Article: Navy newsstand (Feb. 4, 2007): Navy secretary announces award for Military Sealift Command contracting team.(Acquisition & Logistics Excellence)

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Navy Donald C. Winter announced Feb. 1 that a Military Sealift Command (MSC) contracting team won a 2006 Navy Competition and Procurement Excellence Award for chartering ships to rescue Americans stranded in Lebanon last year.

The team--Ken Allen, Lee Anderson, Olivia Bradley, Tim Pickering, Lance Nyman, and Dan Wentzell--worked with companies and brokers from around the world to ensure that more than 6,700 Americans were rescued and moved from war-torn Lebanon to safety in Cyprus during the July 2006 Israeli offensive against Hezbollah militants.

Though U.S. military ships also took part in the effort that eventually ...

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