{"id":521193,"date":"2025-07-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=521193"},"modified":"2025-07-09T08:55:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T08:55:41","slug":"soldier-for-life-back-in-brunssum-netherlands-as-lrc-beneluxs-property-book-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=521193","title":{"rendered":"Soldier for Life back in Brunssum Netherlands as LRC Benelux\u2019s property book officer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Stuart Hodge III is the property book officer for Logistics Readiness Center Benelux in Brunssum, Netherlands. He\u2019s also a Soldier for Life who served for 10 years as an active-duty Soldier and was a staff sergeant when he completed his duties in uniform before transitioning to Army civilian.
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BRUNSSUM, Netherlands \u2013 \u2018Soldier for Life\u2019 can mean many things to many people. For Stuart Hodge III \u2013 while no longer wearing the Army uniform \u2013 Soldier for Life means continuing to serve and continuing to support the warrior as an Army civilian.<\/p>\n

\u201cLetting go completely from the Army wasn\u2019t an option for me. I loved it too much,\u201d said the property book officer for Logistics Readiness Center (LRC) Benelux in Brunssum who served for 10 years as an active-duty Soldier and was a staff sergeant when he completed his duties in uniform before transitioning to Army civilian.<\/p>\n

Hodge, who is 35 years old, served as a supply sergeant with the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber) at Fort Meade, Maryland, on his last active-duty assignment. While taking off his camouflage uniform and combat boots wasn\u2019t an easy decision, he said he knew he wanted to keep serving, and he knew the Army was where he wanted to be. So, while still at Fort Meade, he applied and was hired by the National Security Agency as an Army civilian employee.<\/p>\n

After a little more than two years with the NSA, Hodge made another important decision. He applied for a position with LRC Benelux, 405th Army Field Support Brigade (405th AFSB), in the Netherlands and was immediately hired. But that\u2019s not the first time he\u2019s lived and worked in the Netherlands, he said. When he was a Soldier, he did a three-year tour at Allied Joint Forces Command (JFC) Brunssum, working fuel movements at the joint headquarters\u2019 logistics directorate (CJ4), and loved it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI deployed to Afghanistan four times from there, usually for three months each,\u201d said Hodge, who is now LRC Benelux\u2019s property book officer since September of 2024 supporting five locations. The locations he supports are the Army Prepositioned Stocks -2 worksites in Eygleshoven, Netherlands, and Zutendaal, Belgium, plus U.S. Army Garrison Benelux Brunssum, JFC Brunssum, and another APS-2 worksite in D\u00fclmen, Germany.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m there for the hand receipt holders when they have questions or when any discrepancies come up. It\u2019s a lot of networking, really,\u201d said Hodge, who manages and maintains the Command Supply Discipline Program for U.S. Army Garrison Benelux Brunssum and is responsible for 27 hand receipt holders, mostly garrison directorates including a couple of facilities at NATO\u2019s JFC Brunssum.<\/p>\n

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Hodge said as the property book officer for LRC Benelux, he\u2019s responsible for about $5 million dollars\u2019 worth of inventory that\u2019s hand receipted down to the 27 directorates, sections, divisions and offices he supports. He and his co-worker \u2013 a Dutch host nation employee \u2013 assist all 27 hand receipt holders with conducting 100 percent inventories on an annual basis and 25 percent inventories quarterly.<\/p>\n

As part of the Command Supply Discipline Program, or CSDP, they are also responsible for doing inspections to ensure their hand receipt holders are following prescribed guidelines and performing their hand receipt tasks and duties in accordance will all applicable regulations, policies and procedures.<\/p>\n

Being a Soldier for Life extends to his spouse, Erin Hodge, he said. Just like her husband, Erin also served for 10 years on active duty as a Soldier but worked in preventive medicine. And she\u2019s now a U.S. Army Reserve Soldier and staff sergeant with the 7th Mission Support Command headquarters, based out of Kaiserslautern, Germany.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not easy for her, just because of the distance. She drives three, three-and-a-half hours one way each month to Kaiserslautern for her Reserve duty,\u201d said Hodge who met his wife while they both were on active duty and have been married for 10 years this month.<\/p>\n

LRC Benelux is one of eight LRCs under the command and control of the 405th AFSB. LRCs execute installation logistics support and services to include supply, maintenance, and transportation as well as clothing issue facility operations, hazardous material management, personal property and household goods, passenger travel, non-tactical vehicle and garrison equipment management, and property book operations. When it comes to providing day-to-day installation services, LRC Benelux directs, manages and coordinates a variety of operations and activities in support of USAG Benelux.<\/p>\n

LRC Benelux reports to the 405th AFSB, which is assigned to U.S. Army Sustainment Command and headquartered in Kaiserslautern. 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":"

Stuart Hodge III is the property book officer for Logistics Readiness Center Benelux in Brunssum, Netherlands. He\u2019s also a Soldier for Life who served for 10 years as an active-duty Soldier and was a staff sergeant when he completed his duties in uniform before transitioning to Army civilian. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army courtesy photo) VIEW […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521195,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521193","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\/521193","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=521193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521199,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521193\/revisions\/521199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/521195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}