- + Mobilizing a globally engaged Army one customer at a time—JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. Nov. 19, 2020 —Strategic readiness is the Army’s capability to rapidly mobilize and deploy forces anywhere in the world...
- + Flu-shot season kicks off at Joint Base Langley-Eustis—JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. Oct. 30, 2020 —Soldiers assigned to the Ready One Detachment of the 688th Rapid Port Opening Element (RPOE) were first ...
- + 597th Transportation Brigade embraces safeguards to protect Army networks during Cybersecurity Awareness Month—JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. Oct. 27, 2020 —Many Soldiers and civilians assigned to the 597th Transportation Brigade are participating in virtual me...
- + Commander emphasizes diversity, inclusion across brigade—JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. Sept. 29, 2020 —The U.S. Army recently announced it would take immediate action to improve inclusion across the force a...
- + AMC's top leader recognizes Surface Warriors for contributions to sustainment mission—JOINT BASE LANGLEY - EUSTIS, Va. – U.S. Army Materiel Command’s top leader and senior sustainer Gen. Ed Daly recognized Soldiers and civilians for the...
- + 690th Wolfpack Welcomes New Commander to Fort Eustis—Today, the Wolfpack welcomed a new commander into its fold during a Change of Command Ceremony at Fort Eustis, Virginia's Transportation Museum. Maki...
- + 597th Trans. Bde. Goes Into Warfighting Mode—The headquarters staff of the 597th Transportation Brigade have gone into warfighting mode today as exercise Turbo Challenge 19 kicks off at Fort Eust...
- + It Takes an Army...to Move an Army—In the early morning hours on Jan. 12, the sound of whirling turbine blades could be heard warming up engines prior to the start of a current military...
- + 689th RPOE Soldiers Honor Hampton's Fallen—Soldiers from the 597th Transportation Brigade, 832nd Transportation Battalion, 689th Rapid Port Opening Element gave of their time to honor the thous...
- + The heart and soul of an American Warrior—Each year the Army holds a competition to find the best of the best. When all is said and done, there will be one junior enlisted Soldier and one Non...
- + 597th Trans. Bde. hosts SHARP Forum—The 597th Transportation Brigade hosted the second Surface Deployment and Distribution Command Semi-Annual SHARP Performance Improvement Forum (PIF) 2...
- + America's Newest Citizen—NORFOLK, Virginia - Monday was a very special day for Sgt. 1st Class Yao Benie and his wife Madeleine. It was at 10:30 a.m., April 16 at Hampton, Vir...
- + The Experience of Survival - Remembering the Holocaust—Holocaust Remembrance Day honors survivors, liberators, righteous gentiles and remembers the victims of the holocaust.
- + Baseball Great and the Fort Eustis Connection—Better known for playing baseball, Willie Mays was also a Fort Eustis Soldier
- + 596th Trans. Bde. Welcomes New Command Sergeant Major to MOTSU—Mission Ocean Terminal Sunny Point welcomes new command sergeant major.
- + JBLE unit partners with FEMA in Puerto Rico humanitarian mission—Military Sealift Command's USNS Brittin arrived at the Port of Ponce, Puerto Rico, Nov. 3, 2017, loaded with power-generation equipment and other supp...
- + JBLE-based brigade supports joint mission to Puerto Rico—U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 597th Transportation Brigade, headquartered at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, connected with agency partners ...
- + 597th Trans. Bde. Welcomes New Command Sergeant Major—Command Sgt. Maj. Brian M. O'Leary new 597th Trans. Bde. command sergeant major
- + 597th Transportation Brigade: 2016 Year in Review—The 597th Transportation Brigade was quite literally all over the map in 2016 doing what it does best -- providing rapid support for deployments, huma...
- + 597th OCCA conducts site visit to NSGB—For the first time in 597th Transportation Brigade history, members of the unit's 597th Ocean Cargo Clearance Authority (OCCA) conducted a site visit ...
- + 688th RPOE meet "Media on the Battlefield"—Soldiers from the 688th Rapid Port Opening Element wrapped up four days of field training last week in which they found themselves getting grilled by...
- + Meet Your Army: 597th captain continues family tradition of service—Growing up a military brat in Fayetteville, North Carolina, near Fort Bragg, the odds of continuing a tradition of military service to the country inc...
- + 597th Trans. Bde. sweeps SDDC Best Warrior Competition—The 597th Transportation Brigade pulled a clean sweep at the 2017 Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) Best Warrior Competition...
- + Meet Your Army: 597th's Corey Kerzmann likes to help, loves to ride—Corey Kerzmann, joined the 597th Transportation Brigade team Feb. 5 and is currently serving as a mission support specialist.
