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Ellen Lord, Undersecretary for AT&L Army Reserve and served as deputy assistant secretary of DEFENSE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT AGENCY PUBLIC AFFAIRS the Army for environment, safety, and occupational health. (AUG. 21, 2017) Davis is a former Army Ranger, and is a graduate of the U.S. Patrick Tremblay Military Academy and Harvard University. FORT LEE, Va.—Ellen Lord has been confirmed as under- secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logis- Hill AFB Welcomes New Ogden ALC Commander tics. She is responsible to the secretary of defense for all 75TH AIR BASE WING PUBLIC AFFAIRS (AUG. 31, 2017) matters pertaining to acquisition; research and engineering; HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah—Brig. Gen. Stacey Hawkins developmental testing; contract administration; logistics and became the new Ogden Air Logistics Complex commander materiel readiness; installations and environment; opera- at Hill Air Force Base during a change of command ceremony tional energy; chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons; Aug. 31. the acquisition workforce; and the defense industrial base. As commander of the Ogden ALC, Hawkins will lead a team Lord has more than 30 years of experience in the defense of approximately 8,100 personnel who perform depot repair, industry, including senior leadership positions in industry. overhaul, and modification of A-10, C-130, F-16, F-22, F-35, Read more on Lord and AT&L at http://www.acq.osd.mil/ and T-38 aircraft, the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic bio_lord.html. missile system, and a wide range of commodities. These include landing gear, wheels and brakes, rocket motors, air Senior Executive Service Announcement munitions and guided bombs, photonics equipment, train- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, PRESS OPERATIONS (AUG. 22, 2017) ing devices, software, electronics, avionics, instruments, hy- Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has announced the follow- draulics, power systems, and other aerospace components. ing Department of Defense Senior Executive Service ap- pointment and assignment: Addison D. Davis IV has been In his remarks, Hawkins welcomed the challenge of his new selected for appointment to the Senior Executive Service, leadership assignment. and for assignment as the principal deputy assistant secre- tary of defense for energy, installations, and environment. “I promise to devote all of my energies toward sustaining Davis was previously chief executive officer for the U.S. an environment where all of our airmen—civilian and mili-

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As director, he was re- sponsible for leader- ship, management, and integration of total-force logistics, engineering, and force protection ac- tivities across the global mobility air forces enter- prise.

During the ceremony, Team Hill also bid fare- well to Brig. Gen. Steven Bleymaier who served as the Ogden ALC com- mander since August 2015. Bleymaier is mov- ing to Scott AFB to take Hawkins’ place as direc- tor of logistics, engineer- ing and force protection for Air Mobility Com- Brig. Gen. Stacey T. Hawkins, incoming Ogden Air Logistics Complex commander, addresses guests mand. during the change of command ceremony at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Aug. 31. Hawkins is a 26-year Air Force veteran and came from Scott AFB, Illinois, where he served as director of logistics, engineer- Flag Officer ing and force protection for Air Mobility Command since May 2015. Assignments U.S. Air Force photo/Todd Cromar DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PRESS OPERATIONS (SEPT. 15, 2017) tary—can reach their full potential,” he said. “We’re going Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer and Chief of Naval to drive to achieve production outcomes toward ‘Art of the Operations Adm. John Richardson announced today the fol- Possible’ results in support of our nation’s warfighters. We lowing assignments: will have many challenges to face together in the future and • Navy Reserve Rear Adm. (lower half) Keith M. Jones, se- I’m committed to giving my all to create the right leadership lected for promotion to rear admiral, will be assigned as culture for our organization.” deputy commander, Naval Supply Systems Command, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Jones is currently serving Hawkins said he and his family are thrilled “to become a part as commander, Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support of this great military community, where patriotism, family Group, Williamsburg, Virginia. values, and an industrious spirit converge to deliver freedom • Navy Reserve Rear Adm. (lower half) Grafton D. Chase and security for our nation.” will be assigned as commander, Naval Supply Global Lo- gistics Support Command, San Diego, California. Chase is He continued, “I’m also excited to be a part of about 50 mis- currently serving as reserve director, Logistics Programs sion partners on this installation, and we all combine to pack and Business Operations, N41, Office of the Chief of Naval a powerful punch to keep America strong. I’m thrilled to lock Operations, Washington, District of Columbia. arm in arm with everyone on this installation to build on the • Navy Reserve Rear Adm. (lower half) Alan J. Reyes will momentum of those who have gone before us.” be assigned as commander, Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group, Williamsburg, Virginia. Reyes is currently Hawkins is a 26-year Air Force veteran and is coming from assigned as deputy director, Logistics, Fleet Supply and Scott AFB, Illinois, where he has served as director of logis- Ordnance, U.S. Pacific Fleet, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. tics, engineering and force protection for Air Mobility Com- • Navy Reserve Capt. Jacquelyn McClelland, selected for mand since May 2015. promotion to rear admiral (lower half), will be assigned as reserve director, Logistics, Fleet Supply and Ordnance,

