The 405th Army Field Support Brigade (405th AFSB) is stationed at Kaiserslautern,

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. 405th AFSB is under operational control ( OPCON) of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command (21st TSC), a command of

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component of

EUCOM The United States European Command (EUCOM) is one of the eleven Unified Combatant Command, unified combatant commands of the United States military, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Its area of focus covers and 51 countries and territorie ...

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. Eleanor Prohaska (27 April 2021) Memphis logistics pro sets the stage for DEFENDER-Europe 2
/ref> 405th AFSB sources from Army Pre-positioned Stock-2 ( APS-2) to provision units. 405th AFSB is currently supporting Defender Europe 21, a 28,000-troop exercise of EUCOM and

NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...

, from 26 countries, ranging from the Baltics to Morocco. Defender Europe 2021 will run from March til June 2021, involving dozens of operations. (5/22/2021) Video: American forces in Europe, and multidomain operations , Defense News Weekly Full Episode, 5.22.21
26:19Todd South (15 Mar 2021) Massive, Army-led NATO exercise Defender Europe kicks off
Defender Europe 2021Cameron Porter, 405th AFSB Public Affairs Officer (4 May 2021) Equipment, vehicles issued to units in Estonia for DEFENDER-Europe 21
drawn from APS-2 Lorne Cook (30 May 2021) As Russia tensions simmer, NATO conducts massive war games
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