FORT HOOD, Texas - It happens all over the world from time to time.Closets, drawers, garages and attics get purged of unnecessary, unused and broken items; and the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, has been long overdue for a bit of housekeeping. "3rd Brigade is doing a brigade-wide excess turn-in of equipment," said Maj. Michael Spears, the 3rd ABCT logistics officer. The push to purge the unit of excess equipment was jump-started when Soldiers from the 6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd ABCT, laid out of all the unit's equipment, to include the excess, in the motor pool. At the time, Gen. Robert Abrams, U.S. Forces Command commanding general, was visiting and saw firsthand the excess equipment problem.
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