News for the Ramstein, Kaiserslautern, Landstuhl & Baumholder military communities in Germany 
BREMERHAVEN, Germany — Soldiers from 16th Sustainment Brigade assisted 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, with offloading the heavy brigade’s equipment from cargo ships in the North Sea port city of Bremerhaven and transporting it to the Bergen-Hohne Training Area railhead almost 100 miles inland from January 6 to 18.
MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU, Romania — A heavy equipment transporter team verified main supply routes capable of moving an M1A2 Abrams tank on a HET convoy that started Dec. 6 in Romania en route to Bulgaria.
BAUMHOLDER, Germany — Gen. Daniel B. Allyn, the 35th U.S. Army vice chief of staff, visited Smith Barracks May 27 for a ground’s-eye view of 16th Sustainment Brigade activities, as the Knight’s Brigade provides essential logistical support to Anakonda 16.
BYDGOSZCZ, Poland — A Kaiserslautern-based first lieutenant serving with the 16th Sustainment Brigade, 21st Theater Sustainment Command, was promoted to captain by a NATO Polish army colonel in a unique multinational promotion ceremony held outside of the NATO Force Integration Unit headquarters building May 6 in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
TAPA, Estonia — Chaplains from the 21st Theater Sustainment Command’s 16th Sustainment Brigade rode a circuit of major Atlantic Resolve-North hubs across the Baltics region in mid-October, providing religious support, assessing the command climate and refreshing service members’ spiritual resiliency at each stop.
MANNHEIM, Germany — A multinational and multiorganizational team led by the 21st Theater Sustainment Command conducted a critical test of heavy transport trailers from three different nations July 24 at Coleman Barracks in Mannheim. This test verified the feasibility of transporting heavy U.S. tracked vehicles across European highways.
Members of the 16th Sustainment Brigade and 21st Theater Sustain-ment Command, along with other U.S. and Belgian agencies, coordinated and offloaded additional European Activity Set vehicles and equipment April 24 at the port of Antwerp, Belgium.
Allied logisticians off-loaded more than 100 pieces of military equipment, including M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tanks, M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicles and assorted military cargo from the vessel “Liberty Promise” March 9 at the Riga Universal Terminal docks in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve.
Soldiers from the 21st Theater Sustainment Command’s 240th Quartermaster Company, 18th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 16th Sustainment Brigade hosted a professional development session for officers and senior noncommissioned officers from the Air Force’s 86th Logistics Readiness Group Feb. 27 at Smith Barracks in Baumholder.
On a blustery morning in the middle of an isolated German field full of trees and tall grass, Soldiers hoped to witness an event that hadn’t been seen in over eight years. A Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules aircraft cruised toward a drop zone before it began employing a low velocity aerial delivery system, commonly referred to as LVADS, carrying a payload.
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