Tenants

Marine Corps Logistics Command
Marine Corps Logistics Command is currently the largest tenant organization aboard Marine Corps Logistics Base, Albany, Ga.

With its headquarters element in Albany, under the command of Maj. Gen. Charles L. Hudson, Logistics Command provides customized strategic and operational logistical support to the Marine Corps.

Logistics Command is at the heart of Marine Corps logistics. It provides worldwide, integrated logistics/supply chain and distribution management, strategic prepositioning of materiel and depot-level maintenance management. Logistics Command's ability to transition focus to the changing needs of the warfighter while maintaining core competencies has established it as a world-class logistics organization.

Logistics Command is comprised of four subordinate commands. Two are the Department of Defense's premier multi-commodity maintenance centers — Maintenance Center Albany, located in Albany, Ga., and Maintenance Center Barstow, located in Barstow, Calif. Both maintenance centers provide depot-level repair and refurbishment of ground combat and combat support equipment.

Blount Island Command, located in Jacksonville, Fla., is the hub of the Marine Corps Prepositioning Program and a key enabler to the expeditionary forces. BICMD is a strategic asset for the Marine Corps, providing technical assistance to Marine Expeditionary Force commanders for all aspects of planning, deployment and sustainment of prepositioned assets, allowing flexibility and directly supporting power projection during a crisis anywhere in the world. Access to a large industrial base and Navy support structure provides an advantage not readily available to other sites. The private slipway with five large vessel berths, just seven miles from the St. John's River outlet, presents an excellent site for offloading of the three Maritime Prepositioned Ship Squadrons and other ships carrying retrograde equipment. This program also includes the Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway.

The fourth subordinate command is Marine Corps Logistics Command (Forward), Afghanistan. Marine Corps Logistics Comand (Forward) exercises command and control over all Logistics Command programs, resources, and personnel in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility to provide effective and economical operational-level logistics in support of and attached to the commander, Marine Forces Central Command.

Logistics Command takes significant pride in being the effective logistics service broker by providing logistics solutions and integration, and provides services, knowledge management, logistics operations opportunities, maintenance, performance and distribution management. Utilizing forward-deployed support teams at the Marine Forces, Marine Expeditionary Forces, and Marine Corps Systems Command, Logistics Command becomes more familiar with the warfighters' issues and concerns, providing customized logistics solutions for their unique needs. Logistics Command has deployed logistics personnel worldwide to relieve the logistics burden of the warfighters: Remain Behind Equipment maintenance; equipment receipt and distribution; Consolidated Issue Facilities, Reparable Issue Points and Corrosion Rehabilitation Facilities.

Logistics Command personnel form an enterprise workforce that has the single focus of "Providing Logistics Solutions for the Warfighter."

Maintenance Center Albany
Maintenance Center Albany's motto says it all: "What YOU do is IMPORTANT. Every day a MARINE'S LIFE will depend on it!"

Maintenance Center Albany is a multi-commodity maintenance repair facility that supports the Marine Corps and other customers with the repair of ground combat and combat support equipment. As an integral part of Marine Corps Logistics Command, MCA provides critical support to the equipment currently used in overseas contingencies operations.

With a mix of about 2,100 civilians, contractors and active-duty Marines, MCA concurrently works more than 490 different lines at one time. Maintenance center personnel repair and remanufacture all types of military ordnance, motor transport, engineering, general purpose, electronic and communication equipment. This includes major end items and various secondary depot reparable components. MCA staff also provides calibration support and Inspect- and-Repair-Only-as-Necessary support to various Marine Corps customers as well as prepares for shipment and care-in-store support to remote storage activities.

More than 80 percent of its workforce is cross-trained to work in more than one commodity area. With this type of diversity, the workload here can be adjusted literally overnight to meet the mission-critical requirements of national security or power projection.

MCA's multi-commodity maintenance concept works — it is responsive to the Marine Corps' requirements, is paid for with less than 1 percent of the total Department of Defense dollars dedicated to depot maintenance, and it is an integral part of the nation's 9-1-1 force-in-readiness.

MCA was established on Feb. 1, 1954, as the Repair Branch, Marine Corps Depot of Supplies, Albany, Ga., and it began repair production on Oct. 1, 1954. On July 1, 1956, the name changed to Repair Division, and during July 1968, it became an Industrial Fund Activity, which means it operates its business using the financial principles and practices commonly found in the private sector.

