{"id":261693,"date":"2024-08-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=261693"},"modified":"2024-08-22T17:57:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T17:57:04","slug":"1cdsb-surpasses-two-thirds-a-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=261693","title":{"rendered":"1CDSB surpasses two-thirds-a-century"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n From right, Pfc. Alexa Crane, the youngest Trooper in the brigade, Col. Christopher Jones, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division Sustainment Brigade, and Sgt. 1st Class Pietz L. Pearson, the oldest Trooper in the brigade, cuts a cake in commemoration of the 1st Cavalry Division Sustainment Brigade’s 67th birthday on Forward Operating Site Powidz, Poland, Aug. 15, 2024. The Brigade was officially activated Aug. 22, 1957. Current Troopers honor the Brigade\u2019s storied past by upholding their mission to provide field services, supply, maintenance and transportation operations in support of the 1st Cavalry Division. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Julian A. Winston)
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\n A Task Force Pegasus Trooper performs a bear crawl while balancing a weight on his back during a challenging physical event commemorating the 1st Cavalry Division Sustainment Brigade’s 67th birthday on Forward Operating Site Powidz, Poland, Aug. 15, 2024. The Brigade was officially activated Aug. 22, 1957. Current Troopers honor the Brigade\u2019s storied past by upholding their mission to provide field services, supply, maintenance and transportation operations in support of the 1st Cavalry Division. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Julian A. Winston)
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\n Task Force Pegasus Troopers pose for a group photo with Col. Christopher Jones, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division Sustainment Brigade, and Command Sgt. Maj. Paul Gomez, command sergeant major of the 1st Cavalry Division Special Troops Battalion, after a sports tournament in commemoration of the 1st Cavalry Division Sustain Brigade’s 67th birthday on Forward Operating Site Powidz, Poland, Aug. 15, 2024. The Brigade was officially activated Aug. 22, 1957. Current Troopers honor the Brigade\u2019s storied past by upholding their mission to provide field services, supply, maintenance and transportation operations in support of the 1st Cavalry Division. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Julian A. Winston)
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\n Task Force Pegasus Troopers participate in challenging physical events to commemorate the 1st Cavalry Division Sustainment Brigade’s 67th birthday on Forward Operating Site Powidz, Poland, Aug. 15, 2024. The Brigade was officially activated Aug. 22, 1957. Current Troopers honor the Brigade\u2019s storied past by upholding their mission to provide field services, supply, maintenance and transportation operations in support of the 1st Cavalry Division. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jacob Nunnenkamp)
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FORWARD OPERATING SITE POWIDZ, Poland\u2014 For 67 years, the 1st Cavalry Division Sustainment Brigade, or 1CDSB, has exemplified sustained excellence, whether it\u2019s at home station Fort Cavazos, Texas or its current location on NATO\u2019s eastern flank.<\/p>\n

The brigade provides the 1st Cavalry Division with essential supplies, maintenance, transportation, and field service. Despite multiple organizational changes and rebranding over the years, 1CDSB, also known as Task Force Wagonmaster, or TF Wagonmaster, continues to be a crucial divisional asset more than two-thirds of a century after its inception.<\/p>\n

The unit\u2019s history dates back to the aftermath of the Korean War, when Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 1st Cavalry Division Trains, was constituted on Aug. 22, 1957. Although the concept of \u201cTrains\u201d under a controlling headquarters was new to the division at the time, it had been successfully employed by Armor units during World War II to provide Troopers in the field with essential supplies, including food, clothing, ammunition and transportation.<\/p>\n

Today, the brigade continues this proud tradition. To celebrate its founding, the current Troopers of 1CDSB hosted a full day of events at Forward Operating Site Powidz. The day included a physical readiness training, or PRT, event, a sports tournament, a soldier recognition and awards ceremony and, as tradition demands, a cake-cutting ceremony with a ceremonial military saber.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe ask you as teams to compete together \u2026 because that\u2019s how we win. We win as teams, not as individuals,\u201d said Col. Christopher Jones, the 1st Cavalry Division Sustainment Brigade and Task Force Wagonmaster Commander, during his opening remarks.<\/p>\n

The celebration began early in the morning with Soldiers forming up by their respective battalions and companies. Dressed in Army Combat Uniforms and carrying 35-pound rucksacks, they were divided into groups to tackle a series of challenging PT events themed around the number 67, marking the brigade’s years of service.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not asking you to have been born strong or born tough, but I\u2019m asking you to have grit because grit is what\u2019s going to take you through everything in life,\u201d Jones told his Troopers before they started the PT event.<\/p>\n

The PT course included seven stations, with each event following the \u201867\u2019 theme, whether it was through repetitions or seconds. At the first station, Soldiers completed 67 hand-release \u2018T\u2019 push-ups as a team. They then ran to the second station, where they worked together to push gym weight plates across a sports field, alternating between the bear crawl position and carrying the plates on their backs.<\/p>\n

At the next station, the Soldiers completed 67 \u2018ruck squats\u2019 using their rucksacks as quasi-medicine balls. Station four required them to hold a plank position for 67 seconds. At station five, they conducted rucksack presses. The penultimate station featured 67 \u20188-count push-ups,\u2019 and the final station had them complete 67 repetitions of the \u2018Rower\u2019 exercise before returning to their starting point.<\/p>\n

After the PT event, Col. Jones recognized and awarded the group that finished first.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt pays to be a winner,\u201d Jones said as he presented each group member with a brigade coin.<\/p>\n

The day’s festivities continued with a cake-cutting ceremony. Col. Jones recognized additional Soldiers for outstanding service before inviting the brigade’s youngest and oldest Soldiers to join him in cutting the cake observing the time-honored Army tradition.<\/p>\n

After celebrating their organization\u2019s birthday, the Soldiers and leaders of the brigade soon set their focus on conducting platoon live fire exercises, continuing its mission as the deployed rotational sustainment brigade. Throughout its history, Soldiers of the Wagonmaster brigade have served honorably and will continue to provide the sustainment needs of the 1st Cavalry Division, at home or abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 \/ 5 Show Caption + Hide Caption \u2013 From right, Pfc. Alexa Crane, the youngest Trooper in the brigade, Col. Christopher Jones, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division Sustainment Brigade, and Sgt. 1st Class Pietz L. Pearson, the oldest Trooper in the brigade, cuts a cake in commemoration of the 1st Cavalry Division Sustainment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261695,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261693","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\/261693","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=261693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261701,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261693\/revisions\/261701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/261695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}