{"id":31154,"date":"2023-10-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=31154"},"modified":"2023-10-14T06:42:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T06:42:03","slug":"405th-afsb-basops-maintenance-director-honored-for-her-25-years-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=31154","title":{"rendered":"405th AFSB BASOPS Maintenance director honored for her 25 years of service"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Base Support Operations Maintenance Director Stephanie Kramer was recently honored for her service with the Army. The German local national employee assigned to the 405th Army Field Support Brigade received a 25-year Army length of service award from Joseph Scheff, the 405th AFSB director, and Command Sgt. Maj. Terrell Brisentine at the BASOPS Maintenance Directorate headquarters, Oct. 12.
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GRAFENWOEHR, Germany \u2013 The successes of an organization can often be directly attributed to its people, and this holds true for the 405th Army Field Support Brigade, as well. One person who has driven success for the 405th AFSB \u2013 serving faithfully with dedication and pride for the last 2.5 decades \u2013 is the director of the Base Support Operations Maintenance Directorate.<\/p>\n

Recently presented with a 25-year Army length of service award, Stephanie Kramer embodies empathy, integrity, respect and more \u2013 all the character qualities that count, said Joseph Scheff, the director of the 405th AFSB, who presented Kramer with the award at the BASOPS headquarters in Grafenwoehr, Oct. 12, along with 405th AFSB Command Sgt. Maj. Terrell Brisentine.<\/p>\n

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\n Joseph Scheff, the director of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade, and 405th AFSB Command Sgt. Maj. Terrell Brisentine present Stephanie Kramer with a 25-year Army length of service award. Kramer is a German local national employee and the director of the Base Support Operations Maintenance Directorate, 405th AFSB.
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Kramer, who is a German local national employee, first started working with the U.S. Army in September of 1998 in Wuerzburg as one of the Army\u2019s first apprentices in Germany. The program \u2013 still in its infancy at the time \u2013 was started by the director of Theater Logistics Support Center-Europe, 21st Theater Sustainment Command. Since then, Kramer has carried the apprenticeship program with her to BASOPS Maintenance, 405th AFSB, actively instituting it within her directorate and across U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria.<\/p>\n

As the director of BASOPS Maintenance, Kramer is responsible for a workforce of over 120 local national employees who support all the Army garrisons across Germany with material maintenance for base support operations equipment, mechanical safety inspections for privately owned vehicles and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last 25 years have been an incredible journey,\u201d said Kramer, who started as an administration clerk after completing her apprenticeship in 2000.<\/p>\n

Obtaining her master\u2019s degree in business administration in 2005, Kramer moved from Wuerzburg to Grafenwoehr shortly after where she first worked at the Host Nation Liaison Field Operating Agency as a management and program analyst overseeing transportation, supply and maintenance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am privileged to be a part of this amazing team,\u201d said Kramer, who served as the deputy to the director before becoming the director of BASOPS Maintenance in 2015. \u201cThe dedication, expertise, teamwork and unwavering support of our BASOPS Maintenance professionals have contributed immensely to my professional development.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWhen I started, it was called the \u2018Maintenance Center of Excellence\u2019 and it still is,\u201d said Kramer. \u201cAlthough it\u2019s now called BASOPS Maintenance, it\u2019s still the maintenance center of excellence, mainly because of our people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am grateful for being a part of this organization, which I call family,\u201d Kramer said, \u201cand I really appreciate Mr. Scheff and Command Sgt. Maj. Brisentine taking the time out of their busy schedules to visit BASOPS Maintenance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Base Support Operations Maintenance Director Stephanie Kramer (center left, back row) poses for a photo with some of her team members from the BASOPS Maintenance Directorate. In the photo, Kramer and her team show their approval for Women\u2019s History Month, which is celebrated annually in March. A German local national employee, Kramer was recently recognized by the U.S. Army for her 25 years of dedicated and faithful service.
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\u201cStephie Kramer exemplifies professionalism and dedication and is a recognized leader among the U.S. Army Europe and Africa sustainment community,\u201d Scheff said.<\/p>\n

As a field operating directorate 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

BASOPS Maintenance also manages a special apprenticeship program that has proven to be quite successful as an alternative way to attract new employees. The program allows apprentices to learn as they go, gaining critical on-the-job experience. Currently the BASOPS Maintenance apprenticeship program is only available in the U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria area of responsibility. To find out more about the program, call DSN 314-526-3801 or commercial +49-9641-70-526-3801.<\/p>\n

The 405th AFSB is assigned to U.S. Army Sustainment Command and under the operational control of the 21st TSC, U.S. Army Europe and Africa. The brigade is headquartered in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and 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":"

Base Support Operations Maintenance Director Stephanie Kramer was recently honored for her service with the Army. The German local national employee assigned to the 405th Army Field Support Brigade received a 25-year Army length of service award from Joseph Scheff, the 405th AFSB director, and Command Sgt. Maj. Terrell Brisentine at the BASOPS Maintenance Directorate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31156,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31154","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\/31154","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=31154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31160,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31154\/revisions\/31160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}