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DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY JULY – AUGUST 2010

SUPPLY CHAIN EXCELLENCE
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t the Defense Logistics Agency, we 

prove every day that collaboration 

is a building block of success in 

providing full-spectrum logistics support 

to America’s service members around the 

world. For our team members, collaboration can mean working with others inside 

the agency or outside with DLA’s partners 

at the military services, combatant commands and in industry. 

This agency’s logistics network spans 

the globe, and collaboration is vital to 

keeping a steady stream of supplies 

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alongside customers, we can better determine customers’ immediate needs and 

gain valuable insight into what they will 

ask of the agency in the future. We can 

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then work with our vast network of suppliers to meet those needs and get best 

value out of taxpayer dollars. 

Supporting increasing operations in 

Afghanistan and the responsible drawdown in Iraq have challenged DLA to 

supply logistics solutions that keep pace 

with the changing nature of operations. 

At DLA Troop Support in Philadelphia, 

the pace is hectic but the team united in 

its pursuit of logistics excellence. Team 

members are heavily engaged, supplying 

customers’ needs for building materials 

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troops expected to complete their surge 

into Afghanistan this summer.

DLA’s subsistence mission is ramping 

up in Afghanistan: the agency is adapting 

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uniform, which is slated to be worn by all 

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Official Flagship Publication of the Defense Logistics Agency

life-saving pharmaceuticals and medical 

devices into the hands of military doctors, 

nurses and medics entrusted with caring 

for wounded troops. 

The buildup of forces in Afghanistan is 

leading DLA to develop unique solutions 

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those solutions is the Northern Distribution Network, which currently carries 

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into Afghanistan.

Team members are connecting across 

DLA’s eight supply chains to share best 

practices and achieve synergy generated 

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goal is to allow service members to contact 

any agency operation and immediately receive assistance, whether the item they’re 

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activity or not.

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assist this effort. We are DLA will help 

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we work toward creating a single-agency 

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Teamwork is paramount in almost everything we do at DLA. I am proud of our 

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and I look forward to future successes we 

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CONTENTS

From the Ground Up 2

Philadelphia-based construction, equipment team

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Afghanistan.

Food Chain 8

Subsistence network keeps Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and

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Life or Death 14

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supply staff puts life-saving pharmaceuticals, equipment on

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Designer Threads 18

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suit up for daily missions.

Powering Up 24

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helps services test renewable fuels.

We are DLA 30

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single-agency environment, create a sense of community among 

global workforce.

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training exercises held in the world’s largest operations area.

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Troop Support and Energy Solutions
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From the

GROUND UP

Story by Beth Reece

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for construction material needed there. 

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and equipment at the Defense Logistics Agency’s Defense Supply 

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A Sailor watches an excavator boom bucket fill a barrier unit with sand and 

dirt before leveling it with a shovel at Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan. The 

Defense Supply Center Philadelphia is providing barrier units like those 

seen here to help keep warfighters safe in Southwest Asia. 

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heating units. It’s also supplying such 

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and Operations Program has made the 

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have to go searching for all the right parts.

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Navy Chief Petty Officer Ryan C. Delcore

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in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Construction materials and material-handling equipment are 

supplied through the agency’s Philadelphiabased troop support center. 

Defense Supply Center Philadelphia works 

with customers to ensure the items they order, 

such as the weather stripping being applied to 

a door frame by this Sailor, are right for the job.
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Acquisition specialists and prime 

vendors also do product research to 

ensure the items customers order are 

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been able to create standardized packages 

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rather than generate a new list of needs.

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Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Lindsey

Navy Chief Petty Officer Ryan C. Delcore

One Defense Supply Center Philadelphia 

program allows customers to order all the 

material they need to complete a single project 

under one package called a bill of materials, 

or BOM. Packages can also include tools, like 

this welding equipment.

Sailors raise a section of a 12-foot wall for a 

building into position at Camp Leatherneck, 

Afghanistan. Staffers at the Defense Supply 

Center Philadelphia are providing everything 

warfighters need to build forward operating 

bases in Afghanistan.
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and sorting along the delivery route. 

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contingency area where you don’t have a 

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in every week. 

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they realized they also needed power and 

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ship by the local Afghans is almost non

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provide electrical and plumbing materials 

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Navy Seaman Apprentice Gregory Kaminski

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troop tactical operations center at a forward 

operating base in Kandahar, Afghanistan. 

