{"id":463106,"date":"2025-05-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=463106"},"modified":"2025-05-30T14:33:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T14:33:03","slug":"afsbn-benelux-org-day-fosters-cohesion-camaraderie-across-borders-and-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=463106","title":{"rendered":"AFSBn-Benelux org day fosters cohesion, camaraderie across borders and nations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Delicious foods \u2013 both host nation classics and U.S. traditional barbeque \u2013 were served throughout the day at Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux\u2019s organizational day at the Zutendaal Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in Belgium May 22.
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ZUTENDAAL, Belgium \u2013 Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux\u2019s organizational day at the Zutendaal Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in Belgium May 22 included Dutch Ministry of Defense employees from the Eygleshoven APS-2 worksite in the Netherlands, Belgian host nation employees from APS-2 Zutendaal, and Army civilians and Soldiers from both worksites.<\/p>\n

Events like this help foster esprit de corps and camaraderie within the battalion\u2019s diverse multinational workforce, said Micheal Snell, a logistics management specialist assigned to AFSBn-Benelux.<\/p>\n

Attendees at the day-long event enjoyed a friendly soccer tournament, sumo wrestling, Jenga, a lassoing game, cornhole, 5- and 10-kilometer individual and group hikes, and more<\/p>\n

Delicious foods \u2013 both host nation classics and U.S. traditional barbeque \u2013 were served throughout the day, and a team from Army Community Service, U.S. Army Garrison Benelux Brunssum, set up a table with garrison and local community information and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe AFSBn-Benelux organizational day successfully celebrated our unit cohesion and reinforced positive relationships with our key partners in the Benelux region,\u201d said Snell.<\/p>\n

Battalion executive officer, Maj. Matt Hill, said AFSBn-Benelux couldn\u2019t operate without its Dutch and Belgian host nation workforces \u2013 not only during day-to-day operations at the sites 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

AFSBn-Benelux is one of four battalions assigned to the 405th Army Field Support Brigade. The battalion maintains mission command of the Eygelshoven and Zutendaal worksites and is charged with providing and coordinating receipt, transfer, storage and maintenance of APS-2 at both 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 \/ 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption \u2013 Cornhole was one of several fun and friendly activities at Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux\u2019s organizational day at the Zutendaal Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in Belgium May 22. (Photo Credit: George Bellon) VIEW ORIGINAL 2 \/ 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption \u2013 Delicious foods \u2013 both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463108,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463106","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\/463106","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=463106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463113,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463106\/revisions\/463113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/463108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}