DVIDS - News - Success in new Unit Maintained Equipment Program. FORT HOOD, TX, UNITED STATES0. Courtesy Story. By 1st Lt. Lieutenant Amanda Fonk.
Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. FORT HOOD, Texas – Rear detachment soldiers with the 3rd Battalion, 8. Field Artillery Regiment, “Red Dragons,” 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, helped lead the way as part of the Army pilot for the Unit Maintained Equipment program here as the majority of their unit deployed to Iraq. The UME program is designed to maintain 1. Class Michael Hunter, a Jena, La., native and the UME maintenance non- commissioned officer in charge. The UME personnel maintained 1.
The service schedule was drafted to encompass all combat equipment by priority. The M1. 09. A6 Paladins and M9. Stephen Lewis, a Long Island, N.
Y., native and the UME officer in- charge. Upon the battalion’s return from deployment, arrangements were made to transfer the equipment back from the UME personnel to the different battery commanders.
UME personnel conducted weekly update briefs and after action reviews to help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the UME program. During the six month time frame, there were several important visits from Forces Command, III Corps and Department of the Army personnel to verify the property on site, accountability procedures, and service scheduling for all pieces of equipment inducted into the program.
United States European Command. LEGHORN ARMY DEPOT, Italy — The 3/4. AFSB is executing a Left Behind Equipment South of the Alps mission on behalf of the 1. Airborne Brigade Combat Team, which is stationed in Vicenza, Italy. The unit sent more than 1,0. LBE program. The LBE program is designed to care for a unit's equipment while the unit is deployed. The program covers all aspects of a unit’s materiel, including vehicles and other equipment such as radios and storage containers.
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Through the program, the 4. AFSB maintains the equipment that the unit does not take with them. Michael Kistler, assistant program manager for LBE in Italy. Secondary items are all other type of equipment.). While the unit is deployed, the equipment may be issued to other units, but each unit will receive replacement pieces when it returns from theater.
Because the equipment may be issued to another unit, exact inventory records are crucial in order for the returning unit to receive the same types and pieces of equipment that it leaves behind. The LBE program is designed to provide returning units with 1. Europe. We make any adjustments as necessary in coordination with the unit property book officer and the current owner of the equipment, and then we sign and scan the documentation back to the unit. Once the paperwork is signed, the Property Book Unit Supply Enhanced transfer is completed. By sending us their LBE items as early as possible during their mission preparation, they had more operating room in their location.
The LBE induction greatly helped them in getting stay behind equipment out of their way and into maintenance, allowing them to have ample room for mission preparation. Our LBE program enables them to get their stay behind equipment out of their way quickly and painlessly.
We received more than 2. The 3/4. 05th AFSB recently completed a reissue of equipment for the 9. Movement Control Team, headquartered at Aviano Air Base, Italy. We maintained their equipment for them during their absence. Their HMMWVs were in the RECAP program, and the unit was extremely excited to receive . Army Sustainment Command, the command headquarters for the 4.
AFSB, is responsible for all U. S. Army LBE programs worldwide, including operations in Hawaii, Alaska, Korea and Europe.
The US military has destroyed more than 77,000 metric tons of military equipment.
And while leaving the equipment in Iraq.