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U.S. Pacific Fleet, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. McClelland is moved to Fort Leonard Wood, and I first came here shortly currently serving as logistics officer, Navy Reserve, Naval after graduation from West Point in 1990.” Supply Systems Command, Global Logistics Support Headquarters, San Diego, California. The new commandant shared a special message with the regiment. USAES at Fort Leonard Wood Welcomes Commandant ARMY NEWS SERVICE (SEPT. 22, 2017) “I’ve seen maneuver commanders ask when they are con- Dawn M. Arden fronted with a problem…’Who can solve a complex issue? The U.S. Army Engineer School welcomed Brig. Gen. Robert Who can provide the right recommendations to restore mo- Whittle Jr. during an Assumption of Commandant ceremony bility to the battlefield?’ The maneuver commander asks, held on Fort Leonard Wood’s Maneuver Support Center of ‘where is my engineer?’” Excellence Plaza. Whittle explained further. “Where others have tried, and Whittle, who was previously the deputy commander for failed, the Engineer Regiment has said, ‘Essayons,’ and suc- the 1st Cavalry Division in Fort Hood, Texas, is the school’s ceeded,” he said. “We built the Pentagon in 18 months. 97th commandant. He assumed the responsibilities from When others failed, we took over and completed the Pan- Col. Kevin Brown who was the interim commandant. ama Canal. We have shaped the battlefield for combined arms teams over and over again. Indeed, the very connota- The ceremony was presided over by Maj. Gen. Kent Savre, tion of the word Essayons has changed, from let us try… to, MSCoE and Fort Leonard Wood commanding general, who we will succeed.” thanked Brown for bridging the gap and making the transi- tion seamless. He concluded by saying he is confident the regiment will be ready to step up to the plate when the call comes and “For the past three months, the engineer school hasn’t engineers will succeed. missed a beat thanks to the teamwork of multiple senior leaders,” Savre said. “And thanks to Col. Kevin Brown who Roegge Succeeds Padilla as National Defense really stepped up as interim commandant, providing conti- University President nuity and direction.” DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE NEWS, DEFENSE MEDIA ACTIVITY (SEPT. 25, 2017) Savre said the future is bright for the Engineer Regiment Jim Garamone under the leadership of Whittle. WASHINGTON—Presiding at the change of presidency cer- emony at the National Defense University on Fort Lesley J. “Brig. Gen. Bob Whittle is the exact right leader to posture McNair, Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, the chairman of this regiment for the unknown and complex challenges that the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said professional military education lie ahead,” Savre said. “Challenges like the ongoing Hurricane is a priority for the American military and its allies. Harvey and Irma disaster response and recovery operations in the homeland, or the continuing development of infra- Dunford watched as Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Frederick M. structure and essential services required to help achieve sta- Padilla handed the NDU flag to Navy Vice Adm. Frederick bility in the Middle East or providing maneuver commanders J. Roegge. with trained and ready combat engineer formations.” The chairman thanked Padilla for his persistence and ex- Savre went on to say Whittle possesses the experience, vi- ample, saying he epitomized “the servant leader” to the NDU sion, judgment, inspiration, and commitment to drive posi- faculty, staff and students Padilla arrived at a time of staff tive change. turbulence and financial uncertainty at the university, he noted, putting new curricula in place and fighting to ensure Whittle began by saying he couldn’t be more proud to be a the university received the proper funding to accomplish its combat engineer and referenced his first visit to Fort Leonard important mission. Dunford said the United States military Wood. will “double down” on professional military education.

“It’s great to be back,” Whittle said. “I was in one of the first As he looked across the audience, he noted a number of Officer Basic courses here at the Engineer School at Fort officers from allied militaries and said the source of the U.S. Leonard Wood. It’s been 27 years since the engineer school military’s strength is the network of allies and partners built

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up since World War II. Padilla has paid particular attention to reaching out to this network to increase the interna- tional flavor of the school, he added.

Dunford said he chose Roegge—a ca- reer submariner—to take the university to the next level because he combines a hard science education with a liberal arts degree. This, the chairman said, is a perfect combination for the leader of an institution such as NDU.