During the 1960s and 1970s, the Repair Division provided significant depot support to Marine Forces worldwide, including the Vietnam conflict. Today, the center continues to accomplish a variety of innovative projects and support activities. MCA received a Meritorious Unit Commendation in August 2002 for providing more than 1 million pounds of armor kits for vehicles involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Other notables include:
• 2004: MCA was presented a Meritorious Unit Commendation from the Secretary of the Navy for providing, under cost and under budget, more than 1 million pounds of armor kits for vehicles involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
• 2005: MCA received the Secretary of Defense Robert T. Mason Award for Depot Maintenance Excellence. This prestigious award recognized MCA for outstanding maintenance contributions within the Department of Defense.
• 2006: Marine Logistics Unit of the Year
• 2007: MCA received a second Robert T. Mason Award for its design and prototyping effort of several different Marine Corps requirements.
• 2008: MCA received the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization's Achievement Award, which represents the best organization in improving efficiencies in production facilities.
• 2009: Robert E. Fox Award for management excellence
• 2009: Marine Corps Merit in Safety Award
• 2010: Albany Dougherty Economic Development Commission Excellence in Innovation
• 2011: Marine Corps Continuous Process Improvement Excellence Award

American Federation of
Government Employees,
Local 2317
The American Federation of Government Employees is the largest federal employee union representing more than 600,000 federal and Washington, D.C., government workers nationwide and overseas. Employees in virtually all functions of government at every federal agency depend upon AFGE for legal representation, legislative advocacy, technical expertise and informational services.

The union is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and divided into 12 geographical districts consisting of some 1,100 locals. More than one-half of AFGE's members are consolidated into agency-wide bargaining units. Agencies with the highest concentration of union membership include the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Social Security Administration and the Department of Justice.

AFGE, Local 2317 is located in Building 3600 and its phone numbers are (229) 435-3800 and (229) 639-5526.

AFGE, Local 2317 is located in the fifth district and the district vice president is Everett Kelly, whose office is in Atlanta, Ga.

AFGE, Local 2317 is currently the second largest local union representing bargaining unit employees within the Marine Corps.

Defense Logistics Agency
Distribution Albany, Ga.
A distribution center of Defense Logistics Agency Distribution, DLA Distribution Albany, Ga., is the primary source of storage and distribution of secondary repair parts and expendables for the Marine Corps Logistics Command on Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, Ga.

The distribution center stocks a wide range of commonly ordered items by the military services and other Department of Defense customers. Items stored include meals ready-to-eat, clothing and textiles, construction materials, electrical supplies, electronic components, secondary repair parts and many more items. In addition to the basic receive, store and ship mission, DLA Distribution Albany, Ga., performs preservation and packaging; stock readiness inspection, unit, kit and set assembly; marking; and reclassification of material.

Albany performs unique missions that includes providing all the transportation management functions for MCLB Albany and tenant activities, storing Nuclear Biological and Chemical Personal Protective Equipment, and supporting the Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected vehicle project. Resources managed include special storage for radiological material, dehumidified storage for subsistence, and storage for textiles and clothing for all DoD services worldwide.

Defense Logistics
Agency-Document Services
Defense Logistics Agency Document Services is the primary source of full service document solutions for MCLB Albany and the tenants aboard the base.

In addition to printing and duplicating, there are a multitude of other document-related services including the building of libraries of digital documents allowing for online access, the provision of multifunction devices (that print from networks, copy, fax and scan) in the customers' workspaces and conversion of paper documents to standard digital formats. With the large format document scanner, staff can scan or copy a wide range of sizes from 8.5 x 11 up to 36 x any length, with a resolution of 600 DPI, assuring excellent output to digital files or hard copies for distribution to many formats to meet customer requirements. Offline bindery such as screw posting, spiral binding, tape binding and stitching are available. Color printing, laminating and poster prints are also part of the many varied services offered.

For example, the Electronic Document Management Service is used to assist the Defense Distribution Center in electronically capturing, processing, managing and storing millions of documents such as invoices, packing lists and bills of lading that help identify receipt, transportation and inventory transactions used in supplying U.S. military units.

A Web-based system for ordering services from DLA Document Services is available online at https://www.dso.documentservices.dla.mil. Following the user-friendly instructions, customers can design job specifications, submit a document file and receive a cost estimate prior to finalizing their orders. Customers can even electronically proof a job in progress. When print orders are completed, DLA Document Services will ship it to any location or have it ready for pickup at a convenient facility. DLA Document Services Online is designed for military and government agency customers. It meets all government security requirements, specifically for the Department of Defense.

