DeCA boss announces retirement as major commissary changes near

As the commissary benefit begins to undergo fundamental changes, the director of the Defense Commissary Agency has announced his retirement.

Joseph H. Jeu said Thursday that he will step down June 3 after nearly 40 years of federal service, which began in 1978 as a commissary specialist with the U.S. Army Troop Support Agency’s European Region. He also worked for the Marine Corps and the General Services Administration.

Jeu oversees more than 15,000 federal workers at DeCA, which operates 238 commissaries in 13 countries.

“Jeu has guided the agency through an enormous and challenging transformation; set an aggressive strategic direction to ensure the relevance of the commissary benefit for generations to come and provided direction and oversight for the modernization of DeCA’s supply chain management systems,” officials stated in a news release announcing the move.

In the same release, Jeu said the transformation in question "is well on its way and the right people are in place to see it through. It’s time for me to leave it in their capable hands.”

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