George Takacs, a biomedical equipment technician with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency, works on a field aspirator Nov. 2 while on a temporary duty, or TDY, assignment to Army Prepositioned Stocks-2, known as APS-2, in Germany. Takacs is an experienced technician from USAMMA’s Medical Maintenance Operations Division in Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, who has gone TDY on many occasions to support medical readiness over his 19 years of federal civilian service, including to many sites outside of the continental U.S.

A trainer with the Business Support Office at the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency conducts onsite Defense Medical Logistics-Enterprise Solutions training with an Army medical logistics company preparing to deploy. The training events include a culminating exercise where Soldiers put their knowledge and skills to the test in a real-world scenario.