AFSC/LG deputy retires Published March 18, 2016 By Kimberly Woodruff Staff Writer TINKER AIR FORCE BASE Okla., -- Col. Jeff Meserve, deputy director of Logistics with the Air Force Sustainment Center, is retiring. The colonel, who has been stationed at Tinker twice, has some advice for the new deputy. "There's a ton of issues that you'll be dealing with, a mile wide, a mile deep," he said. "Don't get comfortable in one area because there are numerous challenges that LG helps the Center work through." LG essentially serves as the A2-A10 staff for AFSC, including operations and logistics integration, industrial and operational supply chain management, nuclear sustainment integration, process standardization, plans and programming, installations support, communications and IT integration, the colonel said. "It's an awesome organization," Colonel Meserve said. "We took the best of many organizations within AFSC to build the LG staff -- two-thirds of the LG team came from elements of the AFMC staff and the AF Global Logistics Support Center and is located in Dayton Ohio. We have a great team in Dayton and here in Oklahoma City." He said transitioning the elements of AFSC from three air logistics centers, a supply chain center and three air base wings to working together under one center commander for the first time ever was, and will continue to be, a big challenge. The supply chain community had a head start with the AFGLSC, but the global integration AF-wide has gone to a whole new level, he said. "Before AFSC, the three depots were competing, but I think now we have cooperation and a healthy competition in order to best support the warfighter customer. Now we're all doing it the same way ... the AFSC Way," said the colonel. "We are leading the Department of Defense and we will remain the premier repair network if we continue to evolve like we are." The colonel said his family loves Oklahoma City. After a 27 year Air Force career, he said they plan to settle in the local area.