Brigadier General Jimmy R. Canlas 

United States Air Force 

To 

Captain Brian J. Anderson 

United States Navy 

CHANGE OF COMMAND 

Defense Logistics Agency Energy 

DLA Headquarters Auditorium 

Fort Belvoir, Virginia 

29 June 2023 at 1000 hours 
Sequence of Events

Welcome

Arrival of Official Party

Vice Admiral Michelle C. Skubic, USN

Brigadier General Jimmy R. Canlas, USAF

Captain Brian J. Anderson, USN

Presentation of the Colors

National Anthem

Invocation

Chaplain (COL) Thomas A. Brooks, USA

Defense Logistics Agency

Opening Remarks

Vice Admiral Michelle C. Skubic, USN

Director, Defense Logistics Agency

Presentation of Award

Remarks

Brigadier General Jimmy R. Canlas, USAF

Change of Command

Remarks

Captain Brian J. Anderson, USN

Service Medley

Departure of Official Party
Vice Admiral 

Michelle C. Skubic, USN

DIRECTOR,

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

Vice Adm. Michelle C. Skubic is a 1988 

graduate of California State University, 

Fullerton, with a Bachelor of Arts in 

Business Administration-Finance. She 

earned a Master of Science in Acquisition 

and Contract Management from Naval Post 

Graduate School in 2001. She is also a 

graduate of the Joint Forces Staff College 

and the University of North Carolina Kenan

-Flagler Executive Development Institute.

Vice Adm. Skubic’s operational 

assignments include: division officer in 

readiness and services billets, aboard USS Acadia (AD 42), which included 

deployment for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm; supply officer 

aboard Precommissioning Unit (PCU) McFaul (DDG 74), built in 

Pascagoula, Mississippi; and supply officer aboard PCU George H. W. 

Bush (CVN 77), built in Newport News, Virginia, which was commissioned 

to the fleet in January 2009. Additionally, she completed a tour forwarddeployed as commander, Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Support Team 

in Kuwait, where her team, in concert with other DLA activities, supported 

U. S. Central Command, U. S. Army Central and other department of 

defense organizations in sustaining the warfighter’s requirements for 

Operations New Dawn and Enduring Freedom.

Her shore assignments include: services officer and carrier readiness officer 

at Commander, Naval Air Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, San Diego; combined 

bachelor quarters officer and aviation support division officer, Naval Air 

Station Sigonella, Sicily; deputy department head for program contracts, 

Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River, Maryland; deputy force 

supply officer, Commander, Naval Surface Forces, San Diego; director of 

supplier operations, DLA Aviation, Richmond, Virginia; commanding 

officer, Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Fleet Logistics Center 

Norfolk, Virginia; chief of staff, NAVSUP, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania; 

director, Logistics, Fleet Supply and Ordnance, U.S. Pacific Fleet, Joint Base 

Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii; commander, DLA Land and Maritime, 

Columbus, Ohio and Commander, Naval Supply Systems Command 

(NAVSUP) and 48th Chief of Supply Corps.

Vice Adm. Skubic became director of the Defense Logistics Agency on 24 

July 2020.

Vice Adm. Skubic is designated as a Naval Aviation and Surface Warfare 

Supply Corps officer and is a member of the Defense Acquisition Corps.

Her awards include the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, Defense 

Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service 

Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Commendation Medal and the 

Navy Achievement Medal. 
Brigadier General

Jimmy R. Canlas, USAF

OUTGOING COMMANDER,

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY ENERGY

U.S. Air Force Brig Gen Jimmy R. Canlas i s 

t h e C o m m a n d e r of the Defense Logistics

Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

General Canlas assumed command on 

23 June 2020. As commander, he is 

responsible for enabling mission readiness by 

providing globally resilient energy solutions to 

the Warfighter and Whole of Government, 

seeking to be the trusted leader in innovative 

energy solutions aligned with the speed of 

change.

Prior to his arrival to DLA Energy, General Canlas served as the

Commander, 618th Air Operations Center (Tanker Airlift Control 

Center), Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. The 618th AOC (TACC) is

responsible for operational planning, scheduling, directing, and

assessing a fleet of approximately 1,100 aircraft in support of combat 

delivery and strategic airlift, air refueling and aeromedical operations 

around the world.

General Canlas is a command pilot with more than 4,400 hours in the

C-21A, KC-135R and C-17A. He has broad experience having 

commanded an airlift squadron, an expeditionary group, and an airlift 

wing. He is a joint qualified officer having served with the United 

Nations Command in Korea and on the U.S. European Command(J-4)

staff in Germany. Other staff tours include time at Headquarters Air

Mobility Command and Headquarters Air Force. He served as the

Commander, 437th Air Wing, Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, 

and Vice Commander of the 618th Air Operations Center, Scott AFB, 

Illinois.

