{"id":313317,"date":"2024-10-27T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=313317"},"modified":"2024-10-28T07:57:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T07:57:57","slug":"dutch-ministry-of-defense-workforce-at-eygelshoven-hosts-family-day-at-aps-2-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=313317","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Ministry of Defense workforce at Eygelshoven hosts family day at APS-2 site"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Dutch army Lt. Col. Steven Kattenberg, the Dutch Ministry of Defense\u2019s Material Maintenance Organization commander at the Eygelshoven Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite, provides opening remarks to kick off the family day event at the worksite in the Netherlands Oct. 13. \u201cIt was a great opportunity for us to socialize with our Dutch team members in a less formal environment,\u201d said Maj. Matt Hill, the Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux executive officer.
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\n The team at the Eygelshoven Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in the Netherlands held a family day event recently at the worksite. \u201cThey had this really awesome inflatable obstacle course for the children with rope swings and cargo nets,\u201d said Maj. Matt Hill, the Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux executive officer. \u201cIt took me hours to get my son off that thing. He was in there \u2013 back-and-forth, back-and-forth \u2013 for a very long time.\u201d
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EYGELSHOVEN, Netherlands \u2013 The team at the Eygelshoven Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in the Netherlands held a family day event recently at the worksite. Hosted by the Dutch Ministry of Defense workforce there, nearly 500 DMOD employees and their family members, as well as Soldiers and Army Civilians from Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux and their families, attended the event Oct. 13.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great way to share our workspaces with our friends and families and help them see what it is we do all day every day and why we do it,\u201d said Maj. Matt Hill, the AFSBn-Benelux executive officer. \u201cOn the downside, some of the children may now think ice cream is served in our maintenance bay\u201d on a regular basis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hill said it was a very enjoyable event that helped build esprit de corps amongst the Eygelshoven team. The AFSBn-Benelux commander attended along with several of the battalion staff members and their families, and there were about 480 DMOD employees and their families there, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey had this really awesome inflatable obstacle course for the children with rope swings and cargo nets,\u201d Hill said. \u201cIt took me hours to get my son off that thing. He was in there \u2013 back-and-forth, back-and-forth \u2013 for a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a great opportunity for us to socialize with our Dutch team members in a less formal environment,\u201d said Hill. \u201cWe\u2019re planning an organizational day ourselves in the spring, and we hope to get good participation from our DMOD teammates, then, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur mission wouldn\u2019t be successful without good cooperation between us and our host nation workforces. Not only do we have the Dutch Ministry of Defense workforce at the Eygelshoven worksite, but we also have a Belgian civilian workforce at our APS-2 worksite in Zutendaal [Belgium]. It\u2019s very important to us \u2013 to the commander, especially \u2013 that we maintain good relationships and good cultural understanding and awareness of our two host nation workforces,\u201d Hill said.<\/p>\n

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\n Dutch children pose for a photo in front of a U.S. Flag at the Eygelshoven Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in the Netherlands Oct. 13 during a family day event, there. Hosted by the Dutch Ministry of Defense workforce, nearly 500 DMOD employees and their family members, as well as Soldiers and Army Civilians from Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux and their families, attended the event.
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\n A Dutch Ministry of Defense employee serves ice cream at a family day event held at the Eygelshoven Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in the Netherlands Oct. 13. Hosted by the DMOD workforce there, nearly 500 DMOD employees and their family members, as well as Soldiers and Army Civilians from Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux and their families, attended the event.
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Hill said AFSBn-Benelux couldn\u2019t operate without the host nation workers at his battalion\u2019s two APS-2 worksites \u2013 not only during day-to-day operations at the worksites in the Netherlands and Belgium \u2013 but forward, as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time I\u2019ve deployed forward to an [Equipment Configuration and Hand-off Area] site in places like Romania and Poland or wherever, the Dutch are there with us. The Dutch are there. The Belgians are there. We can\u2019t do our mission without them. Without them, nothing would get accomplished,\u201d said Hill.<\/p>\n

The Eygelshoven APS-2 site provides 450,000 square feet of climate-controlled warehouse space in nine warehouses as well as 50,000 square feet of hardstand storage to hold and maintain APS-2 equipment sets. Responsible for the site, AFSBn-Benelux is one of four battalions assigned to the 405th Army Field Support Brigade. The battalion maintains mission command of Eygelshoven and Zutendaal and is charged with providing and coordinating receipt, transfer, storage and maintenance of APS-2 at those two worksites.<\/p>\n

The 405th AFSB\u2019s APS-2 program enhances U.S. Army Europe and Africa\u2019s readiness and capability to support the warfighter while simultaneously promoting stability and security in the region. By providing turn-key power projection APS-2 packages ready to deploy at a moment\u2019s notice, the 405th AFSB\u2019s APS-2 program is a key component of U.S. Army Europe and Africa\u2019s power projection and warfighter readiness missions.<\/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":"

1 \/ 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption \u2013 Dutch army Lt. Col. Steven Kattenberg, the Dutch Ministry of Defense\u2019s Material Maintenance Organization commander at the Eygelshoven Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite, provides opening remarks to kick off the family day event at the worksite in the Netherlands Oct. 13. \u201cIt was a great opportunity for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313319,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313317","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\/313317","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=313317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313324,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313317\/revisions\/313324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}