{"id":226915,"date":"2024-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=226915"},"modified":"2024-07-17T11:20:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T11:20:46","slug":"aps-2-horizontal-engineer-equipment-turn-in-closes-out-resolute-castle-24-in-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=226915","title":{"rendered":"APS-2 horizontal engineer equipment turn-in closes out Resolute Castle 24 in Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CINCU, Romania \u2013 Under sweltering July heat with temperatures reaching 100+ degrees Fahrenheit in Cincu, a team from Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux started receiving a horizontal engineer construction company\u2019s worth of Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 equipment back from the 104th Engineer Company (Construction) following the unit\u2019s nearly 3-month deployment to Europe in support of Resolute Castle 24.<\/p>\n

The APS-2 equipment \u2013 which includes about 150 major end items like bulldozers, scrapers and backhoes, plus tools, basic issue items and more \u2013 were used by the Fort Cavazos, Texas, based engineer company during the Resolute Castle 24 exercise for horizontal construction projects like roads and staging areas.<\/p>\n

The team from AFSBn-Benelux, who also issued the APS-2 equipment to the engineers in April during an equipment configuration and hand-off area operation, is made up of U.S. Army and Dutch Ministry of Defense civilians from the Eygelshoven APS-2 worksite in the Netherlands. They are set to be in Cincu for about two weeks completing the reverse ECHA. Following the turn-in and reverse ECHA, AFSBn-Benelux will then prepare and load the equipment onto civilian line haul transporters bound for Eygelshoven.<\/p>\n

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\n An Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 water distribution unit stands ready for movement after being jointly inspected by members of Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux and the 104th Engineer Company (Construction) at the turn-in area in Cincu, Romania, following the completion of Resolute Castle 24.
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\n A watch not only tells the time of day but also records the temperature at the Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 turn-in area in Cincu, Romania. Under sweltering heat with temperatures reaching 100+ degrees Fahrenheit, a team from Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux started receiving a horizontal engineer construction company\u2019s worth of Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 back from the 104th Engineer Company (Construction) following Resolute Castle 24.
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\u201cThe unit came in and set up the equipment at the turn-in area, which happened to be the same place where we did the issue back in April,\u201d said Daniel Perez, the director of supply at AFSBn-Benelux and the ECHA chief in Cincu for this mission.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom there, joint inventories were conducted on all the boxes that were opened. The boxes consist of things like secondary items and BII,\u201d Perez said. \u201cOf course, they also inventoried and inspected all the major end items, like the trucks, trailers, generators, and construction equipment, plus all the containers and more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perez said his team will do their final closeout, and all the equipment will be loaded onto the civilian line haul transporters, and the operations center will be collapsed for final movement back to Eygelshoven and end of mission.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hot out here, but it\u2019s absolutely beautiful. We\u2019ve been trying to get started a little early each day and get to work when it\u2019s still cool outside. Plus, you know, we\u2019re taking good rest breaks and making sure everyone is drinking plenty of water and being safe. We don\u2019t want anything going bad out here now that we\u2019re almost ready to go home,\u201d Perez said.<\/p>\n

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\n Secondary items, tools and basic issue items are laid out beside an M984 HEMTT recovery vehicle for joint inspection by Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux and the 104th Engineer Company. Benelux Battalion started receiving a horizontal engineer construction company\u2019s worth of Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 back from the 104th Eng. Co. following the completion of Resolute Castle 24.
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Resolute Castle is a U.S. Army Europe and Africa led, multinational, joint exercise which marries U.S., allied and partner nation engineering unit training opportunities with the completion of real-world construction projects that enhance training capabilities in various areas of Europe’s eastern member states. Resolute Castle is designed to reinforce regional partnerships and promote interoperability with host nation forces by providing improvements to existing infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The 405th Army Field Support Brigade\u2019s APS-2 program provides turn-key power projection packages ready to deploy at a moment\u2019s notice while helping to reduce the amount of equipment needed from the deploying forces\u2019 home stations. The APS-2 program improves deterrence capabilities and provides additional combat power for contingency operations. It may also be drawn for use in training and exercises like Resolute Castle 24.<\/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 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":"

Members of Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux and the 104th Engineer Company (Construction) conduct joint inventories of a horizontal engineer construction company\u2019s worth of Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 equipment at the turn-in area in Cincu, Romania, following the completion of Resolute Castle 24. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army courtesy photo) VIEW ORIGINAL CINCU, Romania \u2013 Under sweltering July […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226917,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226915","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\/226915","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=226915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226923,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226915\/revisions\/226923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/226917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}