‘I’M A DEFENDER’" - Roger Straeten
EYGELSHOVEN, Netherlands – As part of DEFENDER 25, the 405th Army Field Support Brigade’s Battalion Benelux conducted an Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 equipment issue to the 59th Chemical Company (Hazardous Response) at the Eygelshoven Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in the Netherlands during the second week of May. More than 200 APS-2 major end items were issued to the U.S.-based Soldiers from Fort Drum, N.Y., deployed to Europe for DEFENDER 25. Items included several NBC reconnaissance vehicles and Humvees, 5-ton trucks, almost 20 light medium tactical vehicles, a wrecker, and more. Dozens of radios and receivers/transmitters were also issued as well as NBC decontamination equipment, containers, generators, trailers, tools and test kits, and more.