General Canlas was commissioned in 1992 as a Distinguished

Graduate from the University of Texas at San Antonio. His education 

includes a Master of Operational Art and Sciences and a Masters of

Strategic Studies from Air University. He is a graduate of the Air War 

College and attended the Enterprise Leadership Seminar, KenanFlagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He 

is a graduate of t h e D i r e c t o r o f t h e M o b i l i t y F o r c e s 

C o u r s e a n d the Joint Air and Space Operations Senior Staff Course,

Hurlburt Field, Florida.

Major awards and decorations include the Defense Superior Service 

Medal, Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, Bronze Star Medal, 

Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal with 

three oak leaf clusters, Air Medal, Aerial Achievement Medal with oak

leaf cluster, Air Force Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster, the

Air Force Achievement Medal, Joint Meritorious Unit Award and the

Meritorious Unit Award with three oak leaf clusters.
Captain 

Brian J. Anderson, USN

INCOMING COMMANDER,

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY ENERGY

U.S. Navy CAPT Brian J. Anderson assumes 

command of the Defense Logistics Agency 

Energy, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, on 29 June 2023. 

As commander, he is responsible for providing 

the Department of Defense and other 

government agencies with comprehensive 

energy solutions in the most effective and 

efficient manner possible.

Captain Anderson was born in Norwalk, 

Connecticut. Raised in New Hampshire, he 

graduated from Bishop Brady High School and 

graduated from Saint Michael's College. He received a dual MBA in Supply 

Chain Management and Human Resource Management from the Broad 

Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University in 2007.

Enlisting in the navy in 1992, he attended Recruit Training at RTC Great 

Lakes, Illinois. His initial assignment was to USS WHITE PLAINS (AFS 4) 

home ported in Guam. In 1995 he attended Officer Candidate School in 

Pensacola, Florida where he was commissioned an Ensign in the Supply 

Corps.

His afloat tours have included Disbursing, Sales and Food Service Officer in 

USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS (FFG 58); Supply Officer in USS PONCE (LPD 

15); Principal Assistant for Logistics and Assistant Supply Officer in USS 

JOHN C. STENNIS (CVN 74); Supply Officer in USS GEORGE 

WASHINGTON (CVN 73) and USS RONALD REAGAN (CVN 76).

Ashore tours include Navy Acquisition Contracting Officer Intern at Naval 

Inventory Control Point, Philadelphia; U.S. SIXTH Fleet Materiel Control 

Officer and Combat Logistics Force Scheduler at Commander, Task Force 

63, Naples, Italy; Navy Program Lead for BRAC 2005 (J-39) at HQ Defense 

Logistics Agency; CENTCOM Deployment Distribution Operations Center 

LNO to Office of the Defense Representative Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan; 

Chief, Current Operations in the DLA Joint Logistics Operations Center; 

Military Assistant and Aide de Camp for Director, Defense Logistics 

Agency; Director for Afloat Policy, Training and Inspection and Deputy 

Force Supply Officer at Commander Naval Air Forces, Pacific; Assistant 

Chief of Staff for Logistics, Ordnance and Sustainment (N4), U.S. SEVENTH 

Fleet; Commanding Officer, NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center San Diego, 

Assistant Chief of Staff for Logistics (N41), Commander, Naval Air Forces; 

and Assistant Commander for Supply Chain Management, Policy & 

Performance Naval Supply Systems Command.

Captain Anderson's awards include the Legion of Merit (four awards), the 

Defense Meritorious Service Medal (two awards), Meritorious Service 

Medal (two awards), Navy Commendation Medal (three awards), Navy 

Achievement Medal (three awards) and various other unit and campaign 

awards.
SERVICE MEDLEY

THE ARMY SONG

First to fight for the right, and to build the nation's might, 

And the Army goes rolling along.

Proud of all we have done, fighting till the battle's won,

And the Army goes rolling along.

Then it’s hi! hi! hey!, The Army’s on its way,

Count off the cadence loud and strong;.

For where’er we go, You will always know,

That the Army goes rolling along!

THE MARINES' HYMN

From the halls of Montezuma, To the shores of Tripoli.

We fight our country's battles, In the air, on land, and sea.

First to fight for right and freedom, And to keep our honor clean.

We are proud to claim the title, United States Marines!

ANCHORS AWEIGH-NAVY

Anchors aweigh, my boys, Anchors aweigh

Farewell to foreign shores, We sail at break of day-day-day-day

Through our last night on shore, Hail to the foam

Until we meet once more, Here's wishing you a happy voyage home!

THE U.S. AIR FORCE SONG

Off we go into the wild blue yonder, Climbing high into the sun;

Here they come zooming to meet our thunder, At ‘em now, Give 'em the gun!

Down we dive, spouting our flame from under, Off with one helluva roar!

We live in fame or go down in flame. Hey! Nothing'll stop the U.S. Air Force! 

SEMPER SUPRA (SPACE FORCE)

We're the mighty watchful eye, Guardians beyond the blue.

The invisible front line, Warfighters brave and true.

Boldly reaching into space, There's no limit to our sky.

Standing guard both night and day, We're the Space Force from on high!