Story by Staff Sgt. Tawny Schmit June 04, 2021 at 11:19AM 1st Lt. Jacob Bruggeman has spent the last eight months building relationships with the people who live and work in the Ferizaj/Urosevac municipality in Kosovo. Bruggeman serves as the officer in charge of the Kilo 21 Liaison Monitoring Team, one of several LMTs that support the peacekeeping mission assigned to Regional Command-East, Kosovo Force. Now, Bruggeman and his team are wrapping up their KFOR rotation – but he grasped one last opportunity to strengthen the partnership with the Ferizaj/Urosevac Fire Department before returning home. Knowing that the station grapples with insufficient funds and understaffing, Bruggeman reached out to the Camp Bondsteel Fire Department and coordinated a donation of 140 sections of hoses that could no longer be used on base, along with truck adaptors and nozzles.
