A Look Back At The Defense Logistic Agency's Support of Counter Narcotics and Special Operations

 I’ve wanted to be a writer since I was a 12-year-old growing up in South Philadelphia. 

I wrote my first published pieces when I was an 18-year-old sailor serving aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam War. I wrote three pieces for the ship’s newspaper. 

Many years later, when I was serving as the civilian chief of Installation Services for a Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) command collocated with the Defense Personnel Support Center (DPSC), known locally as the "Quartermaster," in Philadelphia, I became a contributing writer to the command’s in-house magazine. 

As the chief of Installation Services, I oversaw security, safety and other support services for the command. In 1986 I also became the public affairs representative of the command. 

Several of my articles in the Philadelphia command’s magazine were picked up and published in Dimensions, DLA’s magazine, which was distributed worldwide to military and civilian DOD employees.   

You can read one of my pieces above and below:

You can also read another one of my DLA pieces below: 

I went on from writing for Defense Department magazines to writing for newspapers such as the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer, and later the Washington Times. I also became a regular contributor to the South Philly Review, my hometown paper, where today I write a weekly Crime Beat column.