FORT BELVOIR, Va. –
Little did they know matchmaking was in the cards for two Defense Logistics Agency Energy employees who went from co-workers to friends to spouses.
In 2008, Air Force (then Capt.) Lt. Col. Nick Moore and Jessica Moore (formerly Summers) were introduced by Jessica’s supervisor while stationed at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia.
“She must have had a sixth sense that we would be a great couple because she kept setting up situations where we would have to bump into each other,” Jessica Moore said. “Once we finally went on a date, I realized that he was the one.”
The co-workers met when Nick Moore was starting his assignment in the logistics readiness officer career broadening program at the 409th Supply Chain Management Squadron and Jessica Moore was a PALACE Acquire Intern program and an F-15 avionics materiel manager.
We clicked right off the bat,” she said. “We both have a love of fitness, mixed martial arts, dogs (we have two) and southern food!”
Nick Moore got a new assignment in 2010 with DLA Energy Naval Support Activity Bahrain. Jessica Moore took a leap of faith and left her Air Force position to move across the world with him and later found a position with DLA Energy as a fuels inventory manager at NSA Bahrain.
They returned to the states in 2011 to get married and start a family, now with three children. Nine years and five moves after they first met, they are living in Ramstein, Germany, where Nick Moore is the 86th Logistics Readiness Commander at the Ramstein Air Base.
“His squadron's mission has a wide scope that involves moving people, parts, and - most importantly for me - petroleum, oils and lubricants,” Jessica Moore said. “As the DLA Energy liaison officer to the United States Air Forces in Europe-Africa, I am the essential connection between DLA Energy and Air Force units on the ground in both Europe and Africa. With my assistance, we are able to convert their requirements into actual fuel for both aircraft and ground equipment, allowing the warfighter to complete the mission.”
As a hazard of the shared career, they definitely talk shop once they get home, she said.
“Nick has a phenomenal breadth of fuels experience, so it is only natural for me to ask for advice or throw out ‘what would you do’ scenarios to him,” Jessica Moore added. “As the LNO, I am in constant contact with my husband’s flight. They receive weekly pushes off the Central European Pipeline System, so we carefully monitor their levels of Jet A-1 fuel to make sure that they have enough fuel for all flying missions in and out of the air base. Ramstein Air Base also provides a substantial amount of presidential support, so DLA Energy stands ready to provide them with any additional lab services or testing that might be needed that is beyond the capabilities of their on-site lab.”
We have worked together, in some capacity, at four different assignments, she added.
“We tend to stay private about our military connection,” Jessica Moore said. “We have always kept it very professional and tried our hardest to not broadcast our relationship/association, but it always seemed to come up. At our last base it was quite apparent that we were married when my office threw me a baby shower and the Lt. Col. from upstairs showed up to partake in the festivities!”
The Moore family will be moving in summer 2018 to Hill Air Force Base, Utah, for Nick's next assignment as the 309th Commodities Maintenance Group Deputy Commander. Jessica Moore is planning to take a position with DLA Aviation and continue her career with the agency.