408th Support Brigade (United States)

408th Contracting Support Brigade
Country United States
Allegiance United States Army
Type Support brigade
Role Arranging Contracts
Part of U.S. Army Materiel Command
Garrison/HQ Camp Arifjan, Kuwait
Nickname(s) 408th CSB
Motto(s) "CONFERRE AB CONFIRMATUS" (Focused and Determined)[1]
Website www.army.mil/info/organization/unitsandcommands/commandstructure/acc
Commanders
Current
commander		 Colonel Michelle Sanner
Insignia
Distinctive unit insignia

The 408th Contracting Support Brigade is a contracting support unit in the United States Army with headquarters at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. It is a unit in the United States Army Contracting Command.

The brigade provides operational contracting support to United States Army Central (USARCENT) as the Lead Contract Service throughout Southwest Asia. The brigade prepares and coordinates support plans, provides oversight, assessment, policy and acquisition authority to assigned contingency contracting organizations and contracting assets deployed in support of the USARCENT mission.[2]

Commanders

Commander Date assumed command
Colonel Joseph L. Bass June 29, 2007
Colonel Shane Dietrich June 6, 2008[3]
Colonel Michael J. Rogers June 25, 2010[4]
Colonel David Kaczmarski June 20, 2012[5]
Colonel Phillip E. Smallwood TBD
Colonel Michelle Sanner June 15, 2016[6]

References

  1. ↑ 408th Support Battalion Heraldry, The Institute of Heraldry (TIOH), Washington, DC. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  2. ↑ About Expeditionary Sustainment Command, 408th Contracting Support Brigade link. Accessed 17 July 2016.
  3. ↑ Expeditionary Contracting Command accepts first unit, 408th CSB changes hands, Jim Hinnant, 6 June 2008. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  4. ↑ Rogers assumes command of the 408th Contracting Support Brigade, Army Contracting Command, 8 July 2010. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  5. ↑ 408th CSB from BG Theodore Harrison during today's Change of Command, Twitter status update, 20 Jun 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  6. ↑ 408th CSB's Facebook, 17 June 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2016.


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