{"id":444837,"date":"2025-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=444837"},"modified":"2025-05-13T06:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T06:23:18","slug":"afsbn-benelux-issues-aps-2-equipment-vehicles-to-chem-company-for-defender-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=444837","title":{"rendered":"AFSBn-Benelux issues APS-2 equipment, vehicles to chem. company for DEFENDER 25"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n A couple of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) defense specialists from the 48th Chemical Brigade\u2019s 59th Chemical Company conduct preventative maintenance checks and services on an M1135 Stryker NBC reconnaissance vehicle at the Eygelshoven Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite May 12.
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\n Army Lt. Col. George Horne, the commander of Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux, briefs the joint team of Soldiers from the 59th Chemical Company, Soldiers and Army civilians from AFSBn-Benelux, and Dutch Ministry of Defense employees from Materieellogistiek Commando who work with AFSBn-Benelux at the Eygelshoven Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite.
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\n A couple of Soldiers who are chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) defense specialists with the 59th Chemical Company (Hazardous Response) inspect the undercarriage of a light medium tactical vehicle at Eygelshoven Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite May 12.
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\n A Soldier from the 59th Chemical Company checks the oil on an M1135 Stryker NBC reconnaissance vehicle at the Eygelshoven Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite May 12. Upon arriving at the site, Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux began the process of issuing the 59th Chem. Co. Soldiers more than 200 APS-2 major end items, including several NBC reconnaissance Strykers.
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\n Two Dutch Ministry of Defense employees from Materieellogistiek Commando who work at the Eygelshoven Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in the Netherlands prepare equipment and supplies for issue to the 59th Chemical Company (Hazardous Response) for DEFENDER 25.
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EYGELSHOVEN, Netherlands \u2013 The Eygelshoven Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in the Netherlands is one of the most active APS worksites on the planet, but recently activity levels at the site reached new levels.<\/p>\n

On the day DEFENDER 25 officially kicked off, May 11, the 59th Chemical Company (Hazardous Response), touched down in Europe. The very next day the Soldiers from Fort Drum, New York, arrived at the Eygelshoven APS-2 worksite, and Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux began the process of issuing them more than 200 APS-2 major end items, including several M1135 Stryker NBC reconnaissance vehicles and more.<\/p>\n

Normally, the issue of equipment is conducted at equipment configuration and hand-off areas (ECHAs) forward, but the chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) defense specialists from the 48th Chemical Brigade\u2019s 59th Chem. Co. were the first Soldiers in history to be issued APS-2 tactical vehicles and gear directly from AFSBn-Benelux at the Eygelshoven site for DEFENDER.<\/p>\n

Army Lt. Col. George Horne, the commander of AFSBn-Benelux, said the mission serves as a proof of principle. Issuing APS-2 equipment from the worksite versus forward demonstrates additional flexibility and more importantly his battalion\u2019s ability to facilitate a mass deployment directly from the site.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing able to issue from the APS site gives an additional flexibility to the theater. With this, we can now say, okay, we’re able to receive a second echelon here at the APS site while not delaying any of the combat actions happening closer to the east, for example,\u201d Horne said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s one thing to have the APS equipment sitting in the warehouses going through the maintenance cycles. It’s a whole other thing to show the practical application of theater strategic support, to show our ability to receive Soldiers from the opposite side of the world and put them into the fight quickly and efficiently while supporting the combatant commander,\u201d said Horne.<\/p>\n

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\n Soldiers from the 59th Chemical Company inventory Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 equipment at the Eygelshoven APS-2 worksite May 12. Upon arriving at the site, Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux began the process of issuing the 59th Chem. Co. Soldiers more than 200 APS-2 major end items.
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\n Pictured here is an aerial view of a portion of the more than 200 Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 tactical vehicles and equipment pieces Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux issued to the 59th Chemical Company at the Eygelshoven APS-2 worksite for DEFENDER 25.
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\n Soldiers from the 59th Chemical Company (Hazardous Response) conduct inventory on more than 200 APS-2 major end items of Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 at the Eygelshoven APS-2 worksite May 12, including these light medium tactical vehicles.
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Army 1st Lt. Logan Liddington is the executive officer for the 59th Chem Co. but for the APS-2 issue mission at Eygelshoven he was the gaining tactical unit\u2019s officer in charge. Liddington said initially his team of CBRN Soldiers were extremely busy doing 100 percent inventories and preventative maintenance checks and services on all the APS-2 gear before signing for the equipment and taking responsibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first time we are being issued APS. It\u2019s a lot easier and quicker to send the U.S. Soldiers overseas and receive the equipment here, so it gives us an additional option when rapidly deploying forward to the European theater,\u201d said Liddington. \u201cWe landed yesterday, we\u2019re here on site for a couple of days inspecting and signing for all the equipment, and we expect to receive the equipment at the exercise location in less than a week,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

In comparison, Liddington said he was recently deployed to Romania with 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, with all of their organic equipment and vehicles in tow. He said, in total, it took about three months to move all that equipment from Fort Drum to eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

Next, the chemical company\u2019s worth of APS-2 will be line-haul transported to northeastern Greece where the Soldiers from the 59th Chem. Co. will employ the CBRN equipment at various locations during DEFENDER 25\u2019s Immediate Response exercise.<\/p>\n

In addition to the Stryker NBC reconnaissance vehicles, the APS-2 CBRN equipment the 59th Chem. Co. received includes several Humvees and 5-ton trucks, about 20 light medium tactical vehicles with trailers, and a wrecker. It also includes dozens of radios and receivers\/transmitters as well as NBC decontamination equipment, tools and test kits, containers, generators, and more.<\/p>\n

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AFSBn-Benelux is one of four battalions under the command and control of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade. AFSBn-Benelux is responsible for the Eygelshoven APS-2 worksite and the APS-2 worksite in Zutendaal, Belgium.<\/p>\n

The 405th AFSB\u2019s APS-2 program enhances U.S. Army Europe and Africa\u2019s capability to support the warfighter while simultaneously promoting stability and security in the region. Able to provide turn-key power projection packages ready to employ at a moment\u2019s notice, the 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 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

DEFENDER 25 is the largest series of U.S. Army exercises in Europe involving about 23,000 troops from the U.S., Allied and partner nations. DEFENDER 25 runs from May 11 to June 24, 2025, in 15 countries across Europe. The large-scale exercises and deployment rehearsals conducted during DEFENDER 25 converge U.S. and NATO systems, capabilities and tactics supporting U.S. strategic initiatives and NATO regional plans to dominate multi-domain environments in a crisis. Go here to view more DEFENDER 25 media products<\/a>, and visit the U.S. Army Europe and Africa website on DEFENDER 25<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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