The military depends heavily on the Defense 

Logistics Agency to supply electrical and 

plumbing materials for projects in country.

(Below) Sailors stage materials received 

via the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia 

during construction of the battalion’s camp in 

Kandahar, Afghanistan.

“During my six months in Afghanistan, the Defense Logistics 

Agency has always come through for us.”

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either troop labor or American contrac

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letter to O’Dorisio early this spring for her 

help in providing electrical and plumb

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southern Afghanistan.

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to the locations that we desperately need 

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troops and have access to engineers 

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DSCP resolve potential problems with 

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just walk over to the ordering unit and 

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award happen today.’ And they’ll take 

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DLA contacts out there in the DSTs to 

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according to whether the package is being 

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partnering with the subsistence prime 

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used items. Barrier materials and lumber 

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through South and Central Asia – a move 

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Command – also helps improve the avail

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contract specialists and supply planners 

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Food Chain

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ship at sea, at a forward operating base 

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operational rations. These rations, 

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agency ensures it is always ready to meet 

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places like Guam, Germany, Japan, 

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The Defense Logistics Agency’s Defense Supply Center 

Philadelphia provides the military with the food it needs 

to accomplish its mission. Here, an Army CH-47 Chinook 

helicopter drops off a load of ready-to-eat meals at Fort 

McCoy, Wis., during a National Guard exercise. 

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location. 

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requests to the manufacturer to replenish 

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any dining facility within 48 hours, 

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Managing Meals

With Defense Supply Center Philadelphia’s 

subsistence operations covering such a 

wide array of products in so many regions 

around the world, managing and tracking those 

operations is an important job. DLA is working 

with the military services on a new mechanism, 

the Common Food Management System, to 

better manage subsistence operations.

CFMS is an emerging program that is 

expected to provide the military services with a 

common system to support food-management 

operations, said Shelly Broussard, DLA’s CFMS 

program manager. The vision for CFMS is a 

single, Web-enabled system that will support 

military feeding operations in fixed-location 

facilities, like dining facilities at military bases 

worldwide, and in mobile scenarios, such as 

aboard ships and in deployed units. 

The system is in the development phase, 

with delivery of the first increment due to the 

Marine Corps in early fiscal 2011, Broussard said. 

The Marines will test the system at Marine 

Corps Base Quantico, Va., she said. Starting in 

the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010, DLA will begin 

analysis and design for the second increment. 

Development and deployment of the third and 

fourth increments are scheduled to extend into 

fiscal 2015.

Plans call for CFMS to combine re-engineered 

processes and commercial-off-the-shelf software to maximize savings and effectiveness 

for military food operations, Broussard said. 

The system will replace the five legacy food 

management systems currently used by the Air 

Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Military 

Sealift Command.

“Some of the current systems have 

been operating for well over 10 years and 

require major updates to keep up with current 

financial, security and accessibility compliance 

requirements,” she said. “CFMS will address the 

statutory and Defense Department-mandated 

requirements for all services.”

CFMS consists of a commercial software 

application, Horizon Software International’s 

OneSource, combined with software that 

satisfies DoD’s unique requirements. The 

system will work by linking to the Subsistence 

Total Order and Receipt Electronic System, 

or STORES, which military customers use to 

order food, and then to the Enterprise Business 

System, Broussard said. EBS is the technology 

backbone that makes DLA’s daily supplymanagement operations possible. 

Broussard explained that CFMS will 

seamlessly connect the military services’ retail 

food service operations to DLA’s wholesale 

order and receipt system. This connection 

will help the military services and DLA 

work together on food management and is 

expected to reduce costs by consolidating 

system maintenance requirements across 

DoD and improving inventory operations and 

accountability for meals served. 

— Sara Moore

The Defense Supply Center Philadelphia’s 

garrison feeding division works with the 

military services to keep dining facilities, like 

this one at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., stocked. 

DSCP is supporting the military’s push for 

healthier foods, like salads.

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healthier items at the cost and in the 

quantities customers need.

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operations for Iraq and Kuwait. 

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serving dish for lunch at the Jewel of the East 

dining facility in Yokosuka, Japan. The Defense 

Supply Center Philadelphia provides food to 

military dining facilities worldwide.

