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“April 21 through 27 is Volunteer Appreciation Week, and we wanted to show volunteers on the installation how much we appreciate the work that they do,” Forrest said.

It is not every day a service member walks into the dining facility while in the field to see the company commander and first sergeant dressed in aprons serving dinner and washing dishes.

The 903rd Contingency Contracting Battalion of the 409th Contracting Support Brigade assembled its teams for a field training exercise in late March to analyze and discuss tactical procedures used to support expeditionary and contingency environments.

Many people in recent years, upon hearing of deployed service members, likely thought of operations in Afghanistan or Iraq. The reality is that U.S. forces serve in many places around the world, and service members from the Kaiserslautern-based 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command now carry that deployed standard in Turkey.

The 21st Special Troops Battalion’s logistics section is responsible for planning movements and directives as it pertains to the battalions’ supply, training, logistics and the budget.

While deployed, the unit conducted more than 540 missions, cleared more than 30,000 kilometers of roads (or 2.5 times the distance between Berlin and Hawaii), found 64 improvised explosive devices, and was involved in 57 small-arms-fire events.

As one can imagine, there are few words to describe the grief our family is experiencing right now. There are so many questions and few answers.