DLA hopes to win back Marine cammie business.

• Author: Book, Elizabeth G.
• Position: Washington Pulse - Brief Article

Last year, the Marines decided to buy their new camouflage battle garments, called "cammies," on their own, rather than go through the Defense Logistics Agency They claimed that DLA's markup was too high.

But DLA still is hoping to work out a deal with the Marines, said Maj. Gen. Hawthorne L. Proctor, the agency's director of logistics operations.

"The Marines decided to walk when we could not make a deal," he told a recent conference of the Association of the U.S. Army DLA could nor lower the price, because it had to recover its overhead costs, explained Proctor. "The commandant decided that the price of the cammies was too high and they could do better outside DLA." However, he added, "not all is lost."

The Marines, he said, are "finding that it's not as easy as...