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Rear Admiral Kenneth W. Epps

Supply Corps, United States Navy
Commander, Naval Supply Systems Command
and 50th Chief of Supply Corps

Rear Adm. Epps is a 1990 graduate of Vanderbilt University where he commissioned through the Reserve Officers Training Corps program.  He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was the recipient of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Award for Excellence and is a distinguished graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

Epps previously commanded Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Weapon Systems Support and the Fleet Logistics Center in Pearl Harbor.  Afloat, he served on USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63), USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55) and USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70).       

Other assignments include instructor and educational counselor, Navy Supply Corps School; aide and flag lieutenant to Commander, NAVSUP and Chief of Supply Corps; readiness analyst and program objective memorandum development assistant, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (N80); action officer, Defense Logistics Agency (J3); director, material budgets, Naval Inventory Control Point, Philadelphia; assistant commander for financial management and comptroller, NAVSUP; chief, strategy and readiness division, Joint Staff (J4); assistant commander for supply operations and logistics policy, NAVSUP; assistant professor, Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy; and director, fleet ordnance and supply, U.S. Fleet Forces Command.

His personal awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Joint Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, and Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal.


Photo of Kurt J. Wendelken - Vice Commander, Naval Supply Systems CommandKaren Fenstermacher

Performing the duties of Vice Commander, Naval Supply Systems Command

Ms. Fenstermacher is currently performing the duties of vice commander, Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP), located in Mechanicsburg, PA.

Ms. Fenstermacher was selected to the Senior Executive Service in 2004. Prior to her present assignment she served as the executive for strategic initiatives, NAVSUP, where she was responsible for the oversight of efforts which advanced the Command's reform program, auditability, and other areas aimed at restoring readiness and increasing lethality. Ms. Fenstermacher spearheaded implementation of strategic supplier relationship management across both the aviation and maritime vendor base. Other assignments include deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for financial operations, located in the National Capitol Region, commander for financial management and comptroller; assistant commander for Enterprise business operations; director of corporate operations; and command information officer, all at NAVSUP.

Ms. Fenstermacher graduated from Elms College, Chicopee, MA, with a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Economics, spending a year studying at the London School of Economics. She holds a master’s degree in Strategic Studies from U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA.

She joined the federal government after graduating from college in 1990. Prior to her assignments at NAVSUP, she served in the Washington, DC area as a financial systems analyst with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Comptroller; financial analyst on the staff of the Senate Arms Services Committee; and program manager in the Navy Budget Office. She has authored numerous technical papers and presentations in the area of finance.

Ms. Fenstermacher received the Meritorious Executive Presidential Rank Award in both 2011 and 2017. She was the recipient of the Distinguished Civilian Service Award in 2014 and 2016 and the Meritorious Civilian Service Award in 2000. She holds professional memberships in the American Society for Military Comptrollers and Level III certification in the Acquisition Professional Community.


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Captain Joseph R. Bossi
Supply Corps, United States Navy

Chief of Staff, Naval Supply Systems Command

Captain Joseph Bossi is a native of Skaneateles, New York, and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 2004 with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. He was a four-year letterman on the United States Naval Academy lacrosse team and was awarded United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association All-American honors in his senior year. He holds a master’s degree in Business Administration and a Graduate Certificate in Petroleum Management from the University of Kansas.

His operational assignments include the command group political advisor aide, Combined Forces Command, Kabul, Afghanistan; assistant supply officer, USS Laboon (DDG 58), Norfolk, VA; supply officer N4, SEAL Team ONE, Coronado, CA; commanding officer, Naval Special Warfare Group ONE, Logistics Support Unit, Coronado, CA.

His shore assignments include common systems avionics branch head, aide to the Commander, aviation launch and recovery equipment team lead, Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Weapon Systems Support, Philadelphia, PA; regional fuel director, NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center (FLC), Yokosuka, Japan; LT shore / overseas detailer, LT operational/Post Graduate School detailer and pit boss / LCDR detailer, Supply Corps Office of Personnel, Navy Personnel Command, Millington, TN; fuel director, NAVSUP FLC, Pearl Harbor, HI; operations deputy director, Joint Task Force Red Hill, Pearl Harbor, HI; and director, plans and operations (SUP 043), NAVSUP Headquarters, Mechanicsburg, PA.

Captain Bossi is a qualified Navy Expeditionary Supply Corps Officer and Surface Warfare Supply Corps Officer and a member of the Acquisition Professional Community. His awards include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal (four awards), Joint Commendation Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (two awards), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (two awards), Afghanistan Campaign Medal and various other unit and personal decorations.


CMDCM Mark R. Schlosser

Command Master Chief, Naval Supply Systems Command

Command Master Chief Mark R. Schlosser is a native of Vashon, Washington. A graduate of Hawai`i Pacific University, he holds an associate's degree in Business Management. He is a dean's list graduate of the Navy's Senior Enlisted Academy (Class 183/Gold) and Command Master Chief/Chief of the Boat course in 2014.
 
Schlosser entered the Recruit Training Command, San Diego, California, in August 1993 and began his career as an undesignated seaman, reporting to the USS Elliot (DD 967), where he deployed to the Middle East in support of Operation Desert Shield.
 
Subsequent sea assignments include custodian of postal effects, USS Simon Lake (AS 33); Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom support while serving with USS Emory S. Land (AS 39) and USS Enterprise (CVN 65); logistics leading chief petty officer, USS Makin Island (LHD 8); and command master chief, USS Donald Cook (DDG 75), where he conducted five Forward Deployed Naval Forces-Europe patrols supporting Ballistic Missile Defense operations in the Mediterranean, Black Sea, and Baltics.
 
Shore tours include command master chief, Naval Base Kitsap; command master chief, Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Sigonella; senior enlisted leader, Naval Support Facility Thurmont; Fleet Postal advisor, Commander, Pacific Fleet, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; and postal officer, Naval Support Activity La Maddalena, Italy.
 
Schlosser is Surface Warfare and Aviation Warfare qualified. His personal awards and decorations include Meritorious Service Medal (three awards), Navy Commendation Medal (two awards), Joint Service Achievement Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (three awards), and various other campaign and service awards.

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