{"id":170155,"date":"2024-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=170155"},"modified":"2024-05-07T11:55:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:55:56","slug":"know-your-defender-aps-2-accountable-officer-very-important-during-defender-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=170155","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Defender: APS-2 accountable officer very important during DEFENDER 24"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Army Sgt. 1st Class Sowande Tianyvu is the primary hand receipt holder and accountable officer at Army Field Support Battalion-Africa in Livorno, Italy. During DEFENDER 24, where AFSBn-Africa was tasked with mission command of an Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 Equipment Configuration and Hand-off Area at the Libava Training Area in Libava, Czechia, Tianyvu\u2019s skills as accountable officer were extremely important.<\/p>\n

DEFENDER is the Dynamic Employment of Forces to Europe for NATO Deterrence and Enhanced Readiness, and is a U.S. European Command scheduled, U.S. Army Europe and Africa conducted exercise that consists of Saber Strike, Immediate Response, and Swift Response. DEFENDER 24 is linked to NATO\u2019s Steadfast Defender exercise, and DoD\u2019s Large Scale Global Exercise, taking place from 28 March to 31 May.<\/p>\n

DEFENDER 24 is the largest U.S. Army exercise in Europe and includes more than 17,000 U.S. and 23,000 multinational service members from more than 20 Allied and partner nations, including Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
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LIBAVA, Czechia \u2013 Accountability was key during Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 operations at the Libava Training Area in Czechia recently when the 405th Army Field Support Brigade issued an entire APS-2 cavalry regiment equipment set to a gaining tactical unit from the U.S. for DEFENDER 24.<\/p>\n

Walking the Equipment Configuration and Hand-Off Area and helping to ensure accountability of over 400 major end items \u2013 everything from M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles and M113 Armored Personnel Carriers to fuelers, wreckers and more \u2013 was Sgt. 1st Class Sowande Tianyvu.<\/p>\n

Tianyvu is the primary hand receipt holder and accountable officer at Army Field Support Battalion-Africa in Livorno, Italy. During DEFENDER 24, where AFSBn-Africa was tasked with mission command of the ECHA site in Libava, Tianyvu\u2019s skills as an accountable officer were extremely important.<\/p>\n

The 42-year-old husband and father of three has been assigned to AFSBn-Africa since August of last year. Since this is his first DEFENDER, he said he\u2019s shadowing one of the accountable officers from the Coleman APS-2 worksite in Mannheim, Germany, where the cavalry regiment equipment set is normally stored and maintained. Shadowing the AO from Mannheim, who has participated in five DEFENDER exercises, is helpful to Tianyvu in getting a good lay of the land and understanding of APS-2 ECHA operations, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m getting eyes on how he runs ECHA operations as an AO because next year AFSBn-Africa will be the one providing APS-2 equipment for DEFENDER 25 in Macedonia,\u201d said Tianyvu. \u201cThis is a good time for me to see how AO operations run here to help make next year even more effective for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main thing I\u2019m doing right now is more of a supervisory role,\u201d said Tianyvu. \u201cI\u2019m making sure that the gaining tactical unit [West Virginia National Guard\u2019s 1st Squadron, 150th Cavalry Regiment] and the contractors and everyone here are all on the same page as far as the joint layouts and inventories and what\u2019s expected, safety-wise \u2013 just keeping an eye on everything to help make sure it all runs smoothly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Army Sgt. 1st Class Sowande Tianyvu, the primary hand receipt holder and accountable officer for Army Field Support Battalion-Africa in Livorno, Italy, talks with West Virginia National Guard Soldiers from 1st Squadron, 150th Cavalry Regiment, at an Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 Equipment Configuration and Hand-off Area at the Libava Training Area in Libava, Czechia, May 3.<\/p>\n

DEFENDER is the Dynamic Employment of Forces to Europe for NATO Deterrence and Enhanced Readiness, and is a U.S. European Command scheduled, U.S. Army Europe and Africa conducted exercise that consists of Saber Strike, Immediate Response, and Swift Response. DEFENDER 24 is linked to NATO\u2019s Steadfast Defender exercise, and DoD\u2019s Large Scale Global Exercise, taking place from 28 March to 31 May. <\/p>\n

DEFENDER 24 is the largest U.S. Army exercise in Europe and includes more than 17,000 U.S. and 23,000 multinational service members from more than 20 Allied and partner nations, including Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
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\u201cMainly, I\u2019m helping to ensure property accountability is 100 percent maintained during the hand-off,\u201d said Tianyvu, who celebrated his 17th anniversary with the Army last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never thought I would ever be in Czechia. It\u2019s an amazing place, and the people here are awesome and very friendly. I\u2019m super excited,\u201d said Tianyvu, who calls Atlanta, Georgia, his home. \u201cIt\u2019s awesome to be able to travel to different places around the world and experience different cultures because that\u2019s not something people are typically able to do when living in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learning about a new country and shadowing a more experienced DEFENDER accountable officer are not the only things he\u2019s taking away from DEFENDER 24, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though I\u2019m supply, and I\u2019ve been in different units \u2013 some of this APS-2 equipment [from the Coleman worksite] I\u2019m not familiar with \u2013 some of these Bradleys and different things. I\u2019ve never been in a unit that had this type of equipment so it\u2019s awesome to come here and familiarize myself with it,\u201d Tianyvu said.<\/p>\n

DEFENDER is the Dynamic Employment of Forces to Europe for NATO Deterrence and Enhanced Readiness, and is a U.S. European Command scheduled, U.S. Army Europe and Africa conducted exercise that consists of Saber Strike, Immediate Response, and Swift Response. DEFENDER 24 is linked to NATO\u2019s Steadfast Defender exercise, and DoD\u2019s Large Scale Global Exercise, taking place from 28 March to 31 May.<\/p>\n

DEFENDER 24 is the largest U.S. Army exercise in Europe and includes more than 17,000 U.S. and 23,000 multinational service members from more than 20 Allied and partner nations, including Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

For more photos, videos and information on DEFENDER 24, go HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 405th AFSB is assigned to U.S. Army Sustainment Command and headquartered in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The brigade 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 the 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":"

Army Sgt. 1st Class Sowande Tianyvu is the primary hand receipt holder and accountable officer at Army Field Support Battalion-Africa in Livorno, Italy. During DEFENDER 24, where AFSBn-Africa was tasked with mission command of an Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 Equipment Configuration and Hand-off Area at the Libava Training Area in Libava, Czechia, Tianyvu\u2019s skills as accountable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170157,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170155","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\/170155","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=170155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170160,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170155\/revisions\/170160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}