Balancing Readiness and

Resources

Joint Logistics Fireside Chat NDIA Logistics Conference

27 March 2012

LtGen Brooks Bash Director for Logistics, Joint Staff (J4)

• Commands

– Vice Commander, Pacific Air Forces

– 321st Air Expeditionary Wing, Iraq

– Coalition Air Force Training Team, Iraq

– 15th Expeditionary Mobility Task Force

– 437th Airlift Wing

– 89th Operations Group

– 6th & 4413th Air Refueling Squadrons

• Director of Operations, Air Mobility Command

• Air Component Coordination Element (Operation

Tomodachi)

• Deputy Executive Secretary, National Security Council,

Office of the President (Clinton and Bush

Administrations)

• Deputy Director, Mobility Forces (Operations Enduring

and Iraqi Freedom

• Director, Mobility Forces (Operation Unified

Assistance)

• Over 6,500 flight hours in 16 different aircraft

LTG Kathleen Gainey Deputy Commander, USTRANSCOM

• Commands

– Commanding General, Surface Deployment

and Distribution Command (Scott AFB, IL)

– Defense Distribution Center (New

Cumberland, PA)

– 7th Corps Support Group

– 6th Transportation Battalion

• Special Assistant, Army Chief of Staff

• Chief, Joint Operations Division, USTRANSCOM

• Director, Force Projection and Distribution, Army

G-4

• Deputy Chief of Staff, Resources and Sustainment,

MNF-I (Operation Iraqi Freedom)

• Director for Logistics, J4, the Joint Staff

VADM Mark Harnitchek Director, Defense Logistics Agency

• Sea tours:

– Submarines: USS Will Rogers & USS Buffalo

– Surface Ships: USS Holland & USS Proteus

– Carrier: USS Theodore Roosevelt

• Shore tours:

– Commander, Submarine Group 7

– Navy Ships Parts Control Center

– Naval Air Station Oceana, VA

– Chief of Naval Operations Staff

• Flag Officer assignments:

– Deputy Commander, USTRANSCOM

– Director, USCENTCOM Deployment and

Distribution Operations Center (CDDOC)

– Director, Strategy, Policy, Programs & Logistics

(J5/4), USTRANSCOM

– Vice Director for Logistics (J4) Joint Chiefs of

Staff

– Commanding Officer, Naval Inventory Control

Point

Lt Gen Judith Fedder Deputy Chief of Staff, Logistics, Installations and Mission

Support, HQ USAF (A4/7)

• Commands

– 76th Maintenance Wing

– 65th Air Base Wing & Sub-unified

Commander of US Forces Azores

– 31st Logistics Group

– 46th Equipment Maintenance Squadron

– 46th Component Repair Squadron

• Chief, Logistics Management (Operations

Proven Force and Provide Comfort)

• Deputy Directory, Office of Legislative Liaison,

Secretary of the Air force

• Director of Logistics, Air Combat Command

• Director of Logistics, Deputy chief of Staff for

Logistics, Installations, and Mission Support,

HQ, USAF

LTG Ray Mason Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics (G-4)

• Commands

– Commanding General, 8th Theater Support

Command

– Commanding General, 19th Sustainment

Command (Expeditionary)

– Army Materiel Command Forward-

Southwest Asia

– Defense Supply Center Philadelphia

– Division Support Command, 25th Infantry

Division (Light)

– 407th Forward Support Battalion, 82nd

Airborne Division

• Deputy Chief of Staff (G-4), US Forces

Command

• C-4, Coalition Forces Land Component

Command, Kuwait

• Deputy Commander, US Army Field Support

Command

MajGen Charles Hudson Commanding General, Marine Corps Logistics Command

• Commands

– CG, 1st Marine Logistics Group and 1st Marine Logistics Group (Fwd)

– CO, Combat Logistics Regiment 15, 1st Marine Logistics Group

– CO, 1st Force Service Support Group

• Chief of Staff, Logistics Directorate, USCENTCOM

• Maritime Prepositioning Force Program Officer, I MEF

• G-4 Operations Officer, I MEF

• G-3 Operations Officer, 1st Force Service Support Group

RADM Kathleen Dussault Director, Logistics Programs and Corporate Operations

Division (OPNAV N41)

• Ship Assignments – USS Point Loma (AGDS 2), Trident supply support

– USS Concord (AFS 5), Operations Desert

Shield/Desert Storm

– USS Seattle (AOE 3), 5th Fleet

• Shore Assignments – Deputy, Missile Systems Acquisition, Naval Air

Systems Command

– Commander, Special Projects Office, Arlington, VA

– Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for

Acquisition and Logistics Management

• Joint Assignments – Commander, Defense Distribution Depot, San

Diego

– Deputy Director, Acquisition Management,

Defense Logistics Agency

– Commander, Joint Contracting Command

Iraq/Afghanistan, Baghdad, Iraq

– Director, TF 2010, Kabul, Afghanistan

Balancing Readiness and

Resources

Joint Logistics Fireside Chat NDIA Logistics Conference

27 March 2012