U.S. Transportation Command

U.S. Transportation Command Commander Jacqueline Van Ovost is retiring after more than three decades in the military. The pilot was one of relatively few women four-star generals in the U.S.

Headquartered at the Metro East base, the command will assume the role from the Defense Logistics Agency.

For Women’s History Month, Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, who leads the U.S. Transportation Command based at Scott Air Force Base, discussed her experience as a woman in the military at an event Monday.

On a near daily basis, the U.S. Transportation Command loads planes, ships and vehicles with supplies bound for Ukraine.

The facility will include a first-ever innovation center, where people without security clearances can work alongside NGA staff on problems or issues the agency regularly grapples with.

“Logistics is very important to any operation, and I think our logistics prowess has shown itself over and over again,” said Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost.

“We learned only a couple hours before the president made the announcement that the Department of Defense was going to be a part of this,” said one member of TRANSCOM at Scott. The first shipment arrived this past weekend.

The U.S. Transportation Command coordinates the logistical movement of troops and supplies for the country’s military.