“We now have the mission and that everything we have trained and prepared for is now being put to the ultimate test,” said Lt. Col. Robin-Desty Husted, commander of the STB, 1st AD RSSB. “We are excited to finally be in the driver's seat, and really that is what the TOA symbolize, the fact that we now have the wheel.”
The Soldiers spent an immense amount of time and energy training and preparing for this mission. The STB participated in a validation exercise, Warfighter 17.3, that took place in February.
“Our unit conducted many training exercises before deployment, that focused on many of the same tasks we have here in theater,” said Command Sgt. Maj. Jason Porras, the senior enlisted advisor for the STB, 1st AD RSSB.
Porras also stated that the unit spent countless hours training in the field with assigned weapon systems, first-aid, communication, and force protection procedures, were among some of the areas that the Soldiers conducted training.
New missions and responsibilities comes with a new set of trials that the STB is ready to confront.
“Every mission holds a unique set of challenges,” said Husted. “We will ensure that the operations of providing sustainment support to the forces across the country will continue, with our main focus and number one priority remains on the security and protection of the forces here in Afghanistan.”
With the command team knowing that their Soldiers are trained to accomplish the mission and anything that comes their way, they expressed that their number one priority is the safety the Soldiers and civilians that are here in support of the mission.
“Now that the time has come that we are officially in command, our responsibility has greatly increased, not only for the mission and our Soldiers, but for all the other Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines who depend on the sustainment support and services we provide across the combined joint area of operations,” said Husted.
| Date Taken: | 05.29.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 06.01.2017 09:03 |
| Story ID: | 235934 |
| Location: | AF |
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