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While military operations are scaling 

back in Iraq, they are ramping up in 

Afghanistan, and so is DLA’s subsistence 

mission there. As more U.S. troops 

surge into the country, DSCP has had 

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The biggest challenge DSCP faces 

in supporting the troop surge into 

Afghanistan is transporting the food 

The Defense Supply Center Philadelphia’s 

Individual Rations Branch provides the military 

with ready-to-eat field rations, like this one being eaten by a Soldier in Afghanistan. 

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rugged terrain, the lack of roads and 

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Karachi, Pakistan, he said, but the 

agency is now branching out and using 

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Northern Distribution Network, to bring 

supplies into the country. The NDN is 

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food to people where they need it,” he 

said. “They know what they’re getting 

into, but they’re still willing to do it.”

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troop surge into Afghanistan has been 

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what they would be eating at home,” he 

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“We have to give a lot of credit to the prime vendor and the people they hire who 

are willing to risk their lives driving food to people where they need it.”

— Anthony Amendolia
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Story by Beth Reece

When doctors at Landstuhl 

Regional Medical Center in 

Kaiserslautern, Germany, 

needed a special narcotic 

to treat a bilateral amputee 

suffering from liver and kidney failure 

early this year, Jackie Basquill handled 

the request as if the patient in need was 

her own son.

Within minutes, the Defense Supply 

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that DSCP’s pharmaceutical prime 

vendor had the drug in stock, and two 

hours later, she had authority from the 

Drug Enforcement Administration to 

ship it to Germany.

“The drug they needed was a Class 2 

narcotic, which is a controlled substance 

that we can’t just pull off the shelf and 

ship. We’ve got to work with the DEA 

to get documentation that ensures the 

people handling the drug have authority 

to. And in this case, we also needed 

additional DEA forms to get it into a 

foreign country,” said Basquill, deputy 

chief of the Operational Customer Facing 

Division in DSCP’s Medical Directorate.

Basquill coordinated a FedEx pickup 

that same day, and Landstuhl received 

the drug two days later. The fast response, said Basquill’s boss, Army Lt. Col. 

Alex Zotomayor, saved the Soldier from 

hours – if not days – of intense pain.

Urgent requirements like this 

one were once a weekly occurrence at 

DSCP, but improvements in commercial 

transportation and distribution of 

medical material have nearly eliminated 

“life or death requisitions,” Basquill said. 

“By using prime vendors, we’re able to 

pre-position items a lot better than we 

could in the past, and when we do get 

emergency requirements, we can react to 

them quicker now.” 

The Medical Directorate in 

Philadelphia provides supplies for 

military treatment facilities around the 

world and to such government agencies 

as the U.S. Agency for International 

Development. The items range from 

surgical instruments and cutting-edge 

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X-ray equipment to drugs and bandages. 

Most products customers order 

come from well-known health-care 

manufacturers like Johnson & Johnson 

and Cardinal Health and are delivered 

by major distributors, said Steven 

Bollendorf, chief of DSCP’s Medical/

Surgical Prime Vendor Program.

“After manufacturers design, develop 

and sell their wares, they ship truckloads 

of their products into strategically placed 

distribution centers. Those distributors 

are a different industry than the manufacturers themselves, but their focus is on 

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service and daily deliveries. We work with 

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meet customers’ needs,” Bollendorf said.

Bollendorf’s medical/surgical division 

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2009 for single-use items like surgical 

gowns and syringes, which he said are 

typically on the low end of the price range 

for medical supplies. 

The Pharmaceutical Prime Vendor 

Program, however, did more than 

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distribution centers that are part of the 

Tricare Mail Order Pharmacy Program 

used by service members, retirees and 

their family members. 

“There’s not a single medicine that 

we don’t or can’t provide through our 

prime vendors. We deal with everything 

from heart medicine to retinol cream,” 

said Paul Vasquez, division chief. “And 

nobody gets a pharmaceutical to the 

end-use customer faster than our prime 

vendors do.”

Pharmaceutical prime vendors are 

expected to provide next-day delivery to 

stateside customers. 

“Once a buyer here in the United 

States places an electronic order for a 

pharmaceutical, it shows up the very next 

Air Force personnel fill prescriptions provided 

through Defense Supply Center Philadelphia’s 

Pharmaceutical Prime Vendor Program at the 

Aviano Air Base pharmacy in Italy.

