Joint Logistics Fireside Chat

Balancing Readiness and Resources

Lt Gen Brooks Bash Director for Logistics, Joint Staff (J4)

• Commands – Vice Commander, Pacific Air Forces – 321st Air Expeditionary Wing, Iraq – Coalition Air Force Training Team, Iraq – 15th Expeditionary Mobility Task Force – 437th Airlift Wing – 89th Operations Group – 6th & 4413th Air Refueling Squadrons

• Director of Operations, Air Mobility Command • Air Component Coordination Element (Operation

Tomodachi) • Deputy Executive Secretary, National Security

Council, Office of the President (Clinton and Bush Administrations)

• Deputy Director, Mobility Forces (Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom

• Director, Mobility Forces (Operation Unified Assistance)

• Over 6,500 flight hours in 16 different aircraft

LTG Kathleen Gainey Deputy Commander, USTRANSCOM

• Commands – CG, Surface Deployment and Distribution

Command (Scott AFB, IL) – Defense Distribution Center (New

Cumberland, PA) – 7th Corps Support Group – 6th Transportation Battalion

• Special Assistant, Army Chief of Staff • Chief, Joint Operations Division,

USTRANSCOM • Director, Force Projection and Distribution,

Army G-4 • Deputy Chief of Staff, Resources and

Sustainment, MNF-I (Operation Iraqi Freedom) • Director for Logistics, the Joint Staff

VADM Mark Harnitchek Director, Defense Logistics Agency

• Commands: – Defense Logistics Agency – Naval Inventory Control Point

• Sea tours: – Submarines: USS Will Rogers & USS Buffalo – Surface Ships: USS Holland & USS Proteus – Carrier: USS Theodore Roosevelt

• Shore tours: – Commander, Submarine Group 7 – Naval Air Station Oceana, VA – Chief of Naval Operations Staff

• Flag Officer assignments: – Deputy Commander, USTRANSCOM – Director, USCENTCOM Deployment and

Distribution Operations Center (CDDOC) – Director, Strategy, Policy, Programs &

Logistics (J5/4), USTRANSCOM – Vice Director for Logistics (J4) Joint Chiefs

of Staff

Lt Gen Judith Fedder Deputy Chief of Staff, Logistics, Installations and Mission

Support, HQ USAF (A4/7)

• Commands – 76th Maintenance Wing – 65th Air Base Wing & Sub-unified

Commander, US Forces Azores – 31st Logistics Group – 46th Equipment Maintenance Squadron – 46th Component Repair Squadron

• Chief, Logistics Management, Operations Proven Force and Provide Comfort

• Deputy Directory, Office of Legislative Liaison, Secretary of the Air force

• Director of Logistics, Air Combat Command • Director of Logistics, Deputy Chief of Staff for

Logistics, Installations, and Mission Support, HQ, USAF

VADM Phil Cullom Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Fleet Readiness

and Logistics (N4)

• Commands – Commander, Carrier Strike Group Eight – Commander, Amphibious Squadron Three – Commander, USS Mitscher (DDG 57)

• Sea Tours – USS Truxton (CGN 35) – USS Jesse L. Brown (FF 1089) – USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) – USS Mobile Bay (CG 53)

• White House Fellow, Director of the Office of Management and Budget

• Director, Defense Policy/Arms Control, National Security Council Staff

• Director, Deep Blue • Director, Fleet Readiness Division (N43) • Director, Energy and Environmental Readiness

Division (N45)

MajGen Mike Dana Director, Logistics Plans, Policies and Strategic Mobility Division

• Commands – CG, 2d Marine Logistics Group (Afghanistan) – Marine Wing Support Group 37 (Iraq) – Marine Wing Support Squadron 373 – Company Commander, 1st Landing Support

Battalion (Somalia) • J4, NORAD-NORTHCOM (Haiti) • EUCOM J-5 • Deputy G-3, III MEF • G-7/3d, Marine MEB Chief of Staff • G-4 Operations Officer, II MEF • Plans Officer, SFOR Theater Support

Command, Former Republic of Yugoslavia • S-3, 1st Landing Support Battalion • S-4, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines (Desert Storm) • Combat Cargo Officer, USS Duluth(LPD-6)

LTG Ray Mason Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics (G-4)

• Commands – CG, 8th Theater Support Command – CG, 19th Sustainment Command

(Expeditionary) – Army Materiel Command Forward-

Southwest Asia – Defense Supply Center Philadelphia – Division Support Command, 25th Infantry

Division (Light) – 407th Forward Support Battalion, 82nd

Airborne Division • Deputy Chief of Staff (G-4), US Forces

Command • C-4, Coalition Forces Land Component

Command, Kuwait • Deputy Commander, US Army Field Support

Command

Joint Logistics Fireside Chat

Balancing Readiness and Resources