{"id":141095,"date":"2024-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=141095"},"modified":"2024-04-01T10:29:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T10:29:09","slug":"aps-2-tool-and-parts-attendant-in-italy-understands-why-teamwork-is-numero-uno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=141095","title":{"rendered":"APS-2 tool and parts attendant in Italy understands why teamwork is numero uno"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Daniele Argenti (top center) understands the importance of teamwork. As a lifelong soccer player and now trainer, Argenti currently coaches a team of Italian teenagers. But that\u2019s just during his free time. At work, Argenti, the tool and parts attendant and supply material handler at Army Field Support Battalion-Africa, said he understands why teamwork is important, too.
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LIVORNO, Italy \u2013\u00a0Daniele Argenti understands the importance of teamwork. As a lifelong soccer player and now trainer, Argenti currently coaches a group of Italian teenagers where teamwork is numero uno. But that\u2019s just during his free time. At work, Argenti also understands why teamwork is number one.<\/p>\n

The tool and parts attendant and supply material handler with Army Field Support Battalion-Africa at Leghorn Army Depot in Livorno said teamwork is the key to winning \u2013 whether that\u2019s Inter Milan, his favorite professional soccer team, which is consistently ranked number one \u2013 or the Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite where he works.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe in being a good team member, on and off the field, at work or at play. I like being a part of a team, and it gives me a lot of pride to support all the mechanics on my team,\u201d said Argenti, who has been the tool and parts attendant at the APS-2 worksite in Livorno for over five years.<\/p>\n

Argenti, who started working at Leghorn in 1992, said he understands how important his job is to the mechanics and the people on his team. Before being assigned to the tool and parts shop and working as a supply handler, Argenti was working as a mechanic, himself, repairing and maintaining APS-2 vehicles and equipment sets.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd before I was working for the Army, I was working as a mechanic for a large automotive dealership in Livorno,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen somebody told me the Army had vacant mechanic positions at Leghorn, I applied, and I was selected.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Daniele Argenti is the tool and parts attendant and supply material handler at Army Field Support Battalion-Africa, 405th Army Field Support Brigade. Argenti said teamwork is the key in winning, whether that\u2019s Inter Milan, his favorite professional soccer team, which is consistently ranked number one, or an Army organization like AFSBn-Africa where he works.
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\n Daniele Argenti, the tool and parts attendant and supply material handler at Army Field Support Battalion-Africa, checks supply request forms at Leghorn Army Deport. In addition to his daily duties handling supplies and delivering parts, Argenti also manages the non-tactical vehicles that are used to support operations at Leghorn.
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Last Thursday, Argenti said he delivered a new transmission for a Humvee to his team of APS-2 mechanics. That was the largest item he delivered that day, but daily he delivers 30 to 35 repair or replacement parts to his team, sometimes more.<\/p>\n

In addition to his daily duties handling supplies and delivering parts, Argenti also manages the non-tactical vehicles that are used to support operations at the APS-2 site. He also maintains a bench stock of replacement parts, and for the special tools that aren\u2019t part of the mechanics\u2019 toolboxes \u2013 such as test sets and other high value items \u2013 Argenti maintains possession of them and signs them out to his team when asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love working here and supporting my team. We have an amazing group of professionals, and I have a great relationship with all of them. And sometimes I even get the opportunity to work with my team in other countries,\u201d added Argenti, who said he deployed to Poland for the DEFENDER 23 exercise last year to help receive APS-2 equipment back from tactical Army units at the end of the exercise.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to say thank you to the U.S. Army for giving me the opportunity to work here, 32 years ago. I really appreciate it,\u201d said Argenti who is married and has a son and will turn 55 years old on April 8.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

AFSBn-Africa, one of four battalions under the command and control of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade, is charged with receiving, maintaining, and storing APS-2 at Leghorn Army Depot, which includes 16 warehouses with 749,000 square feet of humidity-controlled storage plus four maintenance facilities as well as 1.5 million square feet of outside storage. In addition to APS-2 operations at Leghorn, AFSBn-Africa issues APS-2 equipment sets at locations forward \u2013 known as equipment configuration and handoff areas, or ECHAs.<\/p>\n

AFSBn-Africa is also responsible for linking national logistics capabilities and providing logistics solutions to Army units and joint forces, primarily in Africa, through U.S. Army Materiel Command\u2019s Life Cycle Management Commands \u2013 Aviation and Missile Command, Communications and Electronics Command, Joint Munitions Command, and Tank-automotive and Armaments Command. These LCMC Logistics Assistance Representatives are subject-matter expertise on all of the Army\u2019s fielded systems, assisting Soldiers with troubleshooting and early detection of faults. LARs from AFSBn-Africa serve side-by-side with supported tactical units and deploy in support of a multitude of operations, primarily in Africa but also across Europe.<\/p>\n

Organizations AFSBn-Africa directly support \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":"

Daniele Argenti (top center) understands the importance of teamwork. As a lifelong soccer player and now trainer, Argenti currently coaches a team of Italian teenagers. But that\u2019s just during his free time. At work, Argenti, the tool and parts attendant and supply material handler at Army Field Support Battalion-Africa, said he understands why teamwork is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141097,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141095","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\/141095","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=141095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141101,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141095\/revisions\/141101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/141097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}