{"id":482976,"date":"2025-06-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=482976"},"modified":"2025-06-17T11:30:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:30:27","slug":"loreal-to-army-belgian-employee-at-aps-2-zutendaal-said-she-made-the-right-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=482976","title":{"rendered":"L\u2019Or\u00e9al to Army: Belgian employee at APS-2 Zutendaal said she made the right decision"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Linda Steyls is a Belgian host nation employee with the U.S. Army at the Zutendaal Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in Belgium. The logistics management specialist who works supply operations and planning celebrates five years with the Army next week. She said this is the longest she\u2019s worked for any organization in her life, and she\u2019s confident and satisfied with her decision to go Army.
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\n Linda Steyls, a Belgian host nation employee with the U.S. Army at the Zutendaal Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in Belgium, checks an M1152 Humvee at the worksite. Recently, Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux where Steyls is assigned as a logistics management specialist received over 130 of them.
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ZUTENDAAL, Belgium \u2013 Going from L\u2019Or\u00e9al to the Army may seem like a massive leap to some, but not Linda Steyls. The Belgian host nation employee with the U.S. Army worked in sales and then supply at the major cosmetic retailer for several years before accepting a job with the Army in supply operations at the Zutendaal Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite.<\/p>\n

The logistics management specialist who celebrates five years with the Army next week said she also worked in medical logistics for a few years, and she\u2019s had a connection with national defense and the military her entire life.<\/p>\n

For those reasons and more, Steyls said the Army seemed like the right fit. Now, with five years on the job at Zutendaal \u2013 the longest she\u2019s worked for any organization \u2013 Steyls said she feels confident and satisfied with her decision to go Army.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love being here, even though it has its challenges. I love resolving issues and figuring things out before problems arise and before things go wrong,\u201d said Steyls. \u201cI think it\u2019s part of who I am. I like to focus on procedures and processes and the logic behind operational planning and logistical support. I like to figure out the best avenues of approach to meet mission and maintain efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steyls said she\u2019s not assigned to one particular team, but she works with all the teams and management at Zutendaal to ensure they\u2019re hitting their targets. A good example is the more than 130 two-seater, up-armored M1152 Humvees they recently received, she said.<\/p>\n

According to Steyls, she was responsible for tracking when the maintenance teams completed their technical inspections on the newly arrived vehicles before coordinating with transportation for movement from the initial staging areas outside to climate-controlled warehouse storage space.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was responsible for tracking everything and making sure everyone was doing their part. I tracked the progress made by maintenance before supply got involved, and then when the maintenance and supply missions were complete, I tracked the movement portion,\u201d Steyls said. \u201cThey\u2019re finalizing movement of the last ones, now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 45-year-old resident of Zonhoven, Belgium, which is about a 20-minute drive from Zutendaal, said working as a logistics management specialist with the Army at one of the biggest APS-2 worksites in Europe feels right, and she\u2019s grateful to be a part of the Zutendaal team.<\/p>\n

The team of U.S. Army Soldiers, Army civilians and Belgian host nation employees at the Zutendaal APS-2 worksite are assigned to Army Field Support Battalion-Benelux, which is headquartered at the Eygleshoven APS-2 worksite, just 30 miles away.<\/p>\n

The APS-2 experts from AFSBn-Benelux at Zutendaal and Eygelshoven can rapidly issue combat vehicles and equipment sets to gaining tactical units at the APS-2 worksites or at forward locations across central and eastern Europe using equipment configuration and hand-off areas. APS-2 sites like Zutendaal and Eygelshoven help reduce deployment timelines, improve deterrence capabilities and provide additional combat power for contingency operations.<\/p>\n

AFSBn-Benelux is assigned to the 405th Army Field Support Brigade, which is 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 \/ 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption \u2013 Linda Steyls is a Belgian host nation employee with the U.S. Army at the Zutendaal Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in Belgium. The logistics management specialist who works supply operations and planning celebrates five years with the Army next week. She said this is the longest she\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482978,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482976","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\/482976","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=482976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482982,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482976\/revisions\/482982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/482978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}