ON THE MOVE
U.S. ARMY MATERIEL COMMAND (AMC)
NEW LEADERSHIP AT AMC Gen. Gustave F. “Gus” Perna receives the AMC colors from Gen. Mark A. Milley, Army chief of staff. Perna assumed command of AMC from outgoing Commanding General (CG) Gen. Dennis L. Via during a Sept. 30, 2016, ceremony at Redstone Arsenal, Ala- bama.
Perna, whom Milley promoted in a private ceremony preceding the change of command, returns to AMC after serving two years as the Army’s deputy chief of staff, G-4, overseeing policies and procedures for Army logisticians worldwide. Previously he was AMC’s deputy chief of staff for logistics and operations.
His other posts include CG, Joint Munitions Command and Joint Munitions and Lethality Life Cycle Management Command; com- mander, Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Defense Logistics Agency; and commander, 4th Sustainment Brigade, 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized). He holds an M.S. in logistics management from the Florida Institute of Technology, a B.S. in business management from the University of Maryland University College and an A.S. in business from Valley Forge Military Junior College. (Photo by Doug Brewster, AMC)
VIA RETIRES AFTER 36 YEARS After relinquishing the reins of AMC, Gen. Dennis L. Via, right, officially ended his Army career with a retirement ceremony led by Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia, on Oct. 6, 2016.
Via became the 18th CG of AMC in August 2012 and was the only CG to serve the entire tenure at Redstone Arsenal. The first member of his family to obtain a college degree, Via is one of eight African-American four-star gener- als and the first Signal Corps officer to achieve the rank. He previously served as AMC dep- uty CG and chief of staff under Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody.
“While leaving is a very difficult and lonely task, for sure, and certainly bittersweet, I do so proudly, knowing that I have been extremely fortunate and blessed to have served with some of our finest leaders, Soldiers and De- partment of the Army civilians our nation has produced,” Via said.
Commissioned into the Army in 1980 at Virgin- ia State University as a distinguished military graduate with a B.S. in industrial arts, Via also earned a master’s in human resources from Boston University and attended the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College. He commanded at ev- ery echelon of the Signal Corps in the course
of his Army career and made his mark in the field of cybersecurity, serving as director for command, control, communications and com- puter systems, J-6, for the Joint Staff and pre- viously as CG of U.S. Army Communications- Electronics Life Cycle Management Command and Fort Monmouth in New Jersey.
An Oct. 13 article in the Pentagram newspa- per quoted Milley’s praise for Via’s leadership of AMC. “It is an unbelievably complex and exceptionally competent organization”—with a presence in all 50 states and 144 countries and a budget of more than $50 billion—“and Dennis led it all,” Milley said. “You can leave our ranks today with the confidence that you leave behind a generation of leaders who’ve grown up under your outstanding mentorship,” he told Via.
Among his awards and decorations, Via is a recipient of the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Service Medal (with two bronze oak leaf clusters (OLCs)), Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (with one bronze OLC), Defense Meritorious Ser- vice Medal (with one bronze OLC), Meritorious Service Medal (with four bronze OLCs), Army Commendation Medal (with one bronze OLC), Joint Service Achievement Medal and Army Achievement Medal. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Chuck Burden, HQDA)
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Army AL&T Magazine
January-March 2017
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