Battleship Missouri presents backdrop for 599th change of command.(New commanders at MTMC's 599th, 597th groups ...) From: Translog | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: Kojima, Terri | COPYRIGHT 2003 U.S. Military Traffic Management Command. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

A veteran transportation officer has returned to a MTMC assignment in style as the new commander of the 599th Transportation Group.

Lt. Col. Thomas Harvey, a past commander of the group's 837th Transportation Battalion, Pusan, Korea, accepted command aboard the Battleship Missouri, currently moored in Pearl Harbor. The vintage vessel was the site of the unconditional surrender of Japan in World War II.

Harvey said he looked forward to the assignment in a regio...