Dredging on the Way for Great Sodus & Oak Orchard

Story by Avery Schneider

May 19, 2025

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District awarded a $2 million contract to Michigan-based Dean Marine & Excavating on May 13 to conduct dredging of the federal navigation channels in Great Sodus Bay and Oak Orchard Harbor on Lake Ontario.

Dredging of these harbors ensures accessible depths for vessels traveling the Great Lakes and enables recreational boating which supports more than $24 million in business revenue and labor income to the transportation sector combined.

39th Transportation Battalion Change of Command & Change of Responsibility

Story by Sgt. Gerald Hill

May 17, 2025

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — The 39th Transportation Battalion held a change of responsibility and command ceremony at the NCO Field on Daenner Kaserne, Kaiserslautern, Germany, on May 16, 2025. Soldiers, families, and friends honored Command Sergeant Major Kenyon Brown and Lieutenant Colonel Sean Donahoe as they relinquished their responsibilities and command of the 39th Transportation Battalion to Command Sergeant Major Teneka Stephens and Lieutenant Colonel Michael Watkins, respectively.

Master Sergeant Emmanuel Bour passed the colors to Command Sgt. Maj. Brown, who then passed them to Lt. Col. Donahoe, symbolizing the relinquishment of his responsibility and authority. Lt. Col. Donahoe then passed the colors to Command Sgt. Maj. Stephens, entrusting her with the responsibility and authority for the soldiers' and families' health, welfare, and readiness. Command Sgt. Maj. Stephens returned the colors to Master Sgt. Bour. Lt. Col. Donahoe and Command Sgt. Maj. Brown gave departing remarks, followed by welcoming remarks from Command Sgt. Maj. Stephens.

405th AFSB transportation manager to retire with 30 years on Army’s 250th birthday year

Story by Cameron Porter

May 07, 2025

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – When Tyler Nemchick started working as an Army civilian employee, he qualified and was hired under a special program for outstanding scholars. The graduate of Robert Morris University with a major in aviation management and a minor in logistics management was working at a major oil company when he made the jump to the Army.

Now, 29 years later, he’s retiring. The transportation program manager at the 405th Army Field Support Brigade will be just 12 days shy of 30 years of Army service when he retires on Sept. 30, but he is starting administrative leave under the U.S. government’s deferred resignation program this month, exactly five weeks before the Army celebrates its 250th birthday.

Ready to Respond: XVIII Airborne Corps Explores New Deployment and Training Options in North Carolina

Story by Spc. PS Bailey Whilden

April 25, 2025

KINSTON, N.C. – Without advanced warning, the XVIII Airborne Corps stands ready to deploy globally within 18 hours, forming seamless Joint and Coalition teams to deter or defeat any adversary once boots hit the ground. Preparing for no-notice calls requires constant innovation, investment and readiness, deeming partnerships across North Carolina an essential role in that mission.

Once Guyanese defense force, now 29-year US Veteran at LRC Stuttgart: ‘Happy 250th, Army!’

Story by Cameron Porter

April 21, 2025

STUTTGART, Germany – Colin Greene served eight years with his home country’s military before immigrating to the U.S. and joining the Army. Initially a servicemember with the Guyana defense force air corps, Greene attended the U.S. School of Americas at Albrook Air Force Station in Panama to study general aircraft maintenance in 1982 under the tutelage of the U.S. Air Force.

LRC Wiesbaden employee on Army’s 250th birthday: 'it’s been a series of beautiful moments'

Story by Cameron Porter

April 16, 2025

WIESBADEN, Germany – At Logistics Readiness Center Wiesbaden, Gary Alderman is more than just his job title, transportation assistant. The Army civilian employee, who is also a former Soldier, is a transportation quality control and quality assurance specialist, a U.S. Department of Agriculture compliance inspector and program manager, and a senior customs border clearance stamp custodian and border clearance agent, plus more.

“I provide logistical support for our active-duty servicemembers and Department of Defense civilians when it comes to their personal property shipments – both household goods and unaccompanied baggage – inbound and outbound shipments. And I also go through the daily truck runs with the five moving companies we work with,” said the former Soldier who served seven years on active-duty as a wheeled-vehicle operator and truck driver.

53rd Transportation Battalion (Movement Control) Inactivation

Story by Cameron Porter

April 15, 2025

The 53rd Transportation Battalion (Movement Control) holds a history of service and adaptability within the U.S. Army. Due to their historical post WWII partnership with Germany, the battalion’s SIEGESRÄDER motto translates to "Victory Wheels." On April 10, 2025, the battalion inactivated as part of the U.S. Army’s initiative to redistribute logistics assets.

First constituted May 28, 1943, as the Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 53rd Quartermaster Truck Battalion, the battalion activated in North Africa on June 22, 1943. During World War II, they participated in seven campaigns: Sicily, Naples-Foggia, Anzio, Rome-Arno, Southern France, Rhineland, and Central Europe. Following World War II, 53rd underwent multiple inactivations, redesignations, and reactivations. Notably, on October 29, 1999, it reorganized at Fort McPherson, Georgia, as the 53rd Movement Control Battalion.

