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Article: DLA: logistics backbone of Iraqi Freedom.(Defense Logistics Agency)
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- Army Logistician
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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The impressive U.S. performance in Operation Iraqi Freedom demonstrated the success of many of the changes underway throughout the Department of Defense (DOD). Among the DOD elements that showcased their growing capabilities in the war was the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), which is now DOD's largest combat support agency. As Major General Hawthorne J. Proctor, DLA's Director of Operations, commented, "If a soldier, sailor, airman, or marine eats it, wears it, fights with it, maintains their equipment with it, or in some manner burns it for fuel, DLA likely provided it." DLA's central role in logistics was amply exhibited in Iraqi Freedom.
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