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POSNA, Poland – Within the 405th Army Field Support Brigade, NCOs play a key role in the implementation of the command functions of the US army apparatus. But it’s not the first time To provide early preparation to the tactical point of need.
One such NCO is Sgt. Major Roxanne Richards, who provides availability as the sole NCO of the civilian logistics reinforcement programme in Europe, the programme to which she is assigned, known as LOGCAP, supplies critical and outsourcing facilities to forces deployed in contingency operations. and large-scale training such as DEFENDER-Europe 21.
Richards, who holds the professional specialty of the army of market specialist, was reclassified to the MOS as a senior NCO in 2014 as a component of the Army’s previous service program.
“LOGCAP is an army program. Different merchants are guilty of using this program as a way to provide the military with what it needs,” said Richards, who grew up in Trinidad and Tobago and graduated from the best school before coming to the United States to “People think LOGCAP is an entrepreneur, but LOGCAP is not an entity in itself. “
Richards, who holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and French from Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, also held another 3 MOS before an army market specialist.
“I’m a generator mechanic assigned to an air defense artillery brigade. An engineer deployed to Iraq in 2003 with an engineering company that installed the longest operating pipeline in U. S. military history: 225 miles of pipelines. And I’m an administrative specialist,” Richards said.
In the 405th AFSB, Richards first served as an administrative hiring officer with LOGCAP. As an aCO, Richards is guilty of ensuring that all contracts met all government procurement requirements.
But like LOGCAP in Poland, “I can be the link, so to speak, between marketing specialists and non-easy activities,” he said.
As he knows the end result of his experience as a CO, Richards said he can help sets and activities provide their wishes to marketing specialists and, with their help, marketing specialists must seamlessly translate what the government demands and offers. what is needed successfully and cost-effectively.
“We need to get the most productive price for the government. That’s the ultimate goal,” he said.
“It’s the soldiers who get what we supply,” said Richards, who also holds a law degree from the Thursdaymart Marshall Law School at the University of South Texas in Houston. “If the educational environment is smart for the soldier, then the army obtains the merit of the well-trained soldier with the maximum productive apparatus in the maximum productive environment. We provide the right situations for infants to make the most of education. “
Richards was assigned to the 405th AFSB as a LOGCAP professional for only six months, but that time he did a lot; was sent to Mihail Kogilniceanu Air Force Base in Romania for 6 weeks. And now it is founded in Poland and is responsible for all LOGCAP contractual needs for Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary and Poland. And DEFENDER-Europe 21, his daily work also extended to Estonia.
“I think Poland is probably now my permanent assignment where I will paint all the needs of the LOGCAP contract for this total domain of operations,” said Richards, who is a soldier in the active-duty operational reserve component with the 405th AFSB. His parental reserve unit, located in Aberdeen, Maryland, is the 915th Recruitment Battalion.
When he’s serving, he says he likes to travel. The army sent her twice to Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Afghanistan, but said her time in Romania, Germany and Poland had been most pleasant.
“Here I had the opportunity to visit many cathedrals. I’m Catholic, so I’m fascinated by them. It’s great to walk and see a lot of them here in Poland,” Richards said.
“I love to travel so much that I worked part-time for an airline. I recently retired from United Airlines. Because the airlines had been so affected by COVID-19, they filed a lot of redundancy payments, so I accepted one,” Rics said. saying.
“And thanks to the army, I travel, ” he said.
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