{"id":225837,"date":"2024-07-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=225837"},"modified":"2024-07-16T10:34:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T10:34:05","slug":"lrc-employee-lifelong-baumholder-resident-says-army-is-her-towns-biggest-employer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=225837","title":{"rendered":"LRC employee, lifelong Baumholder resident says Army is her town\u2019s biggest employer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Christina Dringelstein is a dispatcher at the Smith Barracks transportation motor pool in Baumholder, Germany. Before working with Logistics Readiness Center Rheinland-Pfalz as a dispatcher, she was a salesclerk at the Main Exchange. The lifelong resident of Baumholder said the Army is her town\u2019s biggest employer.
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BAUMHOLDER, Germany \u2013 Growing up in Baumholder and living in the area her whole life, Christina Dringelstein is accustomed to Americans and the U.S. Army. The dispatcher at the transportation motor pool on Smith Barracks said if you\u2019re from Baumholder, this is normal. The Army is Baumholder\u2019s biggest employer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve lived here my whole life. I enjoy working for the U.S. Army. I\u2019ve supported Soldiers and their Families for almost 20 years \u2013 first at the PX and now with the 405th. The U.S. Army is my town\u2019s biggest employer,\u201d said Dringelstein, who worked at the Main Exchange for 15 years as a salesclerk and is now with Logistics Readiness Center Rheinland-Pfalz, 405th Army Field Support Brigade.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like my work very much. It\u2019s a combination of things. I like the people we support. I like my colleagues, and it\u2019s a good organization. My bosses are always very helpful. If there\u2019s a problem or a concern, it gets resolved every time,\u201d said the 55-year-old resident of Reichenbach, a small village nearby Baumholder.<\/p>\n

Dringelstein said her work can be challenging but equally so, fulfilling. She said for the first half of 2024, she was the only person working as a dispatcher at the motor pool. Responsible for nearly 200 non-tactical vehicles, the workload was heavy, she said, but since June there\u2019s now another LRC Rheinland-Pfalz employee assisting her.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe provide an important quality service to our customers, daily. We renew their dispatches. We take care of their vehicles. If there\u2019s an issue or services are due, we make sure they get into the shop to be looked at. We handle the winter\/summer tire program. We complete multiple reports and administrative paperwork on our computers, and more,\u201d said Dringelstein, who has been an LRC Rheinland-Pfalz employee for over four years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dringelstein said one of her biggest customers is the Directorate of Public Works from U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz. No longer does the transportation motor pool support vehicles directly assigned to Soldiers. As part of a Europe-wide divestiture initiative last October, these vehicles \u2013 once Dringelstein\u2019s responsibility \u2013 are now directly assigned to various units stationed in the Baumholder community.<\/p>\n

But in a roundabout way, Dringelstein said she\u2019s still helping them and still supporting Soldiers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe support USAG Rheinland-Pfalz, who is the organization responsible for the Baumholder Military Community, and they take care of our Soldiers and their Families, here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Dringelstein and her LRC Rheinland-Pfalz coworkers provide installation-level logistics support to USAG Rheinland-Pfalz and multiple tenant units in the Baumholder Military Community. This includes a variety of operations and activities such as supply and services, food services, property accountability, personal property, transportation, transportation quality assurance and quality control, and more.<\/p>\n

The LRC Rheinland-Pfalz Baumholder team also integrates with garrison emergency and crisis action operations to support contingencies, severe weather and other requirements. There are currently about 100 employees from LRC Rheinland-Pfalz working in Baumholder.<\/p>\n

LRC Rheinland-Pfalz is one of eight LRCs that report to the 405th AFSB, which is assigned to U.S. Army Sustainment Command and headquartered in Kaiserslautern, Germany.<\/p>\n

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 \/ 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption \u2013 Christina Dringelstein, a transportation motor pool dispatcher with Logistics Readiness Center Rheinland-Pfalz, assists a military police Soldier at her dispatch office on Smith Barracks in Baumholder, Germany. As a TMP dispatcher, Dringelstein renews dispatches, ensures the TMP vehicles are serviced, handles the winter\/summer tire program, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225839,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225837","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\/225837","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=225837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225842,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225837\/revisions\/225842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/225839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}