DeCA Store Directors Ring Up Changes

• Fort Lee
hese employees are consid-
“Tered to be among our best and
brightest,” said DeCA Director and
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Philip
E. Sakowitz Jr. when he commented
on a recent series of new executive assignments
and store director appointments
(see E and C News 5/10). “Our
agency will be stronger as they assume
the mantle of increased responsibilities
in their new assignments.”
NEW STORE DIRECTORS
Among those taking up new store
director positions were Leslie Carroll,
now store director at Fort Lee,
Va. She recently completed a year as
store director at NAEC Lakehurst, N.J.,
which marked her return to DeCA after
a 14-year break in her commissary career.
Succeeding Carroll at Lakehurst
Commissary is Donald Mitchell, who
completed two years as store manager
DeCA Store Directors
Ring Up Changes
at Yokota AB, Japan.
Charlita Covington is the new
store director of the NSA New
Orleans, La. She arrived at her
assignment in early March after
serving two years as the store
administrator for the Chièvres
Commissary, Belgium.
Riccardo Lieffort, store director,
RAF Lakenheath, England,
is the new store director at Mc-
Chord AFB, Wash. He succeeds
Victoria Best-Rush, currently
Zone 12 manager.
Cory Reilly, store director at
NAS Fallon, Nev., is the new
store director for the Sasebo and
Hario commissaries, both located
aboard FA Sasebo, Japan. He
succeeds Barney Patsel, who
retired in October 2009 after
15 years of civil service.
Velma Siler, store director at
NAF El Centro, Calif., is the new
Carroll
Mitchell Covington
Reilly Siler
Peach
Lieffort
Testerman

Piccolo Pudwill Feggans
store director at NAS Corpus Christi,
Texas. She succeeds Blair Marshburn,
who retired in November 2009.
Drew Peach, who served for two
years as store director at Altus AFB,
Okla., was named the store director
at NAS North Island, Calif. Former
North Island Store Director Thomas
Testerman was named as the new store
director for Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
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Anthony Piccolo, who was the store
director at Fort Hamiliton, N.Y., is the
new store director at Kirtland AFB,
N.M. Former Kirtland AFB Store
Director Air Force Reserve Lt. Col.
Dale Pudwill, is serving a four-year
assignment with the services squadron
at Ramstein AB, Germany.
William Feggans, general manager
at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., was named
Hoak-Kagey
DeJesus Marino
Smith
store director at MCLB Barstow,
Calif. He succeeds Robert Hoak-
Kagey, who was chosen as store
administrator at Fort Irwin, Calif.
Teresa DeJesus, store director
at Garmisch, Germany, is the new
store director at Lajes Field, Portugal.
She succeeds Jim Marino,
the new store director at NSA
Annapolis, Md.
Rhonda Smith, store director
at Barbers Point, Hawaii, was
named store director at Fort Carson,
Colo., succeeding Monique
Mullin-Mings, who is now the
Ramstein, Germany, Zone 32
manager.
Marjorie “Chris” Milligan,
store administrator at Robins
AFB, Ga., was assigned as store
director at Fort Sam Houston,
Texas, where she succeeds
Milligan
Maastricht
Ralph Maastricht, who is now
store administrator at Randolph
AFB, Texas.
Lori Looney, general manager
(GM) at Grand Forks AFB, N.D.,
was named store director at the
installation. She succeeds Royden
Hunnewell, now store director at
Moody AFB, Ga.
Edwin Auld, store administrator
at Holloman AFB, N.M., was
selected as the installation’s store
Looney
Hunnewell
director. He follows Mike Bathgate,
now the store administrator
at USAG Wiesbaden, Germany.
Ronald Yoder, store director at
Sagamihara Housing Area, Japan,
moves to the same position at
Yokota AB, Japan. He succeeds
Michael Auderer, now store administrator
at Misawa AB, Japan.
Finally, Sheila Bramlett, Fort
Belvoir, Va. GM, was named store
director, Scott AFB, Ill., and Be-
Auld Bathgate
linda Little, store administrator,
Incirlik, Turkey, was assigned as
store director, Garmisch, Germany.
As of presstime, no replacements
had been announced for
vacant administrator, store director,
or general manager positions
at RAF Lakenheath, NAS Fallon,
NAF El Centro, Altus AFB, Fort
Hamilton, Fort Huachuca, Robins
AFB, Holloman AFB and Sag-
Yoder Auderer
amihara. —E and C NEWS Bramlett Little
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