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day at their facility,” Vasquez said. “Also, 

our prime vendor warehouses must have 

orders placed by overseas customers on 

the dock, packaged and ready for shipment by the next day. Then on the next 

business day, commercial carriers under 

U.S. Transportation Command contracts, 

like FedEx and UPS, pick up the product 

and deliver it across the ocean.”

Delivery schedules are the same 

for medical/surgical prime vendors, 

except when customers need an item not 

considered common-use.

“For a ‘non-usage’ item – something 

we haven’t asked the prime vendor to 

have in inventory for us – they have a day 

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deliver it. Often, the prime vendor already 

has the item in stock anyway because 

they supply it to their other customers,” 

Bollendorf said. 

The Philadelphia supply center enters 

into distribution and pricing agreements 

with manufacturers and distributors to 

ensure customers get the best prices and 

products as quickly as possible. Prices can 

change from month to month, Bollendorf 

said, but DSCP uses an automated system 

to review customer invoices and see if 

they were charged the correct price for 

the corresponding date. 

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million in overcharges to customers 

last year. That might sound like a lot of 

money, but when you’re doing $3 billion 

in sales, that’s a pretty small percent,” 

Vasquez added. 

A reverse distribution program also 

gives customers the chance to return 

expired drugs and get money back. The 

money returned doesn’t equal the original 

purchase cost, but the program does help 

environmentally conscious customers 

dispose of outdated drugs.

While prime vendors account for 

most of DSCP’s medical business, the 

Old and expired pills are poured into a waste jar 

at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. Defense Supply 

Center Philadelphia’s reverse distribution 

program lets military treatment facilities 

exchange expired drugs for money back.

Air Force Airman 1st Class Adam Grant
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DLA Electronic Catalog System, or ECAT, 

does the second highest volume. The 

Web-based ordering system includes 

thousands of products from more than 

100 vendors who specialize in unique 

equipment and laboratory, dental and 

optical supplies.

Customers in Iraq and Afghanistan 

are served primarily by the U.S. Army 

Medical Materiel Center – Europe in 

Pirmasens, Germany, and the U.S. Army 

Medical Materiel Center – Southwest 

Asia in Qatar, theater lead agents for 

medical material that support the U.S. 

Central Command area of responsibility. 

DLA is responsible for stocking the 

Germany- and Qatar-based facilities with 

any and every health-care item.

“Medical logistics companies and 

theater hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan 

pass their requisitions to USAMMCSWA, which [stocks] 4,000 [different 

types] of medical supplies,” Zotomayor 

said. “If USAMMC-SWA doesn’t have the 

stock on hand, they pass the order on to 

USAMMCE in Germany, which maintains 

11,000 lines of stock.”

Medical supplies used by service 

members in Africa are also provided by 

USAMMCE, as well as those needed to 

support humanitarian aid in the European and African regions, added Sandra 

Simpson, one of DSCP’s representatives 

at USAMMCE.

“I think this is one of the most 

important missions that DLA supports 

because it often means life or death,” 

Simpson said. “Anybody involved with 

medical logistics can see that DLA is at the 

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they want it, at a price they can pay.”

Whether the medical supplies DSCP 

provides are used during childbirth at a 

stateside military treatment facility or to 

save the life of a combat Soldier, Sailor, 

Airmen, or Marine in Afghanistan, each 

requisition is regarded as top priority, 

Vasquez said.

“People may live or die because of 

the work my [team does], and I have 

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specialists who work diligently to serve 

our customers,” he added. 

An Air Force pharmacist performs a check 

for accuracy on a customer’s prescription 

at Barksdale Air Force Base, La. Defense 

Supply Center Philadelphia works with prime 

vendors to provide pharmaceuticals to military 

customers.

A Soldier and licensed practical nurse adjusts 

the flow of intravenous fluid to a simulated 

patient during medical training at Joint 

Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, La. 

Single-use items like tubing and syringes 

are provided through Defense Supply Center 

Philadelphia’s Medical/Surgical Prime Vendor 

Program.

Air Force Staff Sgt. Trina R. Jeanjacques Air Force Staff Sgt. Erica J. Knight
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DESIGNER THREADS

Story by Jonathan Stack

A

round the Defense Logistics Agency, team members like to say 

they touch the lives of America’s service members every day. 

But for Gary Colello and his team, their work literally touches 

Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines day in and day out, 

around the world.

