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DÜLMEN, Germany – When you’re not at the Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 task site in Dülmen, you’ll most likely be placed in your media room staking music and staking on your YouTube channel or sorting and cataloging your vast music collection.
Jon Darrenkamp is the Chief of Plans and Operations at the Dülmen APS-2 structure site assigned to the Army Field Support Battalion in Germany, 405th Army Field Support Brigade. The collector of all things music, especially Beatles albums and memorabilia, is also a reserve. officer and captain of the recently activated Expeditionary Terminal Operational Element 575.
Monday through Friday, he is a full-time Army civilian worker at the APS-2 site, and on weekends, once a month, he dons his Army combat uniform and serves as an operations officer for the 575th ETOE, 510th Regional Support Group. , Seventh Mission Support Command.
When he’s not painting or spending time with his family, the 43-year-old father of two and husband who will celebrate 22 years of marriage this spring finds himself in his newsroom and his men’s cave. his precious collection, adding plenty of individual musical memorabilia such as books, magazines and posters, over 1200 catalogued albums, some percussion instruments, an upright piano and, lately, 4 guitars, along with his precious 1994 Gibson Les. Paul Standard in cherry colour. star.
But his absolute favorite pieces are his Beatles records and collectibles, plus a Sgt. Sgt. Sgt. album. The Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band that he owns and listens to since he was a child, as well as magazines, books, posters, movies, etc. T-shirts, action figures, stuffed dolls, and other random trinkets, many of which are considered antique and highly collectible.
But music isn’t Darrenkamp’s only passion. It’s also one hundred percent military green. A graduate of Herzing University in Birmingham, Alabama, who finished his foundational education in late 2010 and Officer Candidate School in April 2011, he served 12 years in the Active Army and now two years in the Army Reserve, in addition to two years as a member of the military. . Before coming to Germany and accepting a assignment with AFSBn-Germany in Dülmen, he was an Army civilian and Chief of Future Operations for the U. S. Army Test and Evaluation Command. The U. S. Navy has been arrested at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
Darrenkamp, who arrived at the APS-2 structure site in Dülmen last April, said running at the site is different from other army missions it has carried out over the years, but also similar in some ways.
“It’s kind of a learning curve for me,” said Darrenkamp, whose first assignment in the military as a junior lieutenant was in South Korea with an air battalion. “I’ve never painted on an APS site before. To have the ability to paint Here and perceive what the APS-2 project entails and how it is the same as other Army projects in many ways, but completely different from anything I’ve done in logistics with the Army; It was a revelation to me.
The Dülmen APS-2 structure looks modest to maximum, Darrenkamp said, but the paintings being made there are immeasurable. And Dülmen’s team is among the army’s greatest unsung heroes, he said.
“We’re the stages that make things happen,” he said. “It’s not the most glamorous position when you get there. It’s quite modest. But what happens here behind closed doors is big and critically vital to this theater of operations and to the world. “
The Wilmington, N. C. , local said his team is lately moving aircraft to a new air defense artillery battalion under the 10th Army’s Air and Missile Defense Command. In addition, they are supporting ongoing operations in Europe to have rotating ensembles and other Army organizations here. for Operation Atlantic Resolve, as well as exercises and trainings, such as the upcoming DEFENDER Exercise.
Operation Atlantic Resolve, or OAR, dates back to 2014, when the U. S. introduced an effort to reassure the NATO alliance in the wake of the Russian military’s movements in Ukraine. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the SRO has grown significantly, according to a press release from the U. S. Department of Defense. The U. S. Joint Strategic Oversight Plan for the SRO to 2024.
Darrenkamp’s task in Dülmen is to ensure supervision and integration between all control and personnel. It also produces progress reports and tracking. And when responsibilities come to him from the top, he passes them on to the team and follows them to completion.
Dülmen’s backyard is the 405th AFSB’s APS-2 program and includes approximately 140,000 square feet of hard area and approximately 480,000 square feet of humidity-controlled warehouse area with another 140,000 square feet of garage in the transient maintenance and garage area.
The 405th AFSB’s APS-2 program complements the U. S. military’s readiness and ability in Europe and Africa to assist the warfighter while selling skills and security in the region. Offering turnkey APS-2 force projection packages that can be deployed at any time, the APS-2 program is a key component of the U. S. Army’s combat force projection and readiness missions. In the U. S. , in Europe and Africa.
The 405th AFSB is assigned to the U. S. Army Sustainment Command. Headquartered in Kaiserslautern, Alemania. La brigade supplies relief material to U. S. forces in Europe and Africa, providing sustainment logistics in the theater of operations; synchronize procurement, logistics, and technology; and leverage the U. S. Army Materiel Command’s hardware business. U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to assist the joint forces. For more information on the 405th AFSB, visit the official online page and the official online Facebook page.