided base life support to over two dozen sites from Latvia to Romania. Tese locations provided quality services at impressive speed to thousands of U.S. Soldiers
as they deployed to Europe to deter further Russian aggression. Tis included standing up over a dozen new locations, many with no previous infrastructure.
Additionally, the LOGCAP team provided services to unload the aircraft transporting all classes of materiel, as well as the infra- structure the Security Assistance Group ‒ Ukraine needed to provide aid to Ukraine.
ACC-RI has also supported ASC’s Army Pre-positioned Stocks-2 (APS-2) mission, executing numerous requirements stationed to supply, maintain and transport equipment in and around the area. APS-2 is comprised of combined-arms, battalion-sized groups of vehicles and equipment positioned in Europe designed to equip Army regionally-aligned forces when they rotate into theater for training, disaster relief, theater security or contin- gency operations.
“Te prepositioned stock is located in Germany and it is designed to enable units to deploy into theater and fall in on preposi- tioned equipment at a moment’s notice,” said Maj. Neidas Cezar, EAGLE procuring contracting officer. “Te task order, in effect since 2016, is designed to issue equipment to units that came from either CONUS [within the continental U.S.] or OCONUS [outside the continental U.S.] locations.”
In February 2022, the U.S. Army ramped up the rapid response mission, with thousands of service members deploying to Germany and Poland, said Kylah Rasche, an ACC-RI EAGLE branch chief. To meet this need, APS-2 activated for the first time in its history.
Operating under an aggressive timeline with copious visibility and risk, Rasche said the APS-2 contracting team jumped into action expediently and effectively drawing materiel in support of the deployments. Hundreds of vehicles and equipment pieces from their respective APS-2 sites were pushed out to meet the needs of these service members.
LIFE, HEALTH, SAFETY
Soldiers return to their sleeping area from a dining facility tent in March 2022 at Mielec, Poland, where a full-service life support area has been established, thanks to Logistics Civil Augmentation Program contracts under the command and control of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade. (Photo by Lt. Col. Alan Manzo, 405th Army Field Support Brigade – Europe & Africa)
Working in coordination with the APS sites, strategic support areas, ports and airports, the Red Ball Express is a transporta- tion plan designed to deliver critical maintenance equipment and other requested supplies within four calendar days throughout the EUCOM area of operations, according to Rasche. Te Red Ball Express provides transport of parts, supplies and equipment from locations throughout Europe, expediting equipment repair to support the mission. Since July 2022, more than 298 Red Ball Express missions have been completed.
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