{"id":221580,"date":"2024-07-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=221580"},"modified":"2024-07-12T10:31:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T10:31:05","slug":"take-your-child-to-work-catapults-lrc-stuttgart-employee-to-a-career-of-her-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=221580","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Take your child to work\u2019 catapults LRC Stuttgart employee to a career of her own"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Dahlak Ghebrelul is a contracting officer technical representative in the transportation division at Logistics Readiness Center Stuttgart, 405th Army Field Support Brigade. She is responsible for contractual oversite of two SATO offices in Stuttgart that servicemembers and their families stationed in the U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart community use to book airline flights for temporary duty travel and permanent change of station moves.
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STUTTGART, Germany \u2013 Take your child to work day is a national program that exposes children to future job possibilities and the value of education while helping to foster the special bond between parents and their children. Although it\u2019s officially held on the fourth Thursday of April in the U.S. each year, it can be done any day, anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n

Dahlak Ghebrelul remembers when her dad would occasionally take her to his work. Originally from Eritrea, just north of Djibouti in East Africa, he immigrated to Germany in the mid-1980s and worked for the U.S. Army in Stuttgart for over 40 years, including many years with Logistics Readiness Center Stuttgart.<\/p>\n

\u201cLRC Stuttgart is a special place for me because my dad worked here, too,\u201d said Ghebrelul, a contracting officer technical representative with LRC Stuttgart\u2019s transportation division. \u201cWhen I was little, he used to bring me to work sometimes. I was fascinated. I was like \u2018wow, they\u2019re speaking another language. How is this possible?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Ghebrelul said her father, Amine, worked as a transportation counselor at LRC Stuttgart for several years, assisting servicemembers and their families with their household goods shipments and working with the transportation providers to ensure deliveries and pickups were on time and in good order.<\/p>\n

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\n Amine Ghebrelul (on left) used to bring his daughter to work occasionally when he was a transportation counselor at Logistics Readiness Center Stuttgart. Now his daughter, Dahlak Ghebrelul (on right), works at LRC Stuttgart, herself, as a contracting officer technical representative in the transportation division.
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That\u2019s not far off from what Ghebrelul is doing now. Also at LRC Stuttgart working in transportation, Ghebrelul is responsible for contractual oversite of two SATO offices in Stuttgart. She and a fellow coworker oversee eight SATO contractors, helping to ensure servicemembers and their families in Stuttgart are properly booked on airline flights for temporary duty travel and permanent change of station moves. One SATO office they oversee supports personnel assigned to U.S. European Command and the other supports U.S. Africa Command.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe manage the annual contracts for SATO. We work in the same building as them. Daily, we work closely with both SATO customer service teams, providing oversight and support as needed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we help with any needed exception to policy memos. For example, a family may need an ETP when flying with their pets,\u201d said the 28-year-old German local national employee, who recently married and calls Esslingen am Neckar, just outside of Stuttgart, her home.<\/p>\n

Thanks mainly to her dad and his \u2018take your child to work\u2019 resourcefulness, Ghebrelul said she is very happy to now be an LRC Stuttgart employee, too. She started at the transportation motor pool in November of 2021, however, after a few months she left LRC Stuttgart to work at U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart\u2019s housing office.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut my heart told me LRC Stuttgart is where I belong,\u201d she said, jumping at the chance to go back and work there as a plans and operations assistant. Now back in transportation with over 2.5 years at LRC Stuttgart, total, Ghebrelul said it feels like home and the people there feel like family.<\/p>\n

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\n Dahlak Ghebrelul, a Logistics Readiness Center Stuttgart contracting officer technical representative in the transportation division, fills her plate at one of LRC Stuttgart\u2019s special events designed to bring employees together and build the team. \u201cWe\u2019re just a really great team that works well together, doing our best to provide good customer service support to our community members,\u201d she said.
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\u201cIt\u2019s just a preference,\u201d said the graduate of Stuttgart University who holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in teaching. \u201cI think sometimes where you started out has a special place in your heart, and that\u2019s certainly true for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have an awesome team. We always have great get-togethers and functions. We\u2019re just a really great team that works well together serving the community and doing our best to provide good customer service support to our community members,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

LRC Stuttgart is one of eight LRCs under the command and control of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade. LRCs execute installation logistics support and services to include supply, maintenance, and transportation as well as clothing issue facility operations, hazardous material management, personal property and household goods, passenger travel, non-tactical vehicle and garrison equipment management, and property book operations. When it comes to providing day-to-day installation services, LRC Stuttgart directs, manages, and coordinates a variety of operations and activities in support of USAG Stuttgart.<\/p>\n

LRC Stuttgart reports to the 405th AFSB, which 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":"

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