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Vice Director, Defense Logistics Agency

Center monitors the mission from 

the basement of our headquarters 

building at Fort Belvoir. There is a 

recap of our Crowley contract for the 

MV Vega container ship that delivered 

690 containers of supplies to Monrovia 

within 10 days. Additionally, you’ll read 

about an amazing capability we have 

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deployed a team to Liberia and was able 

to execute contracts immediately.

DLA’s mission hit a turning 

point after Hurricane Sandy. We’ve 

become more and more involved with 

humanitarian assistance because those 

type of missions demand exceptional 

logistics support. That is what DLA 

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because it discusses one of the most 

important missions we’ve had to deal 

with since Hurricane Sandy: Operation 

United Assistance. When the president 

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the deadly Ebola disease at its source, we 

got busy. We went in fast, and we went 

in big. We got boots on the ground. We 

got money into the contracts. We got 

food, shelter and water on location before 

anyone, and we are sustaining that even 

today. Our success is because of great 

people at DLA working as a team.

We have had more than 40 people 

in Monrovia, Liberia, some who have 

been there since September. They, 

along with home station assistance, 

are continuing to provide world-class 

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to be a part of the agency that jumped 

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how the Joint Logistics Operations 

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your professionalism, teamwork and 

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our nation. 

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combat Ebola and support the local population.

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CONTENTS

JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2015

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hile many Americans were 

learning the signs and 

symptoms of Ebola and 

calculating their risk of 

exposure, members of the 

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ground in Liberia setting the stage 

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deadly virus. 

On Sept. 16, President Barack Obama 

announced the plan to send 3,000 troops 

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“Men and women and children are 

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this disease,” he said.

DLA Europe & Africa Commander 

Army Col. Elizabeth Delbridge-Keough 

was already on a plane heading to 

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The trip was supposed to be a two-day 

reconnaissance trip, but those on the 

plane became DoD’s advance party. 

Keough immediately reached out 

to local businesses to gauge whether 

they could provide such supplies as 

construction material and bottled water. 

She also sought support from Liberian 

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“Setting up a land-use agreement with 

the government was a challenge, as well 

as getting access to ports. By meeting with 

port authorities and creating relationships 

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with the U.S. Embassy, as well as learning 

Liberia’s customs processes, I was able 

to help set up the theater and bring in 

rations,” Keough said.

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units would deploy, employees at DLA 

activities around the world began to 

anticipate what supplies would be needed 

by troops whose primary mission was to 

build 17 Ebola treatment units. By early 

October, initial supplies of food, water, 

cots and tents were on the ground. And 

DLA Distribution began pre-positioning 

other items, many of which were collected 

at Defense Distribution Depot Europe in 

Germersheim, Germany, so they would be 

ready to go when requested. 

Initial building materials were 

purchased from local vendors by DLA 

Troop Support with the help of Michaella 

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from DLA Logistics Operations’ Joint 

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who deployed to Liberia less than a week 

after Keough’s arrival.

“My main customers are the engineers 

who are going out there and prepping 

the sites to build ETUs. I’m partnering 

with DLA Troop Support to purchase the 

building materials for them and lease 

heavy machinery to clear sites, so DLA 

has a stamp on pretty much everything 

that’s going on up here,” she said from 

Monrovia in October.

Olson also provided operational 

contract support to the Army’s 414th 

Contracting Support Brigade when it 

experienced funding delays. 

“Because DLA is working capital fund, 

I was able to get site preparations for 

Ebola treatment units started, and I think 

it was a huge morale boost for everyone,” 

she said. 

The agency’s goal during the early 

weeks of the operation was to “anticipate 

needs, be proactive and lean forward,” 

said Army Col. Eric Sloughfy, chief of 

the DLA Joint Logistics Operations 

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then-DLA Director Navy Vice Adm. Mark 

Harnitchek’s directives.

As DoD officials determined which units would deploy, 

employees at DLA activities around the world began to 

anticipate what supplies would be needed.

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Service members board an Air Force C-17 

Globemaster III at Roberts International 

Airport, Liberia, during Operation United 

Assistance. DLA employees were on the 

ground orchestrating logistics support before 

most troops arrived in country.

