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DoD Logistics Chief: Haiti Relief Effort Not Encumbering U.S. Military

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Friday, January 29th, 2010

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The U.S. military's participation in the international relief effort in Haiti has not stretched thin the military supply chain or otherwise undermined ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon's top logistician said earlier this week. "I am not concerned that what we're doing today we cannot handle," Vice Adm. Alan Thompson, director of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), told reporters at a Defense Writers Group breakfast in Washington. "We have a lot of capabilities and capacities in the agency…

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