{"id":10703,"date":"2023-05-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=10703"},"modified":"2023-05-16T06:50:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T06:50:03","slug":"missile-systems-expert-assigned-to-405th-afsb-selected-as-amcom-lar-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=10703","title":{"rendered":"Missile systems expert assigned to 405th AFSB selected as AMCOM LAR of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Will Owens is a logistics assistance representatives assigned to the 405th Army Field Support Brigade stationed in Ansbach, Germany. The 405th AFSB LAR who primarily supports the Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 program and the 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment was recently selected as the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command 2022 LAR of the Year.
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ANSBACH, Germany \u2013 The U.S. Army Materiel Command logistics assistance representatives assigned to the 405th Army Field Support Brigade in Europe have been extremely busy over the past 15 months supporting U.S. and NATO operations in direct assistance to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

With all that work it\u2019s nice to be recognized, and Will Owens knows this better than anyone. The 405th AFSB LAR who primarily supports the Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 program and the 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment was recently selected as the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command 2022 LAR of the Year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just found out last week,\u201d Owens said. \u201cIt\u2019s a huge honor; it\u2019s the biggest thing that\u2019s ever happened to me in my career.\u201d<\/p>\n

With over 40 years of experience working on missile systems, Owens\u2019 primary mission is to advise the commanders and units he supports \u201cwhether that be wrench turning or training,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A top-tier expert in his field, Owens is qualified on the Hawk surface-to-air missile system, Avenger missile system, the man-portable Javelin, Sentinel radar system, Shadow, Puma, Raven and now the Mobile Short Range Air Defense, or M-SHORAD. The 5th Bn., 4th ADA, who Owens primarily supports, was the first battalion in the Army to test, receive and field the M-SHORAD system.<\/p>\n

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\n Will Owens, a U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command logistics assistance representatives assigned to the 405th Army Field Support Brigade, tests a transmitter control unit on a AN\/MPQ-64 Sentinel Radar System. Owens was recently selected as the AMCOM 2022 LAR of the Year.
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\u201cI try to cater the support I provide more towards training so it\u2019s not just a win for me. It\u2019s more of a win for the Soldiers. Advice, teach and mentor \u2013 that\u2019s my primary responsibility,\u201d said the retired Army sergeant first class missile maintainer with 22 years of active-duty experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot taking anything away from the warrant officers or the noncommissioned officers \u2013 I was one \u2013 but my background brings another level of experience and expertise,\u201d said Owens, who\u2019s worked as an AMC LAR for 15 years, five in Ansbach. \u201cI\u2019m embedded into their air defense world, and I\u2019m there every day as a force multiplier.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it works both ways, said the 61-year-old native of Gary, Indiana.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we as LARs get back from these young warrant officers and Soldiers is that new technology that they\u2019re more exposed to \u2026 so it\u2019s a little bit of a give and take,\u201d said the father of four and grandfather of four more.<\/p>\n

Owens, who holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in computer information systems from Columbia College and an associate\u2019s degree in general studies and missile maintenance from Calhoun Community College, said his number one motto is education and hard work pays off.<\/p>\n

\u201cI received many congratulations from my friends, my family and my peers. They know I\u2019m a workaholic so I think they kind of expected this,\u201d said Owens. \u201cI want to thank my command and all the people who had faith in me. I will continue to support the warfighters. Nothing is going to change that. Because I got this badge bestowed upon me, now I must work even harder. I must continue to shine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Estonian soldiers and 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command Soldiers pose for a photo with a Maneuver Short Range Air Defense Stryker after a successful live fire training event on the Gulf of Finland during Exercise Saber Strike 22 in March of 2022. Also with the Soldiers (bottom left, kneeling) is Will Owens, a U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command logistics assistance representative assigned to the 405th Army Field Support Brigade. Owens was recently selected as the 2022 AMCOM LAR of the Year.
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LARs are Army civilians serving in motor pools, aircraft hangars, maintenance shops and offices around the world. Highly trained, they bring more than two dozen specialty skills to Army equipment readiness requirements. They are part of the U.S. Army Sustainment Command\u2019s global network of Army Field Support Brigades and are linked to every echelon of the Army in the field. The 405th AFSB has several LARs with multiple specialties assigned across Europe.<\/p>\n

The 405th AFSB is assigned to ASC and under the operational control of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command, U.S. Army Europe and Africa. The brigade is headquartered in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and provides materiel enterprise support to U.S. Forces throughout Europe and Africa \u2013 providing theater sustainment logistics; synchronizing acquisition, logistics and technology; and leveraging AMC\u2019s materiel enterprise to support joint forces. For more information on the 405th AFSB, visit the official website<\/a> and the official Facebook site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will Owens is a logistics assistance representatives assigned to the 405th Army Field Support Brigade stationed in Ansbach, Germany. The 405th AFSB LAR who primarily supports the Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 program and the 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment was recently selected as the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command 2022 LAR of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10705,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10709,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703\/revisions\/10709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}