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“The DLA director’s guidance is to 

go fast and go big. This is a total DLA 

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with DLA Europe & Africa and all of 

DLA’s supply chain experts to anticipate 

requirements,” he said.

Sloughfy’s team consolidated 

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maintained contact with such federal 

partners as USAID, the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers and Army Materiel Command.

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with coordination meetings to ensure 

all the requirements are covered and 

all the involved organizations, both 

internal and external to DLA, are sharing 

critical information,” said Guy Beougher, 

executive director of operations and 

sustainment for DLA Logistics Operations. 

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commercial cargo vessel ever chartered 

by DLA, arrived in the port of Rotterdam 

in the Netherlands to pick up supplies 

collected at DLA Distribution Europe. 

It arrived in Liberia Oct. 25 with 690 

20-foot containers of much-needed 

supplies including meals, bottled water, 

medical protective equipment, generators, 

lumber, fuel tanks and rough terrain cargo 

handlers. 

More than 20 volunteers from DLA 

Distribution were there to unload the Vega 

and place cargo in warehouses already 

contracted in Buchanan and Monrovia, 

Liberia, as well as Dakar, Senegal. Three 

members of DLA Information Operations 

were also there to help provide in-theater 

visibility of the supplies by creating 

local access to the Distribution Standard 

System, DLA Distribution’s online 

warehousing system.

“We want to have visibility of those 

assets in DSS and the Enterprise Business 

Marines load bags of concrete onto an MV-22B 

Osprey to help local and international health 

organizations build Ebola treatment units while 

supporting Operation United Assistance in 

Monrovia, Liberia. DLA’s Joint Contingency 

Acquisition Support Office helped provide

building materials and heavy machinery 

needed for construction.

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System from the time they arrive in 

country,” said Eric Fegley, director of 

stakeholder plans and operations for DLA 

Information Operations.

Fuel was another critical commodity 

needed by those supporting OUA. DLA 

Energy met early demands by contracting 

for multiple methods of fuel delivery and 

establishing three fuel distribution sites. 

The activity also increased the 

amount of on-hand fuel at ETUs by 

providing 6,500-gallon storage tanks. 

And 55-gallon drums previously used at 

the Monrovia medical unit, which was 

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of medical workers who are infected 

while caring for patients, were replaced 

with a 5,000-gallon storage tank in 

mid-November. 

“By hooking up this 5,000-gallon 

tank, we basically extended the refuel 

cycle of this mobile medical unit to 

roughly 20 days of supply of fuel. You go 

from having to resupply every three or 

four days to 20,” said Army Maj. Stefan 

Bandas, director of DLA Energy Europe & 

Africa’s Customer Operations Center.

To ensure repair parts would be 

available for military aircraft and ground 

vehicles sent to the region, DLA Land and 

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prepared common repair items for forward 

movement before most units deployed. By 

late November, DLA Aviation distributed 

more than 21,000 maps that provided 

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ground reference points. 

DLA Troop Support also provided 

a range of medical supplies, although 

service members were not expected to 

come into contact with the Ebola virus. 

They included saline, protective gloves 

and utility aprons. 

Even DLA Disposition Services played 

a role in the early weeks of OUA by adding 

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activity also obtained land in the Army’s 

101st Sustainment Brigade’s area of 

operations to assist with property disposal 

when the need arises.

Anticipating needs, determining the 

location of current stock and moving 

items forward were keystones of DLA’s 

support, said JLOC Deputy Division Chief 

Gordon “Buzz” Hackett. 

“If you don’t anticipate and preposition supplies where there’s airlift or 

sealift, you’ll get behind the eight ball 

and won’t be able to overcome it quickly 

enough. Unless you’re leaning forward, 

it’s hard to get caught up in the logistics 

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they saw relief replace fear on local 

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overhead and Soldiers walking around. 

Air Force personnel begin construction on the 

Monrovia Medical Unit site as part of Operation 

United Assistance in Monrovia, Liberia. DLA 

purchased some of the construction material 

from local sources rather than shipping it from 

Germany or the United States.

