MILLINGTON, Tenn. – Rockford, Michigan native and Navy sailor, Jenny Frasco earned promotion to Navy lieutenant commander at Naval Medical Logistics Command (NMLC), May 1.
Frasco views this promotion as an opportunity.
“It's an opportunity to bring out of the box thinking, creative concepts and ambitions in order to influence change,” said Frasco. “It means the Navy has found value in what I am able to contribute and has expectations for my continued improvement as an active and contributing member of the naval service. It means I am the first female in my family to achieve this rank, but not the first in a long rich linage of patriots to serve.”
Frasco has served in the Navy for eight years, and contributes to NMLC’s mission to deliver patient-centered logistics solutions for military medicine. The commands vision states they will become the premier medical logistic support activity for the Department of Defense.
Frasco's job role is currently the supervisor for assemblage management.
“I have oversight of two senior civilian and one junior civilian employees as well as oversight of one chief and two first class sailors,” said Frasco. “Our team is responsible for the administrative management of all Fleet assemblages to ensure our sailors have the right medical materiel, in the right quantities for the right function. We represent Fleet interests in various joint working groups and are continually working to keep medical gear at the tip of the spear.”
Knowing that her job makes a difference is Frasco's favorite part of her job.
“I love being part of the best logistics team in Navy medicine,” said Frasco. “The people I have the opportunity to serve motivate me to be better each day, to embrace opportunity and find better ways of accomplishing our task. I love we have opportunity to make change and to represent those changes that will impact the future.”
Frasco is a part of a long legacy of military service in the family.
Her father, Wayne Mead, and her spouse, Daniel Frasco, are Navy veterans. Her uncles, David Bogema, Stephen Beattie, and Neil Mead are Marine Corps veterans, along with her uncle Ronald Tripp who earned the Bronze Star in Vietnam. Her nephew, Nolan Frasco, is an Army veteran.
Ancestry records support service members in Civil War, War 1812 and the Revolution. She is a registered member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Her Father and Mother, Susan (Starr) Mead, are residents of Rockford.
Serving in the Navy has been a positive experience for Frasco.
“It has made me fully appreciate the value of diversity and what it really means to be a public servant,” she said. “I work to celebrate each and every day as an opportunity to serve. I have become more balanced and respectful of time and find value in the aspects of life we may overlook.”
She has two children: Benjamin Frasco, 20, of Sydney, Australia, and Janis Frasco of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.