Los Angeles native Chief Warrant Officer 2 Pedro Alvarado

Los Angeles native Chief Warrant Officer 2 Pedro Alvarado (left), retrosort yard accountability officer, attached to the 82nd Sustainment Brigade-U.S. Central Command Materiel Recovery Element, explains to Frank Kendall, U.S. undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, how the 82nd SB-CMRE gets equipment and supplies from its retrosort yards back into the U.S. military inventory during Kendall’s visit to Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Feb. 9. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jon Cupp, 82nd SB-CMRE Public Affairs)