What is it you do exactly?

One of my professors chided me after reading the entire blog and realizing that I never posted anything about my actual job over here. I guess I should rectify that.

As most of you know, back home I work for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), the supplier of almost everything a Soldier, Sailor, Airman, or Marine uses, wears, or eats on a daily basis. I also work for DLA in Iraq, just forward deployed. I am the Executive Officer (#2 guy) for the DLA Support Team (DST) in Iraq. We have 70 DLA military and civilian personnel scattered around Iraq at major troop concentration areas. These personnel help their units manipulate the DLA supply system to support troops and weapon systems, oversee the supply of all food and fuel, help the Iraqis to set up their own National Supply Depot (like DLA), remove and demilitarize scrap from U.S. FOBs, and many more missions. The DST Headquarters (where I am) is located at Camp Victory in Baghdad. There, we are attached to Multi-National Forces - Iraq (MNF-I) CJ1/4/8 which runs logistics policy for all of Iraq. MNF-I was formerly commanded by General David Petraeus, and is now commanded by General Odierno, while General Petraeus is his boss at U.S. Central Command. At the DST HQ, we lead and administer the team throughout Iraq and work on strategic level initiatives with MNF-I.

Our office is in one of the palaces on Camp Victory, actually the second largest one after the Al Faw Presidential Palace. The DST is in a converted dining room, which is pretty swanky. The picture included is from my desk.

I hope that captured what I do without losing anybody. If anyone has any questions, please drop me an email and I can answer in more detail.