{"id":140722,"date":"2024-03-28T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=140722"},"modified":"2024-03-29T07:44:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T07:44:52","slug":"former-signal-and-public-affairs-soldier-now-serving-as-afsbn-germanys-it-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=140722","title":{"rendered":"Former signal and public affairs Soldier now serving as AFSBn-Germany\u2019s IT expert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Louis Lamar knows a thing or two about communications. The former signal support systems specialist and public affairs sergeant with 15 years of active-duty service, is one of two information technology specialists at Army Field Support Battalion-Germany in Vilseck, Germany.
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\n Louis Lamar, an information technology specialist at Army Field Support Battalion-Germany, works on a copy machine at the battalion headquarters in Vilseck, Germany. Lamar, who was a Soldier for 15 years, also worked as a contractor for the Marines and the Army before becoming an Army civilian employee in 2019.
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VILSECK, Germany \u2013 Originally a signal support systems specialist and public affairs sergeant for 15 years, Louis Lamar knows a thing or two about communications. Knowing that, having him on the Army Field Support Battalion-Germany team shouldn\u2019t be shocking headline news.<\/p>\n

The information technology specialist who\u2019s been assigned to AFSBn-Germany since August of 2022 is responsible for the day-to-day IT operations at the battalion headquarters in Vilseck as well as the Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in D\u00fclmen, Germany. In addition, his battalion will be assuming mission command of the Coleman APS-2 worksite in Mannheim, Germany, later this year, so the IT expert is also helping to plan all the communications systems support requirements for that site, as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just me and one other person at the battalion. We do everything from account maintenance to network issues, trouble tickets, cyber security training, and desk telephone and smartphone support \u2013 all of it,\u201d he said. \u201cFor example, right now one of the things we\u2019re doing is prepping the D\u00fclmen worksite for the upcoming DEFENDER 24 exercise because they don\u2019t currently have an IT person on site.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lately, Lamar is staying busy working the communications plans for DEFENDER 24, ordering supplies for D\u00fclmen, and establishing the fiscal year 2025 budget for new equipment and supplies. He\u2019s also helping with the new Voyager kit they received so his battalion will have secure and non-secure communication capabilities quickly and efficiently \u2013 anywhere, any time. The Voyager is a scalable, deployable data networking system that provides computing and communications capabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing here is a career broadening experience,\u201d said the 42-year-old native of Atlanta, Georgia. \u201cI\u2019ve learned quite a bit. It\u2019s very interesting to see how sustainment operations work, and I have had a couple of great mentors, like the former brigade IT director, Toni Helman, as well as the current director, Jenny Chavez.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lamar, who medically retired as a staff sergeant in public affairs in 2014, started out as a contractor with the Marines following his active-duty career and finishing his master\u2019s degree in organizational leadership from Central Michigan University. After about a year with the Marines, he then worked as a contractor for the Army for three additional years before accepting a job offer as an Army civilian employee in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just glad for the opportunity to come here,\u201d said Lamar, who was living and working in Hawaii for 12 years before moving to Germany. \u201cYou know, I\u2019m happy I can broaden my career here and see how the Army works in Europe while learning the sustainment piece and helping out with all the APS-2 operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Germany battalion is one of four battalions assigned to the 405th Army Field Support Brigade. In addition to its APS-2 mission at D\u00fclmen and soon to be mission at Coleman, AFSBn-Germany is responsible for providing and coordinating tactical and operational sustainment to ensure theater readiness and enable commanders to conduct a full range of military operations.<\/p>\n

The APS-2 program Germany battalion helps manage enhances U.S. Army Europe and Africa\u2019s readiness and capability to support the warfighter by providing turn-key APS-2 packages ready to deploy at a moment\u2019s notice. The APS-2 program is a key component of U.S. Army Europe and Africa\u2019s power projection and warfighter readiness missions.<\/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 U.S. Army Materiel Command\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":"

1 \/ 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption \u2013 Louis Lamar, an information technology specialist at Army Field Support Battalion-Germany, pulls a piece of IT equipment off the shelf at the battalion headquarters in Vilseck, Germany. Lamar, who has worked at AFSBn-Germany since August of 2022, is responsible for the day-to-day IT operations at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140724,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140722","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\/140722","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=140722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140728,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140722\/revisions\/140728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}