Defense Reutilization
and Marketing Service
Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service, a field activity of the Defense Logistics Agency, should be your first source of supply. Any equipment located on DRMS's website can be obtained and shipped to Department of Defense activities at no cost to your command.

DoD activities are saving millions of dollars every year through the DRMS Reutilization Program. From routine supply requirements to specialized equipment, a wealth of excess, "ready-to-reuse" property is received daily by DRMS. By taking advantage of the DRMS Reutilization Program, DoD activities can reduce procurement costs and eliminate unnecessary repair dollars. Every dollar's worth of property reutilized is a supply dollar saved.

Staff also provides the DoD best value services and delivers great performance to customers for the reuse, transfer, donation, sale or disposal of excess/surplus property. Marine units from around the world have taken advantage and reutilized DoD excess property. In the first two months of fiscal year 2008 more than $41 million worth of property has been reutilized back to the Marines.

Go to the DRMS website at http://www.drms.dla.mil, click on Property Search for Military, Federal, State and Special Programs link. From there, customers will find a wealth of services provided from conducting a property search, submitting a MILSTRIP requisition, or building want lists and much more.

MCLB Albany is serviced by DRMO personnel from Fort Benning, Ga. Scrap metal will be accepted at the scrap yard on base, Tuesdays from 8 a.m. to noon.

For scrap metal turn-ins, call (706) 545-6027 or (602) 920-7626. To turn in usable property, call Disposal Service Representatives at (706) 545-7318, DSN 835 or (706) 545-6026, DSN 835, in Warner Robins, Ga., at (478) 926-4557, DSN 468.

Dan McKinney, located at MCLB Albany, a major command representative with DRMS to the Marine Corps, can be contacted at daniel.mckinney@dla.mil or by calling (904) 894-8235.

Department of Defense, Defense Security Cooperation Agency Humanitarian
Assistance-Excess Property Program
The Department of Defense, Defense Security Cooperation Agency Humanitarian Assistance - Excess Property Program at Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, Ga., permits the DoD to make available, prepare and transport non-lethal excess property to foreign countries when requested by the Department of State.

Through the excess property program, DoD donates and distributes excess property to U.S. government efforts to avert humanitarian crises, promote democratic development and regional stability and enable countries to recover from conflict. Examples of excess property typically provided include medical equipment and supplies, generators and other electrical equipment, school supplies, tools, furniture, tents, blankets, sleeping bags and clothing. Excess property made available for humanitarian relief purposes is transferred to the Department of State, which is responsible for the distribution to the intended recipient (normally a host nation government, a charitable-type organization, or a non-governmental organization).

When a natural disaster occurs, the HA-EP facilities can assist by providing disaster relief supplies such as medical supplies, tents, blankets and humanitarian daily rations. This way the program can also be used to stave off or mitigate the effects of acute crises and therefore minimize the need to deploy U.S. forces.

The consolidated EP facility in Albany, Ga., prepares the property for shipment for U.S. Central Command and U.S. Southern Command recipients.

The HA-EP warehouse located in Okinawa, Japan, provides EP storage, refurbishment and shipment for U.S. Pacific Command. Additionally, the HA-EP warehouse located in Livorno, Italy, provides storage and shipments for U.S. European and African Commands.

Detachment 2, Supply Company, 4th Supply Battalion
The mission of Detachment 2, Supply Company, 4th Supply Battalion, is to field, train and provide qualified supply augmentees and capabilities to the active component; to assist and support 4th Supply Bn. when tasked to serve as a Combat Logistics Regiment headquarters; to support 4th Supply Bn. in its mission to serve as the Marine Forces Reserve intermediate supply activity for designated classes of supply. Marines also work hand-in-hand with the Marine Forces Reserve Critical Asset Rapid Distribution Facility aboard MCLB Albany in receiving, storing and accounting for and distributing various personal-issue items used by MFR Marines and sailors for exercises and deployment.

The Marines hail from all over Southwest Georgia, North Florida and even parts of Alabama. The Marines come from various backgrounds and civilian occupations and are college students, firefighters, law enforcement officers, railroad workers, lifeguards, correction officers, accountants, mechanics and many more. The Marines bring so many different skill sets to the table that the unit is able to diversify its training with the opportunities that are available.

