{"id":271950,"date":"2024-09-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=271950"},"modified":"2024-09-04T14:19:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T14:19:30","slug":"2nd-tour-in-europe-with-405th-afsb-for-army-expeditionary-civilian-workforce-deployer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=271950","title":{"rendered":"2nd tour in Europe with 405th AFSB for Army Expeditionary Civilian Workforce deployer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Hiram Gillyard is an Army Expeditionary Civilian Workforce program deployer assigned to Army Field Support Battalion-Germany and serving as the acting director of maintenance at the Coleman Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in Mannheim, Germany. Pictured here, Gillyard (on right) speaks to an APS-2 contractor at the Coleman worksite.
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MANNHEIM, Germany \u2013 The acting director of maintenance at the Coleman Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in Mannheim believes in the benefits of the Army Expeditionary Civilian Workforce program so much that he\u2019s now on his second AECW tour to Europe in just over a year.<\/p>\n

Hiram Gillyard, who normally works as a supervisory production manager at the Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania, is in the middle of an 11-month deployment to his second APS-2 worksite in Europe supporting the 405th Army Field Support Brigade.<\/p>\n

Gillyard first served six months at the Eygelshoven APS-2 site in the Netherlands working in supply and services for Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux, and now he\u2019s back in Europe managing the maintenance program at the Coleman APS-2 site for Army Field Support Battalion-Germany.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just finished up an important mission preparing 97 Bradley fighting vehicles that were transferred from Mannheim to multiple locations in Europe. Now, we are starting the process to have 50 more Bradleys readied and completed for another mission by March,\u201d said Gillyard.<\/p>\n

In addition, an entire armored brigade combat team\u2019s worth of APS-2 was recently moved from the Coleman site to the new APS-2 worksite in Poznan, Poland. Gillyard said that mission required about 30 line-haul transporters a day over a period of several weeks to move the APS-2 equipment to Poland.<\/p>\n

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\n Hiram Gillyard is the acting director of maintenance at the Coleman Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in Mannheim, Germany, assigned to Army Field Support Battalion-Germany. He\u2019s also an Army Expeditionary Civilian Workforce program deployer on his second AECW tour in Europe. His home station is Tobyhanna Army Depot, Pennsylvania, where he serves as a supervisory production manager.
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Overall, Gillyard\u2019s primary responsibility as an AECW deployer and acting director of maintenance at the Coleman worksite is coordinating and communicating with the contracted APS-2 maintenance workforce there, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe contractors do the work while I\u2019m responsible for guiding them on exactly what we need executed. It\u2019s all about working as a team and building cohesiveness as we work together to support the warfighter,\u201d Gillyard said. \u201cI\u2019m a Lean Six Sigma guy so I\u2019m good at facilitating, and that\u2019s what I\u2019m able to bring to the table, here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gillyard said the AECW program is a great opportunity for him because he\u2019s able to deploy forward and be inserted into a critical organization supporting U.S. Army Europe and Africa as a value-added member performing an important piece of the overall mission.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the AECW program. It\u2019s been a great opportunity for me. It\u2019s a win-win situation for everyone,\u201d said the 61-year-old resident of Clifford Township, Pennsylvania. \u201cIt\u2019s good for the supported location and unit, and it\u2019s good for the AECW deployer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand manufacturing, and I understand maintenance,\u201d said Gillyard, who has 20 years of government service at the Tobyhanna Army Depot and two more as a contractor, plus four years in the Air Force. \u201cAECW understands my skills and expertise and offers me ways to grow and become even more value added to the Army.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n An M1A2 Abrams main battle tank sits on the back of a military Heavy Equipment Transport line-haul truck at the Coleman Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in Mannheim, Germany. Hiram Gillyard is an Army Expeditionary Civilian Workforce program deployer and acting director of maintenance at the site.
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The AECW program has deployment opportunities in a temporary duty status for six, nine, or 11 months available to permanent and term Army civilians worldwide, to include many with the 405th AFSB in Europe. AECW offers opportunities to work and live overseas, opportunities to experience work challenges not found in day-to-day jobs in the U.S., and opportunities to make a difference supporting Army missions worldwide.<\/p>\n

Army civilians who are interested in applying for the AECW program may submit a resume, recent SF-50, DD214 (if former military), and a signed request for deployment form<\/a> through their supervisor and human resources department. For more information, contact the AECW program office by email<\/a>.<\/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":"

Hiram Gillyard is an Army Expeditionary Civilian Workforce program deployer assigned to Army Field Support Battalion-Germany and serving as the acting director of maintenance at the Coleman Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in Mannheim, Germany. Pictured here, Gillyard (on right) speaks to an APS-2 contractor at the Coleman worksite. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army courtesy photo) VIEW […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271952,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271950","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\/271950","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=271950"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271956,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271950\/revisions\/271956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/271952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}