{"id":262298,"date":"2024-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=262298"},"modified":"2024-08-23T08:32:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T08:32:08","slug":"chance-encounter-on-a-train-in-rome-leads-to-lifetime-of-service-for-afsbn-africa-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=262298","title":{"rendered":"Chance encounter on a train in Rome leads to lifetime of service for AFSBn-Africa employee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Gianna Lisa Salvatori and a coworker discuss personnel actions at their office on Leghorn Army Depot in Livorno, Italy. Salvatori is an Italian host nation employee and a military and civilian resources specialist with Army Field Support Battalion-Africa with 36 years of Army service.
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LIVORNO, Italy \u2013 Right out of a Hollywood picture scene, a young Italian girl bumps into an American Soldier on a train in Rome on a chance encounter. He asks for her phone number and before she can hardly take a breath, he sweeps off her feet and shortly thereafter they are married.<\/p>\n

Despite an initial fiery romance met for the Hollywood red carpet, the marriage didn\u2019t work out, but a life-long career working for the U.S. Army as an Italian host nation employee did. Now, Gianna Lisa Salvatori has 36 years of faithful and dedicated Army service.<\/p>\n

The military and civilian resources specialist with Army Field Support Battalion-Africa said she\u2019s responsible for planning and executing all the ceremonies for the battalion, and she manages the battalion awards program, military personnel actions. overseas tour extensions and rating schemes. And if that isn\u2019t enough, she handles the recruitment and hiring for all the Army civilian personnel at her battalion.<\/p>\n

Starting out at Supply Support Activity as a clerk for a short time and then working in resource management with U.S. Army Garrison Italy for five years and civilian personnel on Camp Darby for three, Salvatori finally found her niche at Leghorn Army Depot working in military and civilian resources and administration. And 28 years later, she\u2019s still there, and she\u2019s an incredibly valuable asset to AFSBn-Africa and the battalion\u2019s Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 mission.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI really like my job, and I have a lot of pride in my work,\u201d said the dog mom of three who when not devoting her time to them focuses mostly on her work. \u201cI try to do my very best at my job with no mistakes. I\u2019m very attached to my work, and I like to help others. It\u2019s my nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it comes to recruitment and hiring actions, for example, Salvatori works extremely hard to ensure the manning level at the battalion remains at or near 100 percent, despite a dynamic turnover of positions and employees coming and going on a regular basis.<\/p>\n

The 62-year-old military and civilian resources expert said she will begin the recruitment process a full year ahead of an employee\u2019s scheduled date of departure and send the hiring package to brigade for approval well in advance to start the recruitment action as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cI must prepare all the documentation for the deputy to the commander and the commander to review before sending it up to brigade. Once brigade approves it, then the civilian personnel office will prepare the job announcement, obtain a referral list, and from there additional actions are executed,\u201d Salvatori said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it comes to hiring, awards and other personnel actions, I\u2019m the liaison between the battalion and the brigade,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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\n Gianna Lisa Salvatori is a military and civilian resources specialist with Army Field Support Battalion-Africa at Leghorn Army Depot in Livorno, Italy. She is responsible for planning and executing all the ceremonies for the battalion, and she manages the battalion awards program, military personnel actions. overseas tour extensions, rating schemes, and recruitment and hiring.
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AFSBn-Africa is charged with receiving, maintaining and storing APS-2 at Leghorn Army Depot. In addition, the battalion is well postured to issue APS-2 to gaining tactical units at locations forward \u2013 known as equipment configuration and handoff areas, or ECHAs. Organizations AFSBn-Africa directly support \u2013 helping to enable readiness across two theaters of operations \u2013 are U.S. European Command, U.S. Africa Command, U.S. Army Europe and Africa, Southern European Task Force-Africa, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, and other strategic partners and allies.<\/p>\n

AFSBn-Africa is one of four battalions under the mission command of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade. 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":"

Gianna Lisa Salvatori and a coworker discuss personnel actions at their office on Leghorn Army Depot in Livorno, Italy. Salvatori is an Italian host nation employee and a military and civilian resources specialist with Army Field Support Battalion-Africa with 36 years of Army service. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army Courtesy photo) VIEW ORIGINAL LIVORNO, Italy \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262300,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262298","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\/262298","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=262298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262304,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262298\/revisions\/262304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/262300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}