That’s because DLA’s center for troop support, Defense Supply 

Center Philadelphia, is home to the clothing and textiles supply chain 

– the only one of the agency’s eight supply chains whose products 

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C&T buys all clothing and military equipment for the military 

services and the Coast Guard, and their support ranges from socks and 

underwear to body armor and combats helmets. The supply chain also 

provides ecclesiastical items used by military service chaplains and all 

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Colello, the supply chain’s customer operations director. 

The two parts to the C&T supply chain are: the supplier side, which 

works with vendors to develop and stock the goods 

customers will need, and the customer side, which 

accepts and processes orders from customers. 

Colello’s responsibility is to interact face to face with 

customers. 

One of the C&T team’s major projects is keeping the 

military service recruit training centers stocked with uniforms 

and other equipment that will be issued to recruits when they 

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items in the recruit clothing bags, including physical training gear, 

utility clothing, boots and dress uniform items.

An entire division is dedicated solely to supporting the nation’s 10 

military recruit training centers. 

The Recruit Training Center Clothing Division makes sure the 

centers have every item stocked in all available sizes so new recruits can 

get what they need right away, he said.

“The services want to have every recruit get every item they’re en

titled to when they’re supposed to get the item,” said Keith Ford, C&T 

deputy director. “In a typical week, that means C&T has to provide 

Soldiers peer out from a mountain top while wearing Army 

Combat Uniforms provided by Defense Supply Center 

Philadelphia’s clothing and textiles supply chain. This summer, 

Soldiers in Afghanistan will begin to wear the Army MultiCam 

combat uniform (shown at left), which will provide maximum 

possible effectiveness in that area.

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“That [means] 99.5 percent of the 

time, every recruit gets every item [they 

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through the [issue] line,” he said.

The supply chain team manages a 

large variety of sizes on each item; in 

some cases as many as 100 different sizes 

for an item. Boots, for example, routinely 

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sizes supplied are based on information 

the military services provide to the C&T 

team, but sometimes a recruit requires a 

special size that isn’t readily available at 

the training center. 

“In the event a recruit falls outside 

that size tariff and requires a special 

measurement, we have contracts in 

place to order the item in that special 

measurement size,” Ford said. “In some 

cases, we may get something as simple 

as the outline of a recruit’s hand to 

have an extremely large or small glove 

manufactured.” 

The goal is to have that item back to 

the recruit as soon as possible, he said, 

and always before he or she graduates 

basic training.

But long before recruits or other 

service members receive a uniform, the 

C&T team is hard at work, collaborating 

with the military services and industry 

partners to make sure the uniforms and 

other clothing items the agency supplies 

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Known as clothing and textiles life 

cycle management, the planning process is 

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or requirement and ends with the disposal 

of the item when it moves out of the 

system and is no longer needed by troops.

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management is establishing requirements 

between 250,000 and 275,000 items in a 

variety of sizes.”

Up until they enter training, recruits 

have usually had no personal military 

experience, Colello said, so this is an 

important opportunity to demonstrate 

how the Defense Department takes care 

of its troops. 

“When they go through the line and 

they see the guy next to them received 

everything, but because we didn’t do 

our job [right], they’re out marching in 

sneakers, or we didn’t have the hat that 

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big falling over their eyes, we’ve made a 

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want to show we care about them. What 

they’re doing is extremely important, and 

we want to make a difference in their lives.” 

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In a typical week, the Defense 

Supply Center Philadelphia 

clothing and textiles team has 

to provide between 250,000 

and 275,000 items in a 

variety of sizes in support of 

the nation’s 10 military recruit 

training centers. 

A Navy recruit receives an article of clothing 

while moving through the issue line at Great 

Lakes Naval Training Center, Ill. Defense 

Supply Center Philadelphia’s clothing and 

textiles supply chain is in charge of keeping 

the military service recruit training centers 

stocked with uniforms and other equipment 

that will be issued to recruits when they 

officially enter the military.

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like identifying what the customer needs 

the product to do and how the product 

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mission. The next step is development, 

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the best way to design a product to meet 

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for the military by a vendor. Products are 

warehoused and distributed until a new 

requirement supersedes the old product 

and the cycle begins again. 

“For example, from the early 1980s 

until 2003, everyone wore the same 

battle dress uniform. [Then] the Marine 

Corps [decided it] wanted to be different, 

and wanted to wear [its] own uniform,” 

Colello said. 

