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# DLA Aviation employees remember 9/11: Roy Drake

By  DLA Aviation Public Affairs Office

                Richmond, Va.  –              
*In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation Public Affairs Office is running a week-long series Sept. 6-11 telling the stories of DLA Aviation employees who remember where they were and what they were doing that fateful day.*

**Name:**Roy Drake

**Organization:**DLA Aviation, Richmond, Virginia

**What is your job title, and what do you do, specifically?**I’m the deputy chief for the Customer Operations Directorate’s Marine Corps Customer Facing Division. I lead and manage teams supporting the mission, multiple military weapon systems, and tactical, operational and strategic military customers.

**Please tell where you were and what you were doing on Sept. 11, 2001.**On September 11, 2001, I was sitting on my bed in lodging in Monterey, California, preparing to move my family into housing around the end of my first semester at the Naval Postgraduate School.  As I was reading my emails, I realized that my family was glued to the TV. I realized after looking at the TV, the events on 9/11 were happening and were very tragic.

I felt an overwhelming desire to do something, so I sent an email to my counselor at the school and told him that if there were any opportunities to deploy and serve in a logistics capacity, I was willing to go. My family fully supported it. The next morning, there were a lot of students in my counselor’s office requesting to deploy as well. Shortly thereafter, I executed orders to Bahrain under the Joint Forces Maritime Component Command in October 2001. I served six months between my first and second semesters of Naval Postgraduate School.

While in Bahrain, the Naval Central Command Logistics Readiness Cell was established in support of 9/11 efforts, and I served as a section watch captain and logistics team lead. I returned to the U.S. after six months, then visited “ground zero” in New York City, and ultimately returned to Naval Postgraduate School to complete my Master’s in Business Administration. 

**What can we do to ensure future generations never forget that fateful day?**Convey value-added documentaries and show the history and events of 9/11 via electronic mechanisms/venues that future generations will be interested in viewing or reading. A visit to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City would be another recommendation.

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