If your company hires near Richmond, Virginia, you sit next to one of the best logistics talent pipelines in the country. Fort Gregg-Adams (formerly Fort Lee) is the Army's home of sustainment. It sits just south of Richmond in the Petersburg and Tri-Cities area. Every year, thousands of soldiers train and separate here. Many of them already do the exact work your warehouse, fleet, or supply chain needs.

This is a guide for the hiring side. You run a midsize company in the Richmond region. You need warehouse leads, inventory controllers, dispatchers, fleet techs, or fuel handlers. You do not have a big veteran-hiring program. You do not need one. You need to know who is coming off this post, what they actually did, and how to reach them before they scatter into the job market.

I will keep this simple. We will cover what trains here, how military logistics maps to civilian supply chain roles, how to read a military resume without getting lost in jargon, and how to source these people before their separation date.

Why Is Fort Gregg-Adams a Logistics Talent Goldmine?

Fort Gregg-Adams is the Combined Arms Support Command, also called CASCOM. The Army calls it the Sustainment Center of Excellence. In plain terms, this is where the Army teaches soldiers how to move, store, fuel, fix, and feed an entire force.

The post trains more than 119,000 students a year across hundreds of courses. That training runs through several schools on one installation:

You will see the name Fort Lee on some maps and signs. The Army renamed the post twice. It was Fort Lee, then Fort Gregg-Adams in 2023, then restored to Fort Lee again in June 2025. The new Fort Lee honors Pvt. Fitz Lee, a Buffalo Soldier and Medal of Honor recipient from nearby Dinwiddie County. The name keeps shifting. The talent does not. The same logistics schools run there no matter what the sign says.

For a Richmond employer, this is a gift. You do not have to teach supply chain basics from scratch. The Army already did. You can read more in the Army's CASCOM overview if you want the full picture of what the post does.

What Civilian Roles Does This Talent Map To?

Soldiers leaving Fort Gregg-Adams are not just "logistics people." Each job code maps to specific civilian work. Here is how the main ones translate.

Three job codes show up most for Richmond-area employers. An Automated Logistical Specialist (92A) runs inventory and supply systems. A Unit Supply Specialist (92Y) manages stock, equipment, and accountability. A Transportation Management Coordinator (88N) plans and tracks freight movement. Those three alone can fill most of a warehouse or distribution org chart.

For the wider view of how these skills line up with civilian jobs, see our pillar guide on hiring veterans for logistics and supply chain roles.

How Do You Read a Military Logistics Resume?

Here is where most employers stall. A soldier's resume is full of codes and unit names. You see "92A20" and "BN S4" and you do not know what to do with it. So you pass. That is a mistake. You just need to translate.

The work is real. The words are military. Your job is to look past the wrapper and read the function. Here is the same person, written two ways.

That candidate is not a long shot. That candidate is a trained inventory manager with a clean record. The only reason you might skip them is the language. So fix the language problem on your end. Read for the function, not the acronym.

Our guide on how to recognize maintenance and reliability experience in veterans walks through more of these translations for shop and fleet roles.

Why Does Keyword Screening Hurt You Here?

Most companies run resumes through an applicant tracking system. That system racks and stacks resumes by keyword match. It does not reject people. It ranks them. A weak keyword match sinks to the bottom of the list. You never see it.

That is the trap with military talent. A 92A wrote "automated logistical specialist" on the resume. Your job posting says "inventory control supervisor." The system does not connect the two. So a perfect candidate ranks near the bottom, and you never look.

The point is not that the system is broken. The point is that you have to meet military resumes halfway. Search the way they wrote it and the way you would write it. Both at once.

When Should You Source These Candidates?

Timing is everything with this post. Soldiers separating from Fort Gregg-Adams plan their exit months in advance. If you wait until they are on the open market, you are late. You are now competing with every other Richmond employer for the same people.

The smart move is to source before the separation date. Build the relationship while they are still in uniform. By the time they take off the uniform, they already know your company.

Our full playbook on this is in sourcing veterans before their separation date. The earlier you start, the less you compete.

How Does SkillBridge Work for a Midsize Employer?

SkillBridge lets a service member work at your company during their last few months of service. The military keeps paying their salary. You get a real tryout at no payroll cost. You can read the rules on the official DoD SkillBridge site.

One thing to keep straight. SkillBridge is a tryout, not a hire. The soldier stays on military pay during the program. You only extend a real job offer after they separate. Treat it as a long working interview. If the fit is right, you make the offer when they are free to take it.

What Mistakes Cost Richmond Employers This Talent?

I have watched companies sit right next to this pipeline and still miss it. The same few mistakes show up over and over. Here are the ones that cost you the most.

Posting a job and waiting is the most common one. A job board puts your role in front of people who happen to be looking that week. It does not reach the 92A who separates in four months and lives ten miles from your dock. For that, you have to go find them. We cover the trucking and fleet side of this in our guide on hiring veterans for fleet maintenance management.

The pay piece matters too. A separating sergeant has a clear sense of their worth. If you do not know how military rank maps to a civilian pay band, you can lowball a strong candidate by accident. Our guide on military pay grade to civilian comp band gives you a starting frame.

How Big Is The Local Veteran Hiring Market?

Virginia is one of the most veteran-dense states in the country. The Richmond region alone holds tens of thousands of veterans. Add the steady flow off Fort Gregg-Adams each year and you have a deep, renewing pool.

Veterans also hold their own in the job market. National data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the veteran unemployment rate sits below the rate for non-veterans. These are people who show up and get hired. You can check the current figures on the BLS veterans employment report.

For the Richmond area specifically, two industries pull hard on this talent. Logistics and distribution sit along the I-95 corridor. Cold chain and food distribution run through the region too. If you operate in either, the fit is clean. Our guide on hiring veterans for cold chain and refrigerated logistics goes deeper on that vertical. Port-side employers can also pull from this pool, covered in our port operations hiring guide.

The geography helps you too. Fort Gregg-Adams sits in the Tri-Cities area near Petersburg, Hopewell, and Colonial Heights. Richmond is a short drive north on I-95. So the soldier who trained on supply systems at the post often wants to stay in the area. They have a house, a school for the kids, and roots. That means lower flight risk for you. A local hire who plans to stay beats a relocation gamble.

There is one more reason this pool fits midsize firms. Big companies fight over the same handful of senior leaders. The bulk of who separates here is mid-level. Think sergeants who ran a warehouse, a motor pool, or a fuel point. That is the supervisor layer most midsize operations are short on. You get a tested team lead without paying a senior premium.

This is not the only Army post worth building a pipeline around. If your company also hires in other regions, the same playbook works at posts like Fort Leavenworth, covered in our guide on hiring veterans near Fort Leavenworth.

How Can BMR Help You Reach This Talent?

Best Military Resume is a veteran talent platform. Veterans and military spouses build their resumes on it. That gives you a pool of candidates who have already translated their military work into civilian terms.

The pool grows fast. We add more than 1,000 new veteran profiles every month. More than 60,000 resumes have been built on the platform. Many of those come from logistics and supply roles, which is exactly the talent that flows off Fort Gregg-Adams.

If you hire near Richmond and need logistics, warehouse, fleet, or supply talent, reach out through our hire page. We can connect you with veteran candidates who match the roles you are filling. If you want a longer-term sourcing relationship, our partner page is the place to start. Recruiters can also work directly through our recruiter page.