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VILSECK, Germany – Most people learn about the Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 program in military publications or by reading about it in the news, but for Cpt. Andrew Marvets his introduction to APS-2 was more direct. He learned of APS-2 while serving as a company commander for a movement control team on a rotational deployment to Europe in support of Atlantic Resolve.
Now, the 34-year-old Army officer and graduate of the University of Georgia is the operations officer at Army Field Support Battalion-Germany. APS-2 is his business, he said, and business is good.
“I was the commander of the 384th Movement Control Team at Joint Base Lewis-McChord on a rotation into Eastern Europe in 2022,” Marvets said. “We were on the pace of facilitating the delivery of the aircraft to the Baltic states, basically Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. “
During that 9-month rotation, Marvets said he was fortunate enough to practice an APS-2 operation running in an apparatus configuration and move dominance in Lithuania’s Exercise DEFENDER 22.
“From a logistical standpoint, it piqued my interest,” said Marvets, a Columbus, Georgia, resident who served in the Army for about eight years.
Coming from a company grade officer position in a line unit, the dynamic employment of an APS-2 unit equipment set, hundreds of tactical vehicles and equipment pieces, “caught my attention,” Marvets said. So much so, after visiting the ECHA site, he spent a considerable amount of time researching and learning about APS-2 operations and what that means to the Army and joint forces in Europe.
“The speed at which you can turn on a set of apparatus from the APS-2 unit and move it around the European theater provides a lot of functions very quickly,” Marvets said.
Marvets’ battalion currently has mission command of the APS-2 worksite in Dülmen, Germany, and is responsible for all the APS-2 operations there. Additionally, his battalion is set to assume mission command of the Coleman APS-2 worksite in Mannheim, Germany, later this year as part of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade’s regional alignment and transformation initiative.
The German battalion works directly with the Mannheim Army Relief Battalion, meeting to prepare the way forward, he said. Marvets and his team at AFSBn-Germany plan to use all the lessons learned in the last 15 months since they took over the helm of Project Dülmen and the wisdom gained at AFSBn-Mannheim to ease the transition.
At the same time, AFSBn-Germany is preparing to assist in the upcoming DEFENDER 24 exercise, scheduled for this spring. His team in Dülmen and at battalion headquarters will work directly with the U. S. Army Medical Equipment Agency. The U. S. Navy has joined the U. S. Navy to design and distribute the hospital’s APS-2 apparatus for this year’s DEFENDER exercise.
Marvets said USAMMA is guilty of the medical devices and in Dülmen, and AFSBn-Germany is guilty of everything else: the boxes that store all the medical devices, the tactical cars that transport them, and more.
“In this case, necessarily within a set of unitary teams, two organizations manage it,” he said.
The German Battalion is one of 4 battalions assigned to the 405th AFSB and headquartered at Rose Barracks in Vilseck, Germany. In addition to its APS-2 project in Dülmen and soon in Coleman, AFSBn-Germany is guilty of offering and coordinating tactical and operational maintenance. to ensure theater readiness and enable commanders to conduct a full diversity of military operations.
The 405th AFSB enhances U.S. Army Europe and Africa’s readiness and capability to support the warfighter by providing turn-key APS-2 packages ready to deploy at a moment’s notice. The 405th AFSB’s APS-2 program is a key component of U.S. Army Europe and Africa’s power projection and warfighter readiness missions.
The 405th AFSB is assigned to the U. S. Army Sustainment Command. It is under the operational control of the U. S. Army’s 21st Theater Sustainment Command. The U. S. , Europe, and África. La brigade is headquartered in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and supplies relief material to U. S. forces in Europe and Africa, offering theater maintenance logistics; synchronize procurement, logistics, and technology; and leverage GAC’s hardware business to assist joint forces. For more information on the 405th AFSB, visit the official online page and the official online Facebook page.