Joint Contracting commander visits Umm Qasr operations

By SGT David Scott (USF-I, DCG A&T PAO)September 11, 2010

Joint Contracting commander visits Umm Qasr operations
1 / 5 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Rear Admiral Jeffrey "Scott" Jones, former Coalition Naval Advisory Training Team Director (left), Rear Admiral Kelvin N. Dixon, new Coalition Naval Advisory Training Team Director (center), meet with Brigadier General Camille M. Nichols, Commanding ... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Joint Contracting commander visits Umm Qasr operations
2 / 5 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Rear Admiral Jeffrey "Scott" Jones, former Coalition Naval Advisory Training Team Director (left), Rear Admiral Kelvin N. Dixon, new Coalition Naval Advisory Training Team Director (center), meet with Brigadier General Camille M. Nichols, Commanding ... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Joint Contracting commander visits Umm Qasr operations
3 / 5 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Rear Admiral Jeffrey "Scott" Jones, former Coalition Naval Advisory Training Team Director (left), Brigadier General Camille M. Nichols, Commanding General, Joint Contracting Command, United States Forces - Iraq (center), and Rear Admiral Kelvin N. D... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Joint Contracting commander visits Umm Qasr operations
4 / 5 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Rear Admiral Jeffrey "Scott" Jones, former Coalition Naval Advisory Training Team Director left), Brigadier General Camille M. Nichols, Commanding General, Joint Contracting Command, United States Forces - Iraq(center), and Rear Admiral Kelvin N. Dix... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Joint Contracting commander visits Umm Qasr operations
5 / 5 Show Caption + Hide Caption – At the conclusion of her tour of the camp, Brigadier General Camille M. Nichols, Commanding General, Joint Contracting Command, United States Forces - Iraq (center), received a briefing regarding the expansion plans for the physical footprint of ITAM... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL

BAGHDAD - The commanding general of Joint Contracting Command, United States Forces - Iraq, visited with the combined forces of the Coalition Naval and Advisory Training Team at Umm Qasr Sept. 7 to witness the latest progress at Iraq's southernmost port.

Brig. Gen. Camille M. Nichols toured Iraq Training and Advisory Mission-Navy's Umm Qasr operations and facilities and attended a briefing on new developments planned by former CNATT Director, Rear Adm. Scott Jones and current CNATT Director, Rear Adm. Kelvin N. Dixon.

The visit marked Nichols' first trip to Umm Qasr in her current posting with USF-I.

In September 2008, Nichols become the first commander of the U.S. Army Expeditionary Contracting Command, a subordinate command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command, and was appointed to her current command October 30, 2009.

In partnership with the government of Iraq, the DCG (A&T) develops professional Iraqi security ministries, institutions and forces that are capable of maintaining internal security and defending against external threats.