{"id":540512,"date":"2025-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=540512"},"modified":"2025-07-18T11:15:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:15:54","slug":"multifaceted-afsbn-germany-employee-with-6-tours-deployments-to-germany-done-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=540512","title":{"rendered":"Multifaceted AFSBn-Germany employee with 6 tours, deployments to Germany done it all"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n John Schulz (center) briefs some of his fellow staff members from Army Field Support Battalion-Germany at the battalion conference room in Vilseck, Germany, July 18, 2025. Schulz is a transportation specialist at AFSBn-Germany in support operations. He\u2019s also a State of California National Guardsman and a lieutenant colonel who, in addition to this, served for 20 years in the active Army and 16 years in the U.S. Army Reserve.
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\n John Schulz (second from left) rehearses for a battalion staff update with his coworkers at the Army Field Support Battalion-Germany headquarters in Vilseck, Germany, July 18, 2025. Schulz is a transportation specialist at AFSBn-Germany. He also serves as the battalion\u2019s primary trainer and instructor for the Army\u2019s Sexual Harassment\/Assault Response and Prevention Program, Suicide Awareness and Prevention Program, and the Army\u2019s Substance Abuse Awareness and Prevention Program.
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VILSECK, Germany \u2013 Army Field Support Battalion-Germany is lucky to have John Schulz on their team. The support operations transportation specialist at the 405th Army Field Support Brigade\u2019s AFSBn-Germany has literally done it all. When he joined the Army in 1989, he was an infantry mortarman. He also was an infantry officer, ordnance officer, transportation officer, multifunctional logistician, civil affairs officer, and he worked in psychological operations.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s worked at the 405th AFSB\u2019s Logistics Readiness Center Wiesbaden in plans and operations. He was with the 405th AFSB way back in 1997 when it was called U.S. Army Materiel Command, Europe in Seckenheim, Germany. He was active duty \u2013 both enlisted and officer \u2013 for 20 years. He was a U.S. Army Reservist for 16 more years. And he\u2019s now a State of California National Guardsman and lieutenant colonel assigned to state\u2019s museum detachment.<\/p>\n

The 57-year-old father of two \u2013 a son and a daughter \u2013 and husband to his loving wife for the past 26 years said he\u2019s bounced back and forth between the U.S. and Germany quite a lot over the years, especially as a Reservist called up on active duty. An Army civilian employee since 2009, the Battalion Germany transportation expert holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in German from the University of Arizona and has been assigned or deployed to Germany six times. This includes active Army, Reserve, Army civilian, and in some cases a combination of two or more. If that\u2019s not enough time in Germany, his first time was almost 40 years ago as an exchange student with the University of Arizona.<\/p>\n

At AFSBn-Germany, Schulz and a host nation coworker of his handle all the transportation movements of Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 tactical vehicles and equipment sets to and from the D\u00fclmen and the Coleman APS-2 worksites. They track everything, plan upcoming movements, report movement statuses, and ensure the commercial transportation partners they often work with are getting paid for their services. And the APS-2 they are responsible for moving and tracking can be transported all over and across Europe \u2013 and often is.<\/p>\n

Recently, they supported U.S. Army Europe and Africa\u2019s DEFENDER exercise, and they planned and executed movement of equipment used for training Ukrainian military forces in Grafenwoehr. Upon training completion, that equipment was transported and returned to the Coleman APS-2 worksite, which Schulz and his coworker managed and tracked.<\/p>\n

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\n State of California National Guardsman Lt. Col. John Schulz (center) participates in a German weapons marksmanship competition called a Sch\u00fctzenschnur at a range in Weiden, Germany, in May of 2025. Schulz, in addition to being a State of California National Guardsman, is an Army civilian employee with Army Field Support Battalion-Germany. Second from the left is his battalion commander, Lt. Col. Jonathan Neal.
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Also, Schulz said when he was first assigned to AFSB-Germany, it was at the tail-end of a movement order to transport an entire modernized Armored Brigade Combat Team\u2019s worth of APS-2 from Coleman to the Army\u2019s newest, most modern APS-2 worksite in Powidz, Poland. Upon arrival to the battalion, he helped with this mission, as well, he said.<\/p>\n

Schulz not only serves as his battalion\u2019s go-to transportation expert. He also volunteers as the battalion\u2019s primary trainer and instructor for the Army\u2019s Sexual Harassment\/Assault Response and Prevention Program, Suicide Awareness and Prevention Program, and Army Substance Abuse Awareness and Prevention Program. In addition to this, Schulz and his coworker have organized multiple partnership events with local German military organizations in Bavaria, such as weapons marksmanship competitions, plus social events like barbeques and ceremonial awards and recognition events.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think from the Presidential level on down, there’s been increased emphasis on NATO taking a larger role in defending Europe, so it’s that much more important in today’s environment that we work together with our host nation partners,\u201d said Schulz, who has also deployed to Bosnia three times as well as Afghanistan and Iraq. \u201cThere\u2019s even a saying in German that translates to \u2018true camaraderie will be the decisive factor in whether you’re victorious or whether you end up dead.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

AFSBn-Germany is one of four battalions assigned to the 405th AFSB tasked with helping enhance U.S. Army Europe and Africa\u2019s readiness and capability to support the warfighter. Headquartered at Rose Barracks in Vilseck, AFSBn-Germany has mission command of the Coleman and D\u00fclmen APS-2 worksites. APS-2 sites like D\u00fclmen and Coleman help reduce deployment timelines, improve deterrence capabilities and provide additional combat power for contingency operations.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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