DLA News Archive

Tag: Construction & Equipment

Shawn J. Jones, a public affairs specialist with Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, is pictured at the Combined Air and Space Operations Center, Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, during a deployment to Southwest Asia as an Air Force staff sergeant in 2008. He served on U.S. Air Force Central Command's news team, reporting from Iraq, Kuwait, Djibouti, Kenya and Qatar.

Oct. 27, 2016

PHILADELPHIA — Shawn J. Jones is in his second week in DLA Troop Support's Corporate Communications office. While he's just beginning his DLA career, he's been with DLA for almost two decades.

A South Carolina National Guard’s CH-47F Chinook helicopter assigned lands at the Whale Branch Early College High School and delivers water and food supplies to the community of Seabrook in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew Oct. 9. DLA Troop Support provided meals for 6,000 Marine recruits who were evacuated before the storm from Paris Island, South Carolina to Albany, Georgia. Hurricane Matthew peaked as a Category 4 hurricane in the Caribbean and hit the S.C. coast on Oct. 7.

Oct. 13, 2016

Troop Support provides food, helipad materials for Hurricane Matthew relief

PHILADELPHIA — As the Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort deployed to support Hurricane Matthew relief efforts, it did so with a timely re-supply of food by DLA. “DLA Troop Support is uniquely positioned to respond to crises like Hurricane Matthew at a moment’s notice with world class logistics,” said Victor Harmon, DLA Troop Support Customer Operations.

Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician 3rd Class Erik Kastner, assigned to EOD Mobile Unit 6, helps a student from the Civic Leadership Institute of Hampton Roads don an EOD Mark 9 bomb suit during a tour April 21 at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, Virginia. DLA Troop Support provides equipment to EOD customers through its Construction and Equipment supply chain.

May 6, 2016

Troop Support supports EOD mission as national observance nears

PHILADELPHIA — National Explosive Ordnance Disposal Day is observed annually on the first Saturday of May to honor the professionals that put their lives on the line to defuse, disarm or contain bombs and other explosive devices. DLA Troop Support provides much of the equipment that military EOD units demand.

Navy Lt. j.g. Michael Aragon, assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 11, removes blasting caps from a detonation cord while dressed in a bomb suit during a training exercise in Bahrain in November 2012. DLA Troop Support provides equipment to Navy EOD customers through its Special Operations tailored logistics support program

June 23, 2015

C&E employee receives award during Navy EOD customer visit

PHILADELPHIA — Three DLA Troop Support employees recently saw how their work impacts the explosive ordnance disposal customers they support.

A firefighter from the Albuquerque Fire Department’s Wildland Task Force is shown here. DLA Troop Support took over management of 296 wildland fire items from the General Services Administration in May 2014.

Feb. 26, 2015

DLA Troop Support delivers during its first wildland fire season

PHILADAELPHIA — On the eve of the 2014 wildland fire season, warehouse shelves at the Northern California Interagency Support Cache were packed with goggles, hand tools and hoses. More than $7 million worth of materials were stocked as a buffer as DLA took over management of those items one month before the season started.