- + Meet Your Army: 597th Transportation Brigade Soldier joined to help preserve freedom for humanity—Sgt. 1st Class Yao Fiendi Benie came to the 597th Transportation Brigade in July and served as a training noncommissioned officer with the S-3 operati...
- + 597th Transportation Brigade announces Best Warrior Competition winners—About 26 Soldiers' names were originally submitted for the 597th Transportation Brigade's 2017 Best Warrior Competition. The numbers dropped steadi...
- + Meet Your Army: 597th captain joined to do great things—Growing up in Mississippi, little did he know that an Army career spanning 10 years and counting, would await him.
- + RPOE Soldiers demonstrate expertise during marksmanship course—Rapid Port Opening Element Soldiers flourished during a basic rifle marksmanship course Jan. 23 to Feb. 3 at Fort Eustis Ranges 2 and 3.
- + Meet Your Army: Soldier-turned-civilian returns to 597th Transportation Brigade—Armando Kuppinger Velasquez is once again a member of the 597th Transportation Brigade -- taking a position as a member of the Joint Task Force-Port O...
- + Meet Your Army: 597th sergeant, three brothers, currently serve in Army—Sgt. Jharrod Evans, cargo specialist with 597th Transportation Brigade's 842nd Transportation Battalion at Beaumont, Texas, has served in the Army for...
- + Meet Your Army: Sgt. David Dell, 597th Transportation Brigade Soldier, reflects on accomplishments—Sgt. David Dell is a senior forklift operator with the 689th Rapid Port Opening Element/833rd Transportation Battalion/597th Transportation Brigade. D...
- + 597th Transportation Brigade leaders take TAMIS training course—597th Transportation Brigade, 833rd Transportation Battalion, and Rapid Port Opening Element leaders completed a two-day training course Nov. 30, at t...
- + Meet Your Army: 597th's Scott Matthews takes over as new PNW-DET director—Michael "Scott" Matthews succeeded Miguel Jimenez Nov. 13 as the director of the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC)/597th Tra...
- + RPOE deployments to be documented—When the 689th Rapid Port Opening Element deployed to Haiti in October as part of Joint Task Force Hurricane Matthew, it marked the third time in six ...
- + Meet Your Army: Marvin Key, a proud, well-traveled transporter with 597th Trans. Bde.—Marvin Key is a traffic management specialist supervisor with the 597th Transportation Brigade and the mission of working with transportation is somet...
- + 597th Trans. Bde. units undergo extensive process before uploading, transporting cargo—The 597th Transportation Brigade was responsible for the movement of about 34,000 pieces of unit equipment and vehicles in Fiscal Year 2016.
- + A Grandmother's letters to troops at war…—During wartime, separation from loved ones has always been a hardship that both soldiers and their families have had to overcome. Though the methods ...
- + 597th Trans. Bde. reaps benefits of DA intern program—The 597th Transportation Brigade has reaped the benefits through a member of the Department of the Army Logistics Management Intern Program based out ...
- + 689th RPOE JAT arrives in Haiti in response to Hurricane Matthew—A joint assessment team from the 689th Rapid Port Opening Element arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 6, as part of a disaster relief/humanitarian ...
- + Meet Your Army: 597th Trans. Bde. transportation specialist felt a calling—Brian Ridgway is a transportation specialist with the 597th Transportation Brigade. "When the twin towers fell, I felt the calling to help my country ...
- + Meet Your Army: 597th Transportation Brigade supply specialist reflects on career, Hispanic Heritage—Born Orlando Perez Sanchez, Tony Perez, as he is better known now, is the 597th Transportation Brigade (Fort Eustis, Virginia) supply specialist and a...
- + Meet Your Army: Spc. Sokuntea Say, 597th Transportation Brigade—Spc. Sokuntea Say is a movement specialist with the 597th Transportation Brigade's 841st Transportation Battalion at Joint Base Charleston, South Caro...
- + AMC commander emphasizes readiness, teamwork during visit to 597th Transportation Brigade—The commanding general, U.S. Army Materiel Command, paid a visit to 597th Transportation Brigade headquarters Aug. 15 to discuss among other things --...
- + 597th Soldier uses eclectic martial art to harness confidence—It all started in 2006 when his dad called into a radio show in Missouri, won a prize, went to the station with his son to pick it up, and saw a dojan...
- + 597th Transportation Brigade hosts LTG West for Women's Equality Day—The 597th Transportation Brigade hosted the first African-American female lieutenant general and highest-ranking woman to graduate from the U.S. Milit...
- + 689th RPOE test skills during TD 16-3 joint exercise—About 50 Soldiers from the 689th Rapid Port Opening Element worked with about 130 Airmen with the Air Force's 621st Contingency Response Wing and a te...
