///// The 557th Engineer Company, the 864th Engineering Battalion, and the 555th Engineering Battalion performed preventive maintenance checks and services (PMCS) inspections of equipment they received from the Left Behind Equipment program, managed by the 404th Army Field Support Brigade.
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he 404th Army Field Support Brigade (AFSB), located at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, is a mission-focused, modular organization, designed to project logistics power to the U.S. expeditionary Army. The brigade has three subordinate battalions: Army Field Support Battalions (AFSBn)-Hawaii, AFSBn-Lewis, and AFSBn-Alaska, three logistics support teams (Fort Irwin, Fort Wainwright, and Fort Huachuca), seven brigade logistics support teams, and two combat aviation battalions. The 404th provides direct support to corps, division, and installation-level activities with AFSBns. Brigade logistics support teams serve with brigade combat teams and logistics support teams serve separate units and areas. Among the missions managed by the 404th are Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN), Left Behind Equipment, reset, Pre-deployment Training Equipment, Defense Support to Civil Authorities, life cycle management commands (LCMC) maintenance activity synchronization, Logistics Civil Augmentation Program, and workload management of Directorates of Logistics. An integral part of the 404th AFSB, logistics assistance representatives from U.S. Army Materiel Command’s LCMCs provide “muddy-boot” technical support. History The 404th AFSB was activated on Oct. 16, 2007, with a mission to manage all Logistics Assistance Programs, ARFORGEN
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and reset missions as the single point of entry to AMC for units on the Pacific Rim, excluding Korea. LSE-Forward Stryker was established at Fort Lewis, Wash., in FY 2003 as a subordinate unit of AMC, continental United States. The unit organized the first Stryker LSE that year and prepared to deploy to Southwest Asia. LSE-Forward Stryker was reorganized in FY 2004 as AMC Forward Stryker, a direct subordinate unit to the Army Field Support Command, predecessor to the Army Sustainment Command. The mission of AMC Forward Stryker was expanded in FY 2005 to provide command and control of the Logistics Assistance Program in the Pacific Rim. AMC Forward Stryker became the AFSB-Pacific on Aug. 15, 2005. The AFSB-Pacific’s area of responsibility and mission support requirements expanded, to an emphasis on reset, pre-deployment training and preparation, and transformation of the 25th Infantry Division, 45th Corps Support Group (now 8th TSC), and separate units of the U.S. Army, Hawaii. AFSB-Pacific created the first Brigade Logistics Support Teams in FY 2005. When the Army Field Support Brigade-Pacific was renamed the 404th Army Field Support Brigade-Pacific, it was completely involved in reset and ARFORGEN. During FY 2007 its mission expanded to include responsibility for the LSEs at Fort Irwin, Fort Huachuca, Hawaii, Alaska, and Fort Lewis. Activated on Oct. 16, 2008, the 404th AFSB proudly continues its mission: “Sustain to Win.”
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404th Army Field Support Brigade