The National Defense University is the pinnacle of officer professional military education. It consists of the National War College, the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, the College of International Security Affairs, and the Joint Forces Staff College. The university also hosts the Pinnacle course for senior govern- ment leaders.

The institution is designed to foster development of joint security leaders and has students from all the military services, many civilian agencies, and international allies and partners. The military established the university in 1976.

General Officer Assignment DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PRESS OPERA- TIONS (OCT. 4, 2017) The chief of staff, Air Force announces the assignments of the following gen- eral officer: Maj. Gen. Stephen N. Whiting, director of integrated air, space, and cyberspace and intelli- gence, surveillance and reconnais- sance operations, Headquarters Air Force Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, to commander, 14th Air Force, Air Force Space Com- Left, Brig. Gen. Robert Whittle Jr., USAES commandant, receives the engineer guidon mand, Vandenberg Air Force Base, from Maj. Gen. Kent Savre, Maneuver Support Center of Excellence and Fort Leonard California. Wood commanding general, in a ceremony held Tuesday on MSCoE plaza. Photo by Michael Curtis

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No More Border: 7th MSC Commanding General Remembers End of the 7TH MISSION SUPPORT COMMAND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (OCT. 10, 2017) Lt. Col. Jefferson Wolfe , —Not much of the old East- West German border is left, but Brig. Gen. Fred Maiocco remembered what he saw in the fall of 1989.

It’s been almost thirty years since he was a lieu- tenant in the U.S Army on border patrol with the 1-68 Armor Battalion, at the end of the Cold War.

His unit was pulling support duty in November for the General Defense Plan of Germany along the Fulda Gap, which would have been a prime invasion route for forces had the Cold War erupted into actual warfare.

While on duty just south of the Fulda Gap near Observation Post Alpha, Maiocco saw East German people by the thousands storm the Brig. Gen. Fred Maiocco salutes as he and others honor German Unity Day gate and cross into the West for the first time. Oct. 2, 2017, at the Observation Post Alpha memorial near Fulda, Germany. Courtesy photo “I saw people literally getting out of their cars and kissing the ground,” he said. “This took place right outside of Fulda and that’s right OP Alpha was a Cold War observation post between where we lived.” , , in what was and , , then part of . The post overlooked And, 27 years later, he is back in Germany as a brigadier part of the Fulda Gap. general who commands the 7th Mission Support Command and is the deputy commanding general of the 21st Theater “It seems to me that there is no more suitable place than Sustainment Command. Observation Point Alpha for reflecting on the memory of the former which lay only meters away In his new roles, Maiocco returned to Fulda and OP Alpha from where we are gathered this evening,” Maiocco said to give a speech during a 2017 Day of German Unity event. during his speech. “It is here that we can perhaps best feel, and best sense what it really meant for a nation, for the Ger- “It was very special,” he said. man nation, to have been so cruelly divided and separated for so many years.” Known in German as Tag der Deutschen Einheit, Oct. 3 is Germany’s national holiday, and commemorates the anni- Nearly three decades later, American forces are still in Ger- versary of in 1990, when the hopes many, but in a different role, he told the crowd of about 200 for a united Germany were finally fulfilled after decades of who gathered for the ceremony. separation. “We are here as your guests,” Maiocco said. “We are here as “Nobody at that time thought there would ever be a united your partners. We are here as your neighbors. We are work- Germany,” Maiocco said. “Seemingly overnight, it happened. ing together with you, with a united Germany in contributing That’s why it was so extraordinary.” to security and stability in Europe.”

There is a similar a threat to European security today, he said.

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“Unfortunately, the threats to Europe’s security, so common “You can’t tell where the border was anymore,” he said. during the Cold War, are still with us today,” Maiocco said during his speech. “The illegal Russian annexation of Crimea The homes, which were then gray and still pock-marked with in 2014 and their armed intervention in eastern Ukraine since holes from World War II, have been restored and are now then have caused the NATO alliance, all 29 members, to brightly colored. There are signs of commerce all over the declare at a 2016 heads of state summit that we stand ready area. to deter further aggression.” OP Alpha and a small section of the border has been pre- German and American Soldiers are helping to do that in a served as a museum. It is the only memorial that has been variety of places in , he added. made out of what was left of the former border.

“The reason remains the same as in 1989—to deter those “I certainly would encourage soldiers to go and see it,” that would encroach upon our freedoms, to protect and pre- Maiocco said. “It’s an incredible tribute to the American in- serve the peace and prosperity of Europe,” Maiocco said. vestment and the efforts of our NATO allies, and a testimony to our partnership with Germany.” After his speech, Maiocco said the area looks significantly different today than it did when he was stationed there from 1988-1991.

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