The Marine Corps entered the 

research and development phase and 

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pattern that would stand out, but also 

perform better than the traditional 

BDU, he said, which at that point was a 

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up with two new uniforms, and rather 

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After the pattern was established, the 

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initial production, where vendors 

produce the new items in small batches 

to determine their ability to actually 

produce the item to the service’s required 

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“The reason we have to go into the 

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of making items [exactly to military 

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Defense Supply Center Philadelphia’s clothing and textiles supply chain life cycle management process begins with establishing the military services’ requirements, then moves into developing, procuring and producing the product, and ends with warehousing and distributing the product.

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Also complicating the production 

process is the Berry Amendment, which 

requires 100 percent of C&T products, 

including the components that make 

up those products, be made in the 

United States from 100 percent domes

tic sources. In the years since the Berry 

Navy recruits try on new uniforms, provided 

by Defense Supply Center Philadelphia’s 

clothing and textiles supply chain, issued to 

them at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, 

Ill. DSCP’s Recruit Training Center Clothing 

Division makes sure the centers have every 

item stocked in all available sizes so new 

recruits can get what they need right away.

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Amendment was passed, the textile 

industry in the U.S. has dwindled, with 

many companies outsourcing to take 

advantage of lower labor costs abroad, 

leaving just a few companies to supply 

the military’s needs. 

“Not only does [clothing] have to been 

sewn in the United States, but everything 

that goes into these garments has to be 

domestically made,” he said. “So we have 

this small handful of textile manufactur

ers left in this county, and we’re asking 

them to produce a garment consistently, 

in which appearance and shade are 

extremely important. The LRIP process 

proves the industry can produce the item 

consistently.”

Once the test production is complete, 

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items are moved into mass production, 

he explained. 

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Soldier, Sailor, Airman and Marine with 

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issuing [an item], it’s called a new item 

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you go into sustainment.” 

Sustainment can go on for years or 

for a limited time; it all depends on the 

nature of the item, he continued. 

“When the time does come to 

introduce a new uniform, you move 

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“[The services] slowly draw down the 

stock and issue the old item to fewer 

people, replacing it with the new item 

[as it comes] into the system.”

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to improve support for Soldiers in 

Afghanistan. The new pattern, called 

the MultiCam, was selected by the Army 

based on various tests and studies that 

charted the effectiveness of the current 

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“The Army determined that given 

the geography of Afghanistan, the [Army 

Combat Uniform] didn’t provide the 

maximum possible effectiveness in that 

area and the MultiCam combat uniform 

would be a better pattern [for troops 

serving] in Afghanistan,” Ford said.

The MultiCam product line includes 

the combat uniform itself, as well as several 

accessory items Soldiers wear, like cold 

weather gear and kevlar helmet covers.

“The items in the MultiCam are in 

various stages; some are still in the acquisi

tion stages, and some are starting produc

tion,” Ford said. “The goal is to have the 

new uniform in theater this summer.”

Once it’s in full production, the 

MultiCam line will be the newest 

C&T item worn by every Soldier in 

Afghanistan every day, something 

Colello feels shows just how unique a 

mission his team has. 

“You don’t always pump fuel in a 

Humvee, go to the clinic for medicine, 

or eat in the dining facility, but every 

service member puts on their uniform 

every day,” he said. 

Navy recruits are issued uniforms at Great 

Lakes Naval Training Center, Ill. In a typical 

week, Defense Logistics Center Philadelphia’s 

clothing and textiles supply chain provides 

between 250,000 and 275,000 items, in a 

variety of sizes, to the 10 military service 

recruit training centers.

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The MultiCam product line includes the combat uniform itself, 

as well as several accessory items Soldiers wear, like cold 

weather gear and kevlar helmet covers.
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An F/A-18 Super Hornet nicknamed the Green Hornet, similar to this 

one refueling over Afghanistan, conducted a historic test flight using 

a 50/50 blend of standard jet fuel and a biofuel derived from a U.S.-

grown plant called camelina.

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products to the military and numerous 

federal civilian agencies worldwide. 

When it comes to mobility fuels, which 

include military-specific products like jet 

fuels and commercial-specification products 

like gasoline, diesel and heating oils, DESC 

buys about 130 million barrels a year, 

said Mark Iden, DESC’s deputy director of 

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installation energy, which includes buying 

natural gas, electricity and coal, he said.

