The most vital part of any military organization is its people. At Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, a totally integrated workforce of military and civilian men and women strive together to accomplish the base's mission of supporting those crucial organizations that provide support to Marines around the world. From the administrative clerk to the equipment operator, from the budget clerk to the management analyst, from the mechanic to the musician—they all work as a team to reach the singular goal of being the best. These are the individuals who make MCLB Albany function, and in a real sense, they are the base.

Native American artifacts—some 200 to date—have been unearthed on base. The artifacts indicate that a Native American hunting camp once stood on the high ground at the east end of the base.

The discovery of these artifacts provides another link in the historical chain of Native American inhabitation of this part of Georgia. University of Georgia archaeologists believe that the flint knives, scrapers, drills, agricultural tools, arrowheads and spearheads found here date back some 8,000 to 10,000 years. These items are evidence that Native Americans also used the site where MCLB Albany is located as a center of resupply, or as a supply base. The artifacts were also used to place the Native American site here in the early Archaic or Paleo cultural periods.

Of special interest was a piece of black flint found at the site. Black flint comes from North Georgia, so it is thought that South Georgia Native Americans, through early trade, made this a very early example of commerce in the southeast. Trading is thought to have begun during the Archaic cultural period.

The base was commissioned on March 1, 1952, as the Marine Corps Depot of Supplies. Marine Brig. Gen. Raymond P. Coffman assumed command and a small contingent of Marines established headquarters in temporary buildings. Construction continued rapidly, and by early 1954, the station was sufficiently complete with warehouses and administration buildings to assume supply support for Marines east of the Rocky Mountains and in the Atlantic area.

On July 29, 1954, the command was renamed the Marine Corps Supply Center Albany (MCSC). The MCSC managed and controlled supplies at storage and issue locations in the eastern half of the United States, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. Depot level rebuild operations began at the base in October 1954. Today, one of MCLB Albany's most important tenant facilities is Maintenance Center Albany (MCA). The only other facility of this kind is located at MCLB Albany's sister installation, Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, Calif.

The MCSC Albany was redesignated Marine Corps Logistics Support Base Atlantic on April 1, 1976, because the Marine Corps Supply Activity at Philadelphia and its inventory control, financial management, procurement and technical support functions were relocated to the Albany installation. On Nov. 1, 1978, the installation was renamed Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany. The full spectrum of logistics support functions required to support the Marine Corps' ground weapon systems and equipment was now performed at this base.

On Jan. 17, 1990, the commandant of the Marine Corps designated the commanding general at MCLB Albany to also take on the responsibilities of commander, Marine Corps Logistics Command. The reorganization placed control of MCLB Albany, MCLB Barstow, Calif., and the Blount Island Command in Jacksonville, Fla., under this single commander.