DLA Aviation “purple” reserve forces answering the call
Maj. Randy Gabriel is one of two Marines assigned to the 34-member Defense Logistics Agency Joint Reserve Force unit in Richmond, Virginia. He is currently on the tail end of a three-month deployment in support of Marine Rotational Force-Darwin in Darwin, Australia, serving as the DLA Indo-Pacific liaison officer to all exercise and operations going on in that area of responsibility. In his civilian job, Gabriel is a logistics program manager at Naval Air Systems Command at Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Maryland.