On Army’s 250th birthday, TMP dispatcher says working for Army best decision he’s ever made

Story by Cameron Porter

April 10, 2025

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Cristiano Dias has been supporting U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz and the Kaiserslautern Military Community his entire adult life. The 47-year-old local national employee started as a Stars and Stripes delivery driver in 1997 when he was 19. He also worked as a supervisor for the gate guards at Pulaski Barracks and Rhine Ordnance Barracks for 19 years, and he was at the Deployment Processing Center on ROB for five more.

For the last year, Dias has been supporting the Kaiserslautern Military Community and the Army in a new role. Since June, the lifelong resident of Kaiserslautern whose family came to Germany from Portugal works as a transportation motor pool dispatcher with Logistics Readiness Center Rheinland-Pfalz.

LRC Italy employee on Army’s 250th: ‘I’ve had some really great Army transportation leaders’

Story by Cameron Porter

April 09, 2025

POWIDZ, Poland – Properly maintaining a 32,000-pound horizontal heavy construction vehicle is one thing but moving it can be another. Recently, and for the first time, Poland’s 33rd Army Prepositioned Stocks Support Battalion conducted training on the loading and transporting of a U.S. Army D7 medium track-type bulldozer at the APS-2 worksite in Powidz.

The Polish Provided Logistics Support servicemembers conducted the training March 31 to April 4 at the worksite as part of a larger, more comprehensive APS-2 maintenance training program, which has been in motion there since the summer of 2024.

From dentistry to Army transportation, LRC Rheinland-Pfalz LN excited for Army’s 250th

Story by Cameron Porter

April 08, 2025

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Going from a dentist’s office in downtown Kaiserslautern to the 405th Army Field Support Brigade was a major operational procedure, but Lisa Mayer-Wekerle did it without any complications, both from a dental and an Army perspective.

The German host nation employee with the 405th AFSB’s Logistics Readiness Center Rheinland-Pfalz worked for a commercial dentist in the city for about eight years before accepting a local national civilian employee position with the Army on Daenner Kaserne about a year ago.

LRC Italy employee on Army’s 250th: ‘I’ve had some really great Army transportation leaders’

Story by Cameron Porter

April 03, 2025

VICENZA, Italy – It’s not uncommon for a servicemember from the Air Force, Navy, Marines or even the Coast Guard to complete his or her active-duty service requirement and transition over to the Army as one of over 250,000 Army civilian employees in over 500 career paths.

Charis Ford is one of those Army civilians. The Logistics Readiness Center Italy employee has served nearly 10 years as an Army civilian, and before that she was active-duty Air Force working in cargo and personal property transportation management for almost 10 more.

Fort Drum Soldiers Build Bridges with Local Schools at STARBASE

Story by Sgt. Matthew Connor

March 28, 2025

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (March 28, 2025) – Soldiers assigned to C Co., 548th Division Sustainment Support Battalion, 10th Division Sustainment Brigade, 10th Mountain Division (LI), teach students of Gouverneur Middle School about military transportation during a STARBASE event, March, 28, 2025.

STARBASE is a valuable program funded by the Department of Defense that provides students with interactive learning experiences on military installations while allowing them to receive instruction directly from Soldiers.

Operation Deep Freeze 2025: 331st Transportation Company Tackles Extreme Antarctic Conditions

Courtesy Story | XVIII Airborne Corps Public Affairs

March 27th, 2025

The 331st Transportation Company (Causeway), part of 11th Transportation Battalion, 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary) recently returned from the Middle East, only to be called upon again to support another critical expeditionary mission—this time in one of the most austere environments on Earth: McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

Army, Air Force team proves port-opening at exercise Turbo Distribution

Story by Master Sgt. Tristan McIntire

March 18th, 2025

WESTOVER AIR RESERVE BASE, Mass. -- More than 150 Soldiers and Airmen conducted round-the-clock aerial port and cargo-transfer operations in exercise Turbo Distribution, March 12-17, 2025 at Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass. This exercise flexes the U.S. Department of Defense’s capability of rapidly assessing airfields and opening aerial port operations by moving approximately 215 cargo tons through a small airfield into a contested theater of operations in just a few days.

21st TSC conducts rapid power projection through the port of Koper

Story by Capt. Misael Saldivar

January 3rd, 2025

KOPER, Slovenia —The 21st Theater Sustainment Command conducted Reception, Staging, and Onward Movement (RSOM) operations through the port of Koper on Dec. 28, carrying over 480 pieces of equipment assigned to the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division. Soldiers and civilians assigned to the 21st Theater Sustainment Command, the 16th Sustainment Brigade, the 598th Transportation Brigade (Surface Deployment and Distribution Command), and the Slovenian military and port authority ensured the mission was successful.