The detachment also aggressively supports and assists the base and local community in many ways. Some examples are (this list is not inclusive): providing color guard and funeral details, casualty assistance and the annual Toys for Tots Program, which provides gifts for underprivileged children of the community. At the detachment, an Inspector-Instructor staff provides equipment, training, administrative and logistical support necessary for the Marines of Detachment 2 to accomplish their mission in the most efficient and proficient means possible.

Joint Equipment Assessment
Program for Chemical and
Biological Defense
Chartered by the Joint Program Executive Officer for Chemical and Biological Defense, the Joint Equipment Assessment Program is responsible for integrated technical and business processes, which support surveillance, assessment, life-cycle testing, reutilization and disposal of chemical and biological defense equipment for joint and Department of Defense operations.

Joint Equipment Assessment Units perform non-destructive testing and assessments on fielded CBD assets for retail and wholesale storage. JEAP staff are trained and certified in product inspection and use of defense chemical test equipment. This service and support provides statistical data to the joint program managers, services and other DoD agencies on trend analysis, latent defects and storage issues of CBD equipment.

The JEAP also provides test management services for CBD clothing and textiles. The JEAP develops and maintains technical expertise in support of DoD requirements for total life cycle management of CBD equipment.

One example, the Joint Service Set-Aside Program receives production lot samples of CBD assets from the manufacturer, consolidates those assets in warehouses that are geographically located for equipment acclimatization and surveillance testing. When due for testing, the samples are shipped to the Joint Test Operation Center to be processed for testing. Once testing is complete, the life cycle support team alerts services, joint units and joint project managers of the test results.

The Defense Accountability, Reutilization and Disposal Project, established as a result of Congressional concerns for safety and national security, works with DLA Headquarters and DLA Disposition Services to provide accountability of all DoD CBD assets. The DARD project also ensures proper demilitarization and/or recycling of unserviceable CBD assets, and monitors Internet sites to prevent unauthorized sales of U.S. military CBD equipment, ensuring that it is not released to the public and/or acquired by hostile nations. Through recycling processes the DoD has realized a disposal cost avoidance of $700k annually. These are just a few of the services the program provides.

Marine Corps Systems Command
Marine Corps Systems Command is the commandant's agent for acquisition and sustainment of systems and equipment used to accomplish the Marine Corps' warfighting mission. The command outfits United States Marines with literally everything they drive, shoot and wear. Staff's focus is the young Marine in harm's way, protecting him or her, and providing this warfighter the wherewithal to execute the mission.

MCSC's team of professional civilian-Marines and active-duty Marines equips the warfighter to win. They listen, learn, research, develop, test, procure and sustain — whatever it takes to get Marines what they need, when they need it efficiently and for the best value possible.

Using highly effective, streamlined and innovative business processes, the command works hard to be timely and consistent in providing quality systems and equipment to the operating forces, and then expertly manages systems and equipment during the entire lifecycle.

The technological advantage MCSC provides helps Marines to shoot straighter, move faster and communicate more effectively so they can continue the Marine Corps' proud and valorous tradition of winning battles in every climate and locale. The command cares deeply about each and every individual Marine and works on a daily basis with one thought in mind — to provide Marines with the systems and equipment necessary to ensure they return home to their families safe and sound.

MCSC's headquarters is located at Hospital Point in Quantico, Va., with subordinate organizations located in California, Florida, Georgia and New Jersey. MCSC personnel aboard MCLB Albany are involved in the product support management of ground combat equipment and information technology systems. The roughly 300 Marines, civilian-Marines and civilian contractors are structured under the Competency Aligned Organization to be members of integrated product teams in support of the Marine Corps' product groups and program managers.

Marine Forces Reserve, G-4, Supply Management Unit
Detachment-Albany
The Marine Forces Reserve G-4 Supply Management Unit Detachment-Albany serves as the intermediate supply point for more than 180 MFR sites across the United States. Its 120,000-square-foot warehouse facility serves as a receiving, storage and distribution point for assets required by MFR units, with a focus on Class II individual equipment items.

Naval Facilities
Engineering Command
The mission of the Resident Officer-in-Charge of Construction is to enhance the readiness and capabilities of supported commands by safely delivering quality services and construction on time and within budget. ROICC Albany is a field office and reports to Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast, headquartered at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Fla.

The ROICC office is responsible for awarding and administering service, construction and engineering contracts at MCLB Albany; Naval Support Activity, Athens, Ga.; and Naval Air Station, Atlanta, Ga.