DESC is a major supplier of fuel 

and energy products to the military in 

Afghanistan and Iraq. As U.S. troops leave 

Iraq and build up in Afghanistan, DESC 

is adjusting its operations accordingly, 

Iden said. To support the troop surge into 

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supply chain there and planning to establish 

more storage capability on the ground to 

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products into the rugged terrain. And in 

Iraq, DESC is slowly scaling back its energy 

support as the troops leave. DESC has 

already closed down the western supply 

chain there and plans to continue shutting 

down facilities as the U.S. need for fuel 

decreases, he said. 

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and the emerging alternative fuels and 

renewable energy market, now is an exciting 

time for DESC, Iden said. Over the past five 

or 10 years, as the center’s way of business 

has changed dramatically, employees have 

had to change their mindset and develop 

creative solutions to meet customers’ energy 

needs, he said.

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requirements and initiatives, it’s just a very 

exciting time,” he said. “There are a lot of 

good things going on, and we’re very proud 

that we’re looked at by our customers as 

that team they want to provide this service.”

— Sara Moore

Algae oil production is one method 

of producing biomass fuels.

— Photo courtesy Defense Energy Support Center
28 www.dla.mil

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Air Force Master Sgt. Scott T. Sturkol
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Ten Questions with . . .

1. As a career logistician and 

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chief of staff, what did you 

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with providing comprehensive 

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TEN QUESTIONS WITH. . .

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an agreement with the Army to 

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worldwide missions will at times put 

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serves several federal agencies. 

How does DESC meet customers’ 

needs for exotic commodities? 

What challenges has your team 

encountered while providing this 

type of “boutique” support?

DESC manages several extremely 

hazardous and “exotic” commodities 

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include NASA, the Department 

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local hazardous-material regulations 

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9. With record numbers of federal 

employees expected to retire in the 

coming years, you’ve placed particular emphasis on ensuring the 

continued vigor of the DESC workforce. What types of initiatives are 

you pursuing to maintain a strong 

base of support from which to 

serve war¿ghters?

DESC has a highly-skilled and 

committed team. Workforces will 

always experience turnover and 

there are several initiatives in place 

to ensure the organization maintains 

the competency necessary to 

complete its challenging mission. 

Since October, the human 

resources team has attended 37 

recruiting events. These events 

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mission details and employment 

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applicants who could bring great 

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employees come aboard, we mentor 

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over time. Mentoring builds the 

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mission is and will continue to be 

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execute their combat mission. 

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it brings the full force of the entire DLA 

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the DST as an extension of 

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until a solution is found, 

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Army Special Forces Soldiers jump out 

of a C-17 Globemaster III during a highaltitude, low-opening training exercise in the 

Phillipines. In 2010, exercises Cobra Gold and 

Key Resolve gave Defense Logistics AgencyPacific team members the opportunity 

to establish command relationships with 

warfighters and determine personnel and 

supply needs for warfighters.

— Photo by Marine Lance Cpl. Ronald W. Stauffer

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I AM

My name: 

Han Sang Tok

I am:

A transportation specialist for the Defense Energy Support Center 

Korea field office, Daegu, South Korea.

Describe your job in a sentence:

As a transportation specialist, I have been involved in South Korea’s 

evolution of petroleum, oil and lubricants transportation, from 

55-gallon drums to the present day movement of POL by pipeline, rail 

tank car, and tanker truck.

How long have you worked for the U.S. government?

53 years

What is your favorite thing about working for DLA at 

DESC Korea?

Being constantly ready to “fuel the fight tonight! ”

What is your best memory of working here?

Back in 1998, working for DESC Korea, I was responsible 

for all wholesale fuel movements by road and rail from 

the demilitarized zone to Pusan. I effectively managed 

nearly 250 rail tank cars throughout the Korean Peninsula in 

support of all four service components. I loved the action.

How do you make a difference to warfighters?

I provide the most responsive supply chain and the best 

logistics support to all services’ on- and off-installation 

customers. I can generate rapid warfighter-focused, specifically 

tailored fuel transportation solutions for my customers. Every 

route and delivery is calculated to be the most effective and 

efficient for the Department of Defense. I can proudly say I’ll 

continue to guarantee United States Forces Korea can meet its 

petroleum mission.

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