- + SDDC/597th Supports JLOTS Exercise in Pacific Northwest—Soldiers and civilians of the 597th Transportation Brigade spent about two weeks in early June supporting Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore 2016 in Washi...
- + Fort Eustis Soldiers help make day special for children—NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia -- Eighteen Soldiers from Fort Eustis' 689th Rapid Port Opening Element provided local support during the recent 45th Annual Ge...
- + 597th Trans. Bde. employs unique methods and skills in Texas exercise—PORT ARTHUR, Texas --Shortly before sunset, April 18, the U.S. Naval Ship Benavidez left the vast expanse of the Atlantic Ocean and made its way up th...
- + 841st Trans. Bn. Makes Transportation Safety Job One—Twenty military and civilian transportation specialists from the 841st Transportation Battalion at the Port of Charleston, S.C., are wrapping up an in...
- + Lean Six Sigma Enhances 689th Rapid Port Opening Element Organizational Readiness—Lean Six Sigma is a business process which focuses on mentoring organizations and people in the much sought after end-state of increasing both their p...
- + 690th RPOE - Fighting wars in virtual reality—The virtual reality training is a fully immersive, interactive, real-time training system which requires no fuel, bullets, ranges, support personnel o...
- + 597th Trans. Bde. brings home SDDC Excellence Awards—Twelve Soldiers and Civilians of the 597th Transportation Brigade travelled from their units in Charleston, S.C., Beaumont, Texas, Fort Eustis, Va. an...
- + SDDC Alaska Detachment: An Army of One—Pacific Northwest Detachment Civilian is literally an Army of one. William "Bill" Plummer, Marine Cargo Specialist for Pacific Northwest-Alaska, is s...
- + 597th Trans. Bde begins training for new responsibilities—Transportation scheduling and contracting responsibilities will move from Scott Air Force Base to the 597th Trasnportation Brigade at Fort Eustis.
- + Soldiers put turbo in Mississippi distribution exercise—Fifty Soldiers, from the Fort Eustis, Virginia-based 689th Rapid Port Opening Element wrapped up their latest weeklong Turbo Distribution 16-1 exercis...
- + 688th RPOE Soldiers Improving Humanity and Homes in Hampton Roads—HAMPTON, Virginia -- Twenty-six Fort Eustis Soldiers from the 688th Rapid Port Opening Element, 833rd Transportation Battalion, 597th Transportation B...
- + 597th Trans Bde. Welcomes New Command Sergeant Major—Command Sgt. Maj. Jerome Smalls is new command sergeant major for 597th Trans. Bde.
- + 690th RPOE epitomizes "Turbo Distribution" in Lakehurst exercise—JOINT BASE McGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, New Jersey (July 24, 2015) -- More than 50 Soldiers from the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command's ...
- + 597th Trans. Bde. welcomes new commander—Army Col. Stephen Riley assumed command of the 597th Transportation Brigade in a ceremony on Fort Eustis June 19.
- + SDDC names 2015 Best Warriors—The Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command named 597th Transportation Brigade Soldiers Spc. Austi-Ana Lamb, its 2015 Soldier of the Year...
- + 842nd Trans. Bn. gets 25th ID one step closer to Fort Polk—BEAUMONT, Texas (April 26, 2015) -- As the USNS Mendonca skirted under the Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge near Port Arthur, Texas, with only four feet ...
- + 688th RPOE Soldier honored for volunteer service—Joint Base Langley-Eustis (April 15, 2015) -- Army Sgt. Anthony C. Robles, Motor Transport Operator for the 688th Rapid Port Opening Element, 833rd Tr...
- + 597th Transportation Brigade selects "Best Warriors"—FORT EUSTIS, Va. (April 24, 2015) -- The 597th Transportation Brigade recognized its "Best Warriors" yesterday by naming Pfc. David Dell, 689th Rapid ...
- + 841st Trans. Bn. Celebrates SDDC's 50th Anniversary—Joint base Charleston, S.C. - The Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) officially kicks off its 50th Anniversary Feb. 20, and t...
- + 688 RPOE Soldier Spearheads Eustis Bone Marrow Drive—JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. (Feb. 5, 2014) -- U.S. Army Spc. Ashley Saahir, Information Technology Specialist for the 688 Rapid Port Opening Elemen...
- + 841st Trans. Bn., Training in the "Real World"—JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. (Dec. 19, 2014) -- The 841st Trans. Bn., based at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., recently wrapped up ten days of training De...
- + 597th Trans. Bde. Spreads Holiday Cheer—Fort Eustis, Va. - In a secret undisclosed location on Fort Eustis, Soldiers from the 597th Transportation Brigade work stealthily on their submission...
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