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1st Theater Sustainment Command


News Stories

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1st TSC safety officer shares love of mountain biking with local community

March 23, 2021 — If you’ve ever mountain biked or hiked at Saunders Springs Nature Preserve, then you’ve spent time on trails built by a 1st Theater Sustainment Command civilian employee and veteran. MORE
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Army chaplains given facts, science regarding COVID-19 vaccines

March 23, 2021 — A U.S. Army Central Command microbiologist briefed the development history of the three major COVID-19 vaccines to a contingent of U.S. Army chaplains and their enlisted Army religious affairs specialists at a meeting held March 15 at the Area Support Group–Kuwait chaplains office. MORE
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Adjutant General Corps senior enlisted leader conducts professional development

March 22, 2021 — The Command Sergeant Major of the Adjutant General School visited Fort Knox’s Olive Theater recently to meet with Soldiers, discuss changes to the school, and encourage participation in available programs as part of leadership professional development. MORE
Command sergeant major speaks to soldiers

Camp Arifjan deployed Soldiers earn Norwegian Foot March badge under desert sun

March 21, 2021 — CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait -- Army Reserve Col. Garrett Kolo, deployed with the 310th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), was the top finisher in the Norwegian Foot March competition held here March 7 and March 14. Kolo outpaced the other 461 participants who attempted the 18.6-mile course with a 25-pound ruck under their age groups’ time limit. MORE
Norwegian Army 1st Lt. Havard Boge fist bumps Army Reserve Brig. Gen. Justin Swanson, the commanding general of the 310th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) during the March 21, 2021 recognition ceremony at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, for the 328 U.S. and coalition military personnel who earned the Norwegian Foot March badge. Boge, who represented the Norwegian Army at the ceremony, finished 18.6-mile course with a 25-pound ruck with the second fastest time when he crossed the finish line at 2 hours and 54 minutes. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Neil W. McCabe)

1st TSC participates in stand down for violent extremism

March 15, 2021 — There is no place for violent extremism in the U.S. Army. That was the message that soldiers and civilian employees in the 1st Theater Sustainment Command received when they participated in an extremism stand down here March 10. MORE
Secretary of Defense speaks via Microsoft Teams

Camp Arifjan senior leaders show confidence during one-shot COVID-19 vaccine rollout

March 13, 2021 — Senior military leaders here joined the March 13 rollout of Operation Med Spear, which is the expansion of COVID-19 vaccination for all civilian and military personnel in the U.S. Central Command footprint. "Operation Med Spear is something we have been working towards in this theater for many, many months," said Army Reserve Brig. Gen. Justin Swanson, who was vaccinated at the event, and is the deputy commanding general of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command. MORE
Army Reserve Sgt. Richard Liggans, a resident of Buffalo, New York, deployed to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, with the 228th Combat Support Hospital, where he serves at the noncommission officer-in-charge of the camp's Troop Medical Clinic, loads a syringe with the Janssen Biotech COVID-19 vaccine at the camp's March 13, 2021 rollout of Operation Med Spear. Unlike other vaccines, the Janssen vaccine is administered with just one shot, not two. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Neil W. McCabe)

1st TSC and Marines airdrop medical supplies, food to forward personnel

March 11, 2021 — Soldiers with the 1st Theater Sustainment Command's operational command post, or 1st TSC-OCP, headquartered here, successfully executed joint airdrop missions with a Marine C-130J Hercules aircrew and Army riggers in the U.S. Central Command's area of operations. MORE
Marine crewmembers in partnering with 1st Theater Sustainment Support-Operations Command Post, headquarters at Camp Arijan, Kuwait, watch the last of nine airdrop pallets deploy from back of their C-130J Heracles during Feb. 23, 2021 mission. The crew dropped pallets to three different sites inside the U.S. Central Command area of operations with medical supplies, food and other materiel. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Neil McCabe)

The Army’s Funded Legal Education Program provides new opportunity for 1st TSC commissioned officer

March 8, 2021 — With clear skies and the sun shining, a commissioned officer from DeWitt, Michigan, stood tall as his infantry branch insignia was removed and replaced with his new Judge Advocate General insignia. A moment that signified the beginning of a new career path made possible through the Army’s Funded Legal Education Program. MORE
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Army Reserve Soldiers deployed to Camp Arifjan reflect on Black History Month

March 1, 2021 — Army Reserve Soldiers deployed here shared their thoughts about Black History Month and Black culture in America. MORE
Army Reserve Chief Warrant Officer Denrick Mills, an air mobility warrant officer deployed to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, with the 310th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), said his favorite Black History story is the Triple Nickel “smokejumpers.” In 1945, the all-black 555th Airborne Infantry Battalion was ordered to Oregon to fight forest fires started by nature and by incendiary-bearing balloons sent into West Coast forests by the Japanese. “They used this airborne unit to jump in an put the fire out—that’s how the smokejumpers started,” he said.

Ambassador praises Army Reserve medical Soldiers

February 24, 2021 — The United States ambassador to Kuwait honored three Army Reserve Soldiers Thursday at a ceremony at the U.S. embassy here for rendering first aid to a pedestrian struck on a highway. MORE
Ambassador praises Army Reserve medical Soldiers

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