Sgt. 1st Class Jon Russo of South Amboy completed annual training on Aug. 24 with the 369th Sustainment Brigade Headquarters.
Some 330 soldiers of the New York Army National Guard returned home from training at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, following two weeks of training conducted from Aug. 2 through Aug. 26.
The soldiers of the 369th Sustainment Brigade, the largest contingent of troops, are trained to oversee the operations of logistics and transportation units to provide support for American and allied troops. The 727th Law and Order is a military police unit based at Camp Smith, New York. The 14th Finance, based in Whitestone, New York, provides fiscal services to deployed units.
The 369th Sustainment Brigade is expected to mobilize in the coming weeks for overseas service and a number of these Soldiers will join their unit in preparing for a ten-month deployment later this year. The unit has deployed troops to Mali and Cameroon in support of the United States Africa Command in training exercises with African militaries. Soldiers of the 369th also played a key role in providing logistics support during the New York National Guard’s response to superstorm Sandy in 2012.