{"id":435840,"date":"2025-05-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=435840"},"modified":"2025-05-05T09:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:51:30","slug":"405th-afsb-spouse-vicenza-volunteer-of-the-year-excitement-in-the-air-happy-250th-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=435840","title":{"rendered":"405th AFSB spouse, Vicenza volunteer of the year: excitement in the air, happy 250th, Army!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Mary Spitler was named Vicenza Military Community Civilian Spouse Volunteer of the Year at a recognition ceremony on Caserme Ederle in Vicenza, Italy, April 30. Pictured here, the Spitler family celebrates the return of Jacob Spitler from Afghanistan in 2020 with a family photo. Being recognized as volunteer of the year at a ceremony in 2025, \u201cthe excitement is in the air. Happy 250th birthday, U.S. Army!\u201d Spitler said.
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\n Mary Spitler is presented with the Vicenza Military Community Civilian Spouse Volunteer of the Year award at a recognition ceremony on Caserme Ederle in Vicenza, Italy, April 30. \u201cTo be nominated by the (Parent Teacher Student Association) was huge, but then to receive the award was an unbelievable feeling,\u201d she said.
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\n Mary Spitler and her husband, Jacob Spitler, pose for a photo at the 2024 Vicenza Military Community Black and White Ball. She was recently named Vicenza Military Community Civilian Spouse Volunteer of the Year at a recognition ceremony on Caserme Ederle in Vicenza, Italy. She\u2019s also the program and test center coordinator for the University of Maryland Global Campus on Ederle, and he\u2019s the senior planner for the 405th Army Field Support Brigade\u2019s Logistics Civil Augmentation Program for Africa.
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VICENZA, Italy \u2013 Mary Spitler met her husband in college at Western Carolina University. About a year after they were married, her husband started serving with the Department of Defense as a DoD civilian employee. Together \u2013 and for the last 15 years \u2013 they\u2019ve been serving, supporting and volunteering in military communities across the U.S. and now with the Army overseas in Italy.<\/p>\n

For her volunteer work with the Parent Teacher Student Association in Vicenza, the 405th Army Field Support Brigade spouse was recently recognized and named Vicenza Military Community Civilian Spouse Volunteer of the Year at a ceremony on Caserme Ederle. Spitler also supports the U.S. Army Garrison Italy community in Vicenza as a volunteer member of the School Advisory Committee, and she volunteers with the Red Cross and USO, as well.<\/p>\n

Somehow, in addition to all this volunteer work, Spitler is a supporting spouse to her Army civilian husband, Jacob Spitler, who deploys to the continent of Africa frequently for exercises and other missions, and she\u2019s \u201can outstanding and loving mother to our three beautiful elementary school age children,\u201d said Jacob, the senior planner for the 405th AFSB\u2019s Logistics Civil Augmentation Program for Africa.<\/p>\n

If that wasn\u2019t enough, when Spitler isn\u2019t fully engaged as a mom, wife and Vicenza community volunteer, she\u2019s the program and test center coordinator for the University of Maryland Global Campus at the education center on Ederle. After being presented with the volunteer of the year award April 30, the 37-year-old mother, wife, test coordinator, and community volunteer said she was completely overwhelmed and humbled.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve always been a hard worker with everything I involve myself in. Anywhere that we’ve been stationed, I always try to be involved with the community and help because I do believe that we are what we make of it,\u201d said Spitler, who has been stationed in North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan and Virginia with her husband, plus Italy where they\u2019ve been for over two years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe support here is amazing. The community itself is great,\u201d Spitler said. \u201cWe are all here to support each other in these tough times, being away from our families and friends back home, stateside. It’s really a community effort, so I was very honored they would even think of me and the work I\u2019ve done. To be nominated by the PTSA was huge, but then to receive the award was an unbelievable feeling.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Spitler, who is originally from Michigan, said receiving the award while overseas in a military community on such a special year for the Army is also an unbelievable feeling. Even though the award period qualifying her for volunteer of the year was 2024, she didn\u2019t officially receive the recognition until April of 2025 on the year the Army celebrates its 250th birthday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a really cool. It\u2019s an unbelievable feeling to be acknowledged for my work during this special time frame. There\u2019s a lot going on, and the excitement is in the air. Happy 250th birthday, U.S. Army!\u201d she said.<\/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

The Army will celebrate its 250th birthday on June 14. For 250 years, the Army has offered endless possibilities and opportunities for service to our nation with over 200 career choices for Soldiers and more than 500 career paths for civilians. Go here to learn more about the Army\u2019s 250th birthday<\/a>, and check out the DVIDS\u2019s special Army birthday feature portal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 \/ 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption \u2013 Mary Spitler was named Vicenza Military Community Civilian Spouse Volunteer of the Year at a recognition ceremony on Caserme Ederle in Vicenza, Italy, April 30. Pictured here, the Spitler family celebrates the return of Jacob Spitler from Afghanistan in 2020 with a family photo. Being recognized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435842,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435840","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\/435840","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=435840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435846,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435840\/revisions\/435846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/435842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}