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New Leader for ASC

Army Sustainment Command

The Army Sustainment Command, based on Arsenal Island, now has a new boss. Thursday during a change of command ceremony, Major General Steven Shapiro replaced Major General Duane Gamble.

Presiding at the ceremony was General Gustave Perna, commanding general of the Army Materiel Command. 

Shapiro comes to Arsenal Island from Germany, where he served as commanding general of the 21st Theater Support Command.   

Gamble took command of ASC two years ago, and his new assignment will be in Washington D.C. as the Army Deputy Chief of Staff, for logistics.
 

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.