Cavalry unit, garrison team up ahead of deployment
Sep 28, 2009
By Mark Heeter (USAG Schweinfurt)
SCHWEINFURT, Germany - With the clanking of hammers nailing chock blocks into one end of the train car, a crane parked near the rail head on Conn Barracks gently placed a huge container down on the other end of the flat bed Sept. 25.
The Airborne Cav is on their way.
"They couldn't have done it without us. We couldn't have done it without them," said Steve Grandison, chief of plans and operations for the USAG Schweinfurt Directorate of Logistics, referring to the Soldiers of the 1st Squadron, 91st Cavalry Regiment (Airborne).
The Soldiers, joined by staff members from several garrison agencies, loaded their equipment in the Installation Staging Area (ISA), an early step in the upcoming deployment to Afghanistan.
The partnership between the deploying unit and the garrison is nothing new, said Eddi Sauer, USAG Schweinfurt safety manager, turning to Sgt. Charles McKee, Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, who was the noncommissioned officer-in-charge on-site Friday.
"Last week he came by to check on the safety procedures," Sauer said, adding that he or his safety-office colleague must be on hand for all rail-loading operations.
"I've got to have my guys safe," said McKee said, before noting that, while a challenge, cross-agency coordination has been a success for the squadron.
"The garrison agencies are working perfectly," McKee said. "I made it a point to work with them early to build the relationships."
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