Maj. Gen. Mitchell H. Stevenson, Fort Lee's commander, has been nominated to become the Army's top logistician.

President Bush has nominated Stevenson for promotion to lieutenant general and assignment as the Army's deputy chief of staff for logistics at the Pentagon.

Stevenson has been commander of the service's Combined Arms Support Command and Fort Lee since October 2005.

He was overseas and unavailable for comment on his nomination yesterday, according to a Fort Lee spokesman.

Stevenson would replace Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody, his predecessor at Fort Lee and the Support Command. Dunwoody is the Army's top-ranking woman.

Stevenson was born in Linz, Austria, the son of a career Army sergeant.

He was commissioned through the ROTC program at West Virginia University in May 1974.

Stevenson commanded a support battalion for the 24th Infantry Division during the Persian Gulf War.

A graduate of the Army's Command and General Staff College and the Army War College, he also holds a master's degree in logistics management from the Florida Institute of Technology.

Stevenson is married and the father of two children.

Logistics deals with the supply, movement and sustainment of people and equipment. Today, Army logisticians are working in more than 80 countries, supporting about 600,000 soldiers and their equipment, as well as forces from the other U.S. services.

Based at Fort Lee, the Combined Arms Support Command trains soldiers to provide support services and supplies to the Army's combat forces around the world.
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