{"id":215547,"date":"2024-07-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=215547"},"modified":"2024-07-03T08:02:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T08:02:06","slug":"when-not-collecting-fragrances-or-at-soccer-matches-basops-employee-enjoys-his-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=215547","title":{"rendered":"When not collecting fragrances or at soccer matches, BASOPS employee enjoys his work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Jens Heil has a unique hobby. The 405th Army Field Support Brigade Base Support Operations Transportation local national employee who\u2019s worked for both the Army and the Air Force for almost 20 years, collects colognes, fragrances and perfumes.
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KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany \u2013 The 405th Army Field Support Brigade\u2019s Base Support Operations Transportation Division manages the inbound and outbound transportation shipping appointments for service members and their families assigned to units and organizations within the U.S. European Command area of responsibility.<\/p>\n

The team of experts works with the transportation service providers to ensure service members\u2019 household goods shipments are professionally and safely delivered to and from the European theater. The team is comprised of host nation local national employees and Army civilians, and one of those experts is Jens Heil.<\/p>\n

For the past 2.5 years, Heil has been working side-by-side with the BASOPS Transportation examiners, responsible for ensuring all the transportation invoices submitted by the transportation service providers through the Defense Personal Property System are 100 percent accurate and error free.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe invoices we receive are from inbound and outbound shipments. If something is not correct, we\u2019ll dispute it or we\u2019ll let them know we need this document or that document to validate the accuracy of the invoice,\u201d Heil said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can happen. Humans sometimes make mistakes,\u201d Heil said, \u201cbut we\u2019re there to help. We\u2019re there to help catch any of their mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we do is really important because, you know, in the end it costs the government money, and it\u2019s our responsibility to ensure the government only pays what\u2019s required and doesn\u2019t overpay,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\n Jens Heil, who works for Base Support Operations Transportation, 405th Army Field Support Brigade, is a lifelong resident of Kaiserslautern and a big fan of the FCK soccer team. Pictured, here, Heil takes a photo with a former FCK professional soccer player who now works for the Sky Television Network, reporting on soccer matches.
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The 43-year-old, whose home is just a few miles from Daenner Kaserne where he works, said he enjoys going to professional soccer matches in the evenings and on the weekends. In fact, he\u2019s a big fan of FCK and a proud season ticket holder, he said.<\/p>\n

Married to his wife, Tatiana, for 11 years \u2013 together they enjoy traveling to places like Italy, France and Spain where he often pursues another passion \u2013 collecting colognes, perfumes and fragrances. He also does a lot of fragrance collecting online and has a coworker at BASOPS Transportation who enjoys it as much as he does. In fact, they often collect together, he said.<\/p>\n

Heil enjoys his job with BASOPS Transportation, even though it can be difficult at times. Sometimes situations develop that are not easily resolvable, he said, but that\u2019s when he feels most needed and enjoys what he does the most.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what I like best,\u201d he said. It\u2019s the challenge, for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heil, who is a lifelong resident of Kaiserslautern, first started working at Ramstein Air Base in 2003, and for 10 years he worked with security forces at Ramstein and at Vogelweh.<\/p>\n

Due to a reduction in forces mandate, Heil was let go but a couple years later he was rehired at Theater Logistics Support Center-Europe with the Army. Within a year, he took another job at the Kleber Post Office as a postal clerk and after nearly five years there he accepted a position at BASOPS Transportation, 405th Army Field Support Brigade.<\/p>\n

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\n Jens Heil is an employee with the 405th Army Field Support Brigade\u2019s Base Support Operations Transportation Division. He works side-by-side with BASOPS Transportation examiners, responsible for ensuring all the transportation invoices submitted by the transportation service providers through the Defense Personal Property System are 100 percent accurate and error free.
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With its Consolidated Personal Property Shipping Office and European Official Travel Branch, BASOPS Transportation is a field operating activity under the 405th AFSB, providing back office support functions for personal property shipping, official travel services and quality control disciplinary actions for U.S. military communities in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, and more.<\/p>\n

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

Jens Heil has a unique hobby. The 405th Army Field Support Brigade Base Support Operations Transportation local national employee who\u2019s worked for both the Army and the Air Force for almost 20 years, collects colognes, fragrances and perfumes. (Photo Credit: Cameron Porter) VIEW ORIGINAL KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany \u2013 The 405th Army Field Support Brigade\u2019s Base Support […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215549,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215547","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\/215547","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=215547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215553,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215547\/revisions\/215553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}