DLA Troop Support made sure service members 

deployed to the Barclay Training Center 

in Monrovia, Liberia, had more to eat than 

standard ready-to-eat meals. Troops there and 

at other locations throughout Liberia began 

receiving hot meals by early November.

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You could see their attitude change from 

despair to hope,” Olson said. 

Other DLA employees said they were 

inspired by the eagerness of locals to assist 

in the mission. While serving as the deputy 

commander of the DLA support team in 

Liberia, Navy Cmdr. Harold W. “Tracer” 

Valentine noticed a pallet of white boxes 

marked with the American Red Cross logo 

abandoned in the sun. Further inspection 

indicated the boxes contained controlled 

medicines that, without refrigeration, 

would expire at 6 p.m. that day. In the 

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“The Liberians I have worked with 

told me that they felt that the world 

had abandoned them until they saw the 

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on the ground in Monrovia. They said they 

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“Everyone saw hope in every truckload of 

material that we brought into country.”

While Olson described DLA’s work 

supporting Operation United Assistance 

as “truly groundbreaking,” Keough said 

the early success of the mission proves 

that DLA has much to contribute, whether 

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said. “By being on the ground, I was able 

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aggressively set the theater and get the 

right stocks here before service members 

arrived. It was truly a groundbreaking and 

humbling experience to be a part of.” 

Army Pfc. Walker Prinz, center, cuts wood 

supplied by DLA Troop Support at a Monrovia 

medical unit near Tubmanburg, Liberia. 

DLA provided 250,000 pieces of lumber for 

Operation United Assistance.

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more efficient that it’s cool just to be a part of it.”

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Michaella Olson (center left), a member of 

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Acquisition Support Office from Fort Belvoir, 

Virginia and Army Col. Elizabeth DelbridgeKeough (center right), commander of DLA 

Europe & Africa, stand with members of the 

Armed Forces of Liberia, U.S. government 

contractors and U.S. Navy Seabee engineers 

at an Ebola treatment unit in Sinje, Liberia. The 

U.S. government worked alongside the armed 

forces of Liberia during the construction of 

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plane headed to Monrovia, Liberia, to 

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DLA.

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414th Contracting Support Brigade and 

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some of the critical site preparations 

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going out there and prepping the sites to 

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pieces of lumber.

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threatening to suspend all operations, 

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are your concerns?’” she said. “And she 

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let us lease the porta-potties. We’ve had 

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the commander of DLA Europe & Africa, 

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executive director.

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the local African populations by procuring 

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that are boots on ground buy it locally, 

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Army Col. Elizabeth Delbridge-Keough, 

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local vendors during the Liberian Business 

Development Forum in Monrovia. More than 

400 vendors attended the inaugural event 

designed to increase local procurement.

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JCASO chief of local procurement, and her 

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government agencies that already operated 

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use them to buy locally.’ Although DLA 

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this helped them build a larger base of 

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Africa and vet those requirements through 

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set up processes for operational contract 

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commander visibility over all contracts 

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West Africa.”

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go out and support exercises,” he said. 

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to just go do it. Their procedure is they 

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people in place. Then, they rotate out and 

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members of the MSTs to prepare for the 

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future to come out and support because 

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accomplished in support of the mission 

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our customers.” 

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engineers during a visit to an Ebola treatment 

unit construction site in Sinje, Liberia. The ETUs 

were built during Operation United Assistance, 

the Defense Department operation supporting 

the U.S. Agency for International Developmentled humanitarian effort to contain the spread of 

the Ebola virus in West Africa. 

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during the agency’s first Liberian Business 

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deployed to Liberia in support of Operation 

United Assistance and coordinated the forum. Army Sgt. 1st Class Will Patterson

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during Operation United Assistance in 

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medical supplies and other critical supplies 

to Liberia. 

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OPERATION UNITED ASSISTANCE

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sending more than 1.5 million 

critically needed medical personal 

protective sets to American aid 

workers working to contain the 

Ebola virus in West Africa, the agency 

team lead in Liberia said.

