{"id":289330,"date":"2024-09-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=289330"},"modified":"2024-09-27T11:11:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T11:11:44","slug":"basops-maintenance-purchasing-agent-to-retire-after-45-years-of-army-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=289330","title":{"rendered":"BASOPS Maintenance purchasing agent to retire after 45 years of Army service"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n G\u00fcnter Meissner is a purchasing agent with Base Support Operations Maintenance in Grafenw\u00f6hr, Germany. The German host nation employee is set to retire in about four months after 45 years of service in the Grafenw\u00f6hr military community working for the U.S. Army. He said when he thinks back on his 45 years with the Army, he has many fond memories to take with him into retirement. (U.S. Army courtesy photo)
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GRAFENW\u00d6HR, Germany \u2013 When he started working in the late \u201870s, he was a mechanic at the auto skills and repair shop at Tower Barracks in Grafenw\u00f6hr, supporting Soldiers and their Families with repairs on their privately owned vehicles. After five years of doing this, he started at what is now called Base Support Operations Maintenance as a heavy equipment mechanic.<\/p>\n

G\u00fcnter Meissner now works as a purchasing agent for BASOPS Maintenance, 405th Army Field Support Brigade. The German host nation employee is set to retire in about four months after 45 years of service in the Grafenw\u00f6hr Military Community working for the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n

The 64-year-old local national employee said when he thinks back on his 45 years with the Army, he has many fond memories to take with him into retirement. The people he worked with, the jobs he did \u2013 overall, it was a good career and he\u2019s happy and proud of his work.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery once in a while, there was a little problem or issue here or there, but we always worked together to figure it out and fix it. The people I work with here are very nice, and the work environment is fine. Many of them are my neighbors so even after retirement I\u2019ll see them around town or out shopping and stop and say \u2018hello, how\u2019s things at work?\u2019\u201d Meissner said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meissner has worked as a BASOPS Maintenance purchasing agent for over 10 years. In that role he interacts with BASOPS personnel working at all five Army garrisons and multiple other sites in Germany \u2013 places like Stuttgart, Kaiserslautern, Wiesbaden, Baumholder, Garmisch and Ansbach. His job is to ensure the BASOPS Maintenance teams at those locations have the necessary repair parts, stock parts and tools needed to do their jobs.<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t always about purchasing repair parts and tools for Meissner. Before doing that, for about 30 years he worked as a mechanic in BASOPS Maintenance. His job was to repair and maintain heavy equipment like graders, generators, dump trucks, scrapers, lawn maintenance equipment, snow removal equipment, and more.<\/p>\n

With retirement firmly on the horizon, Meissner said he looks forward to spending more time with his bride of 31 years traveling and enjoying their next chapter, together.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will try to go to the United States. We\u2019ve never been there so I hope to visit the U.S. someday soon. It was very fine working for the U.S. Army all these years. Now I hope to just relax and enjoy my retirement,\u201d Meissner said.<\/p>\n

As a field operating activity under the 405th AFSB, BASOPS Maintenance provides equipment maintenance support to all garrison community organizations and activities in Germany. It provides consolidated material maintenance support for base support operations equipment and mechanical safety inspections for privately owned vehicles. It performs automotive maintenance on a fleet of garrison support vehicles to include special purpose and armored vehicles, fire and rescue, snow and ice removal and construction equipment such as scoop loaders, excavators, scrapers, road graders, tractors, rollers, and more.<\/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 the U.S. Army Materiel Command 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":"

G\u00fcnter Meissner is a purchasing agent with Base Support Operations Maintenance in Grafenw\u00f6hr, Germany. The German host nation employee is set to retire in about four months after 45 years of service in the Grafenw\u00f6hr military community working for the U.S. Army. He said when he thinks back on his 45 years with the Army, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289332,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289330","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\/289330","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=289330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289333,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289330\/revisions\/289333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/289332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}