APS-2 equipment, vehicles issued to units in Estonia for DEFENDER-Europe 21
APS-2 equipment, vehicles issued to units in Estonia for DEFENDER-Europe 21
TAPA, Estonia – A Dutch maintainer assigned to the 405th Army Field Support Brigade ground guides a vehicle into the Equipment Configuration Handling Area’s issue grid at Tapa Barracks, Estonia, during DEFENDER-Europe 21. The 405th AFSB’s Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux was responsible for the ECHA site and APS-2 issue at Tapa Barracks during the exercise. (U.S. Army photo by Rob Vankan, APS-2 Eygelshoven)
APS-2 equipment, vehicles issued to units in Estonia for DEFENDER-Europe 21
By Cameron Porter, 405th AFSB Public Affairs
A former World War II airfield in rural Oxfordshire went back in time on Tuesday as filming continued on the set of forthcoming miniseries Masters Of The Air.
The new drama, the latest instalment in the Band Of Brothers series, is based on the exploits of the Eighth Air Force of the United States Army, who famously brought the war straight to Hitler s doorstep by dropping bombs on Berlin.
With work already well underway on the show, an adaptation of Donald L. Miller s 2007 novel, a replica Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was seen getting into position on a large airfield in Abingdon, some six miles south of Oxford.
How commercial satellite constellations fit into the Army’s future tactical network designs 4 hours ago U.S. Army Paratroopers assigned to 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, assemble a satellite antenna in 2019 in Slovenia. The Army is looking for smaller satellite terminals for low-Earth and medium-Earth orbit capabilities. (Paolo Bovo/U.S. Army) JOINT BASE MYER‐HENDERSON HALL, Va. The U.S. Army will begin implementing advanced satellite communications technology to increase network resiliency as part of its next iteration of tactical network tools. Adding low-Earth orbit and medium-Earth orbit capabilities commercial satellite constellations into the service’s tactical network repertoire is part of the service’s effort to shift to dispersed battlefields, instead of the fixed fiber communications and forward operating bases that defined the last two decades of war in the Middle East.
8 FORT LEE, Va. (May 3, 2021) – Sydney A. Smith was inducted into the Senior Executive Service and at the same time became the new Army Logistics University president during a ceremony April 30 at the Army Logistics University green auditorium.
She is poised to oversee the university’s mission of providing professional education and leader development for military and civilian logisticians and related professionals from the Army, joint, interagency and international communities, to include sustainment and logistics, operations research, and acquisition leader education and training programs.
A native of Abingdon, Smith was selected for the SES in April. She replaced Michael K. Williams, who died May 27, 2020.
1 TAPA, Estonia – DEFENDER-Europe 21 involves about 28,000 U.S., NATO and partner militaries from 26 nations conducting live fire exercises, airborne operations, missile defense activities and a multitude of complex, bilateral operations simultaneously.
To outfit an operation of this scale requires a lot of equipment. Several hundred pieces of equipment were shipped to Europe from the U.S. by cargo vessel, but over 1,000 pieces were drawn from the 405th Army Field Support Brigade’s Army Prepositioned Stock-2 sites here in Europe.
Rhona Habets, a heavy wheeled vehicle mechanic foreman at the APS-2 site in Eygelshoven, Netherlands, said her team helped to prepare all the vehicles for movement to Estonia, to include getting the vehicles certified by German inspectors for transport across international borders.