A small group of Soldiers from the 1993^rd Contingency Contracting Team will hold a departure ceremony June 5, 2020 in the auditorium at the Utah National Guard’s Draper headquarters, ahead of their deployment to the U.S. Central Command area of operations.

The 1993^rd Contingency Contracting team will mobilize to U.S. CENTCOM to support the contracting and acquisitions operations of the 408^th Contracting Support Brigade. The mission of the 408^th CSB is to provide enhanced readiness and operational capacity for U.S. forces by providing contracted commercial capability and business advice to support Sustaining, Shaping, and Decisive operations.

“My team has been training and preparing for more than two years for this mission to support the warfighter through all aspects of acquisition and contract management,” said Maj. Earl Simmons, team leader. “I feel honored to lead such a highly qualified team.”

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the governor's social distancing guidelines, we are not able to invite media at this time.  

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A small group of Soldiers from the 1993^rd Contingency Contracting Team will hold a departure ceremony June 5, 2020 in the auditorium at the Utah National Guard’s Draper headquarters, ahead of their deployment to the U.S. Central Command area of operations.

The 1993^rd Contingency Contracting team will mobilize to U.S. CENTCOM to support the contracting and acquisitions operations of the 408^th Contracting Support Brigade. The mission of the 408^th CSB is to provide enhanced readiness and operational capacity for U.S. forces by providing contracted commercial capability and business advice to support Sustaining, Shaping, and Decisive operations.

“My team has been training and preparing for more than two years for this mission to support the warfighter through all aspects of acquisition and contract management,” said Maj. Earl Simmons, team leader. “I feel honored to lead such a highly qualified team.”

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the governor's social distancing guidelines, we are not able to invite media at this time.  

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More photos available to download on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/utahnationalguard/albums In general, all media on the site is produced by U.S. DoD or Federal Agencies, and is in the public domain, i.e., not protected by U.S. copyright; however, other restrictions might apply, such as, but not limited to, the right to enforce trademarks, and the right of privacy/right of publicity, any of which might restrict use of some of the media. Media may not be used to imply endorsement of any product or service by the DoD. Proper credit of the producing journalist(s) is requested.