Items procured by employees in DLA 

Troop Support’s medical, clothing and 

textiles, and construction and equipment 

supply chains are helping protect U.S. 

service members as well as U.S Agency 

for International Development and 

non-government organization personnel 

working in the region, said Navy Capt. 

Ronald Carr.

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materials, from full body suits to hoods, 

masks, gloves, boots, aprons and 

goggles, Carr added. As of November, 

nearly 50,000 protective suits had 

already been provided.

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Kenny, DLA Troop Support acquisition 

executive, recently attended a personal 

protective equipment industry summit 

sponsored by UNICEF in Copenhagen, 

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more than 1.5 million suit sets for U.S. military 

and U.S. Agency for International Development 

members in Monrovia, Liberia, deployed to 

support Operation United Assistance.

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encourage the industrial base to increase 

its manufacturing capacity.

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said. “The participants better understand 

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and we had the opportunity to expand 

our knowledge of the industrial base’s 

global capacity.”

An initial round of 2,700 suits and 

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Virginia, Caballero said. 

The two teams had to work quickly, 

he said, since the items needed to be 

loaded onto a plane carrying U.S. Army 

lab technicians waiting to depart Joint 

Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New 

Jersey, for Africa.

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they made it to the plane. He said getting 

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suits is in high demand.

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needed these suits,” he said. “I was just 

excited to help make that happen.” 

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Sgt. Samuel Riley, a fixed-wing aircraft 

mechanic with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 

122, checks to make sure fuel is flowing to 

an F/18 C Hornet at Eielson Air Force Base, 

Alaska. Petroleum commodities stored on 

Alaskan bases became the first DLA Energy 

locations incorporated into the agency’s 

Enterprise Business System during a 10-month 

worldwide Energy Convergence rollout. 

in the Pacific

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Rollout 1: ALASKA June 1, 2013

Rollout 2: U.S. WEST COAST REGION AND HAWAII Sept. 1, 2013

Rollout 3: REMAINDER OF CONUS, PUERTO RICO

 CUBA, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA Dec. 1, 2013

Rollout 4: REMAINDER OF PACIFIC Feb. 1, 2014

Rollout 5: EUROPE & AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST, CANADA, FLEET CARD, 

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Rollout 6: BUNKERS, INTO-PLANE, AIR CARD, SEA CARD Nov. 1, 2014

Airman 1st Class Isaac Perez, 374th Maintenance 

Squadron, checks inventory before a shipment 

of diesel fuel. An Energy Convergence pilot 

program has helped the Enterprise Business 

System, DLA’s primary financial system, 

incorporate DLA Energy’s business processes 

into its daily transactions. 

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Davidson places the first fuel order in the 

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during the rollout to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

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DLA History Program

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My name is: 

Anthony A. Burgher

I am: 

The chief of the Resources Division at DLA Distribution San Joaquin, 

California.

Describe your job in a sentence: 

My job is to provide program oversight and management of the depot’s 

workforce development, financial management, business planning and 

performance improvement functions. 

How long have you worked for DLA?

 I’ve worked for DLA for eight years. 

What is your favorite thing about working for DLA? 

I enjoy working with our team of professional logisticians dedicated to 

providing effective solutions to complex logistical challenges.

What is your best memory of working here? 

My best memory of working at DLA Distribution San Joaquin was when our 

depot commander publicly awarded his commander’s coin to two members of 

my team during a town hall before all of their peers and the entire distribution 

team. The coin recipients were not aware beforehand and were very surprised. I 

was extremely proud of them. 

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I try to positively influence our team members by 

communicating with them frequently and effectively on how 

they contribute in helping the depot achieve DLA’s and DLA 

Distribution’s strategic goals. I am fortunate that my previous 

bosses and my current boss have provided me with the 

coaching and mentoring I need to be a better civil servant and 

leader. In addition, I believe DLA as a whole makes a difference 

in our unwavering support to our service men and women and to 

our nation’s humanitarian efforts around the world, particularly in 

Liberia, the country of my birth. 

Anthony A. Burgher

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