{"id":137352,"date":"2024-03-12T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=137352"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:07:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T10:07:51","slug":"planning-to-retire-this-year-aps-supply-expert-in-italy-passes-on-his-experience-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=137352","title":{"rendered":"Planning to retire this year, APS supply expert in Italy passes on his experience, knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Dan Gwinn is the supply officer at Army Field Support Battalion-Africa, 405th Army Field Support Brigade. Gwinn, a former master sergeant who turns 69 this September and plans to retire later this year, has been working in the Army Prepositioned Stocks business for 27 years straight.
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LIVORNO, Italy \u2013 Having worked in the Army Prepositioned Stocks business for 27 years straight, Leghorn Army Depot in Livorno is the supply officer\u2019s third APS worksite, and Army Field Support Battalion-Africa is his third battalion under the 405th Army Field Support Brigade in five years.<\/p>\n

Dan Gwinn was first assigned to Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux in Eygelshoven, Netherlands, from November 2018 to September 2020. Next, he was assigned to Army Field Support Battalion-Germany in Vilseck, Germany, from September 2020 to August 2022. And now he\u2019s at AFSBn-Africa in Livorno since August 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cI keep moving further and further south,\u201d said Gwinn, who was a contractor with the APS program in the Republic of Korea for 10 years before becoming an Army civilian employee in 2007 and continuing to work in APS. \u201cI keep trying to find warmer and warmer weather to ride my motorcycle, more.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTruthfully, I\u2019m coming up on the end of my career. I\u2019ll be 69 years old in September, so I think it\u2019s pretty much time for me to call it a day,\u201d said Gwinn, who was also a Soldier from 1974 to 1994 and retired as a master sergeant. \u201cI\u2019m planning to pull the plug at the end of this year, but it\u2019s been a great ride.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Dan Gwinn, the supply officer at Army Field Support Battalion-Africa, was also with Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux and Army Field Support Battalion-Germany. Pictured here, Gwinn moves a piece of equipment in his supply room at AFSBn-Germany in Vilseck, Germany, in 2021. While assigned to AFSBn-Germany, Gwinn received a U.S. Army Sustainment Command Highly Productive Achievement Award.
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When he\u2019s not riding his motorcycle or performing supply functions for AFSBn-Africa, Gwinn is prepping the next generation of APS professionals and passing on his nearly three decades of APS experience and knowledge. And having simultaneously served as the commander\u2019s accountable officer in addition to his normal supply duties since September, Gwinn is now training a newly hired property book officer on his responsibilities.<\/p>\n

This includes running inventories, issuing APS equipment to gaining tactical units and posting transactions in Global Combat Support System-Army, which serves as the property accountability and financial system of record for the Army, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been in the Army since I was 18 years old, so I\u2019ve basically worked property accountability and supply from 18 to this day. It\u2019s a long time. I don\u2019t know what else I would do,\u201d said Gwinn, who plans to retire in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, with his wife of 23 years and stay connected to the military by volunteering with Soldier and Army Family support organizations.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m kind of hyperactive, and I have to stay busy. I like interacting with people, so it\u2019s hard to leave, but I\u2019m at the age now where it\u2019s definitely time to enjoy a few years with my wife before I get to the point, you know, where I can\u2019t do anything,\u201d Gwinn said.<\/p>\n

Gwinn is a vital member of the AFSBn-Africa team and will be missed when he retires, said Robert Saylor, AFSBn-Africa\u2019s deputy to the commander.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Gwinn is our S-4 [supply and logistics] but triple hatted as the accountable officer and the property book holder, and he\u2019s making significant headway on the turn-in of excess items and training our new PBO,\u201d Saylor said.<\/p>\n

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\n Dan Gwinn, the supply officer at Army Field Support Battalion-Africa, 405th Army Field Support Brigade, stands beside a few Army Prepositioned Stocks supply containers at Leghorn Army Depot in Livorno, Italy, March 11.
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AFSBn-Africa is charged with receiving, maintaining, storing and issuing APS at Leghorn Army Depot as well as at locations forward \u2013 known as equipment configuration and handoff areas, or ECHAs. The battalion is also responsible for linking national logistics capabilities and providing logistics solutions to Army units and joint forces South of the Alps through U.S. Army Materiel Command\u2019s Life Cycle Management Commands.<\/p>\n

Organizations AFSBn-Africa directly supports \u2013 helping to enable readiness across two theaters of operations \u2013 are U.S. European Command, U.S. Africa Command, U.S. Army Europe and Africa, Southern European Task Force-Africa, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, and other strategic partners and allies.<\/p>\n

The 405th AFSB is assigned to U.S. Army Sustainment Command and headquartered in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The brigade provides materiel enterprise support to U.S. Forces throughout Europe and Africa \u2013 providing theater sustainment logistics; synchronizing acquisition, logistics and technology; and leveraging the AMC 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":"

Dan Gwinn is the supply officer at Army Field Support Battalion-Africa, 405th Army Field Support Brigade. Gwinn, a former master sergeant who turns 69 this September and plans to retire later this year, has been working in the Army Prepositioned Stocks business for 27 years straight. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army courtesy photo) VIEW ORIGINAL LIVORNO, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137354,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137352","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\/137352","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=137352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137358,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137352\/revisions\/137358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/137354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}