By NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center Sigonella Public Affairs
Even as our command’s members prepared to celebrate the holiday season and New Year, we remained focused on our logistics support mission of ensuring fleet readiness and improving processes for how we do business.
For examples of both, look no further than our team at Site Souda Bay whose fuels professionals opened a new fuels lab earlier in December. Also in December, the Site’s logistics support (LS), forklift, postal and HAZMAT teams completed a Continuous Maintenance Availability (CMAV) for an Ohio-class guided-missile submarine.
“Our teams demonstrated our capability to support the mission of CMAV services for the sub,” said Charles Tanner, Site Souda Bay’s logistics support representative. “Our people executed with great skill and proficiency so that the USS Florida could get back to sea on schedule.”
The site’s new fuels lab features state-of-the-art safety and testing equipment like electrostatic grounding strips, non-absorbent table and wall surfaces, an enlarged testing work station, a climate controlled ventilation system and an anti-contamination shower.
“Our new lab enhances our technicians’ efficiency in performing the very important job of testing fuel, while sparing no expense for their personal safety,” said Lt. Cmdr. Jaron Goldstein, director, NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center (FLC) Sigonella Site Souda Bay.
Strategically positioned at Naval Support Activity Souda Bay, Greece, Site Souda Bay is one of NAVSUP FLC Sigonella’s five logistics sites in the Navy Region Europe, Africa, Central area of operations (EURAFCENT AOR). NAVSUP FLC Sigonella is one of NAVSUP’s eight globallypositioned logistics centers that provides for the full range of the fleet’s military operations. The Command delivers solutions for logistics, business and support services to the Navy, Military Sealift Command, Joint and Allied Forces throughout EURAFCENT.