# DLA Energy announces second quarter awardees

/ Published May 12, 2017
FORT BELVOIR, Virginia, 
Defense Logistics Agency Energy recognized outstanding employees and teams for their performance during the second quarter of fiscal year 2017.

DLA Energy Commander Air Force Brig. Gen. Martin Chapin announced the winners in an email to the Energy workforce April 26. 

“Please help me in congratulating these awesome teammates for their amazing accomplishments,” Chapin wrote. 

Military winners are: Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Teresa Harris, Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Larry Lyons, Army Sgt. 1st Class Stacy Mouzon and Army Staff Sgt. Oscar Garcia.

Harris, with DLA Energy Pacific, won in the field grade officer category. Her accomplishments include developing a comprehensive contingency inventory matrix to improve decision making for U.S. Forces Korea exercises, coordinating emergency fuel support to Operation Pacific Reach to ensure life support for advanced party personnel and organizing DLA support for the physical connection of the Inland Pipeline Distribution System to the Republic of Korea Wartime Host Nation Support Truck Terminal. 

Lyons, also with DLA Energy Pacific, won in the company grade officer category. Lyons co-led the DLA Occupational Safety & Health Assessment. Coordinating with the DLA Installation Support Safety office, his performance proved invaluable during DLA Energy Okinawa’s annual assessment when he ensured personnel were safely equipped, properly trained and qualified for safe operation of the only DLA operated Defense Fuel Support Point in the Pacific. He coordinated a host installation fire department annual inspection and held fire extinguisher and fire evacuation training that enhanced unit safety and mission readiness. 

Mouzon, with DLA Energy Americas, won the senior non-commissioned officer category. Mouzon managed multiple commodities supporting numerous customers, quickly developing a reputation as the “go to” person when issues arose requiring immediate, sound and definitive action. He personally oversaw receipt, maintenance and issue of more than 40 million gallons of JAA/F-24 fuel, supporting customers while managing 19 other contracts worth more than $126 million. 

Garcia, also with DLA Energy Americas, was chosen for the non-commissioned officer category. Garcia led security operations for DFSP San Pedro, California’s 335-acre facility, supporting 58 personnel and executing antiterrorism and force protection measures. He coordinated and oversaw the execution of random anti-terrorism drills resulting in zero discrepancies and security incidents at San Pedro.

“As a DLA Energy sub-region in a major city, we rely on the professionalism and diligence of our security forces to keep us safe,” said DLA Energy Americas San Pedro Deputy Director, John Phinisey. “Staff Sgt. Garcia’s outstanding performance plays a direct role in our ability to accomplish our mission and we appreciate his dedication.” 

Civilian employees of the quarter are Michael Crutcher in the GS 7-12 category and Christopher Christensen in the GS 13-15 category, both with DLA Energy Americas.

Crutcher serves as a contracting officer’s representative and property administrator for the contractor-owned, contractor-operated storage contract at DFSP Houston and a commercial laboratory services contract in Pasadena, Texas. He ensured vendors performed to contract requirements, properly accounted for services and invoiced correctly to protect taxpayer dollars.

Crutcher worked with DFSP Houston’s terminal accountants to ensure they were able to continue entering fuel transactions into the Fuels Manager Defense system during the transition between contract periods as employees’ Common Access Cards were due to expire. He managed and provided contract oversight of a $103 million COCO storage/services contract at DFSP Houston. He inspected and certified $1.3 million worth of invoices for services rendered by the contractor and ensured accountability for 1.3 million barrels of Defense Working Capital Fund fuel stored in leased tankage at the terminal. 

Christensen developed and implemented a strategy to clean up historical data in Enterprise Business System and reconciled aged accounts in the Fuels Manager Defense system. He began a program to reduce fuel movements under investigation within DLA Energy Americas West and was able to decrease them by 20 percent. 

He worked with key stakeholders to mitigate the lack of temperature-compensated meters at bases in the southwestern U.S. Christensen’s efforts will have an impact on inventory accountability policies and requirements for DLA Energy, Department of Defense components and the military services.

Two offices were nominated for their support of the DLA director's strategic goals. 

Strategic Integration Office, small team category, DLA Energy Commander’s Action Group. The team is responsible for one-third of the DLA Energy Commander’s two-year strategic plan. They had immediate impact in the realm of strategic engagement. The team provided 36 ‘requests for information’ and talking papers for general order flag officers, senior executive service leaders, key leadership engagements, overseas trips and industry engagements to prepare the director, Operations Directorate and the DLA Energy commander. The new team was recognized by the DLA Headquarters director’s staff for exemplary work and asked to design a new key leader engagement talking paper template for other primary level field activities’ use. 

CAG, medium team category, DLA Energy CAG. DLA Energy’s newly formed CAG cemented their role and established a reputation among the DLA enterprise, reflective of their quality work this quarter. Four staff functions were collected into a cohesive unit with a clear, focused mission statement: “Take care of the DLA Energy Workforce and tell their story.” The most significant, Culture Climate action, is a result of the cohesiveness of the integrated staff unit. The project officer for Culture Climate recognized the importance of tying together the elements of critical succession planning, individual development plans, Defense Performance Management and Appraisal Plan performance elements and required supervisor interactions into one synergized sight picture aimed at improving Energy’s culture. 

Chapin summed up that the second quarter’s award winners are a reflection of success as a team effort.

“We all know that no one succeeds alone, so I offer my personal thanks to everyone who was part of the larger team that continues to make DLA Energy successful day-in and day-out,” Chapin said.