DLA News Archive

Category: Resiliency, People and Culture, SAPR

Feb. 25, 2021

Barstow site lead honored for 1st quarter performance

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Heath Buswell was recently named DLA Disposition Services Employee of the Quarter.

Dennis Keener, one of the 116 team members honored, operates a forklift to unload a Hummer turned into the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services at Red River, Texas, Feb. 25, 2020

Feb. 8, 2021

Mid-America team honored with agency award

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — Defense Logistics Agency employees from DLA Disposition Services’ Mid-America region were among the personnel honored in the DLA Director's Strategic Goals Award for the 4th Quarter of fiscal 2020.

Mark Aicher wearing blue shirt with trees in the background overlaid on a navy blue backdrop

Feb. 1, 2021

Leadership Spotlight: Mark Aicher

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Get to know Mark Aicher, DLA Disposition Services director of business support.

ec. Jean-Rene Louis, a nutrition case specialist in the Department of Nutrition chooses a beverage to go with his meal in the Brooke Army Medical Center dining facility, Dec. 8, 2020. Staff at BAMC’s Nutrition Department encourage everyone to focus on eating healthy during the holiday season and throughout the year. (U.S. Army photo by Daniel Calderón)

Jan. 29, 2021

Online class encourages healthier choices in 2021

BATTLE CREEK, Michigan — Making healthier choices is a common resolution to start a new year, and the Battle Creek Morale, Welfare and Recreation Program offered help Jan. 26 with a virtual class to encourage wiser choices in our diets.

November DLA Aviation Leadership Award Winner

Jan. 25, 2021

Darrin Clark honored for transformative leadership with November Aviation Leadership Award

Richmond, Va. — One of the four dimensions of transformative leadership recognized with the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation Leadership Award is inspirational motivation. Materiel Management Branch Chief Darrin Clark of DLA Aviation at San Diego is a man who embodies this trait through and through.

Steve Wilson, the new Pathways to Career Excellence Program manager for DLA Disposition Services, gets to work on developing future leaders.

Jan. 24, 2021

Former military officer now molds future civilian leaders

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Among the challenges of the pandemic is offering personnel development program for new trainees that goes beyond classrooms for on-the-job assignments, cross-training and rotational opportunities, but such is the job of the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services’ new Pathways to Career Excellence Program Manager Steve Wilson.

A large shearer tears apart a giant airframe in the snow.

Jan. 4, 2021

North-East personnel overcome adversity, tackle diverse mission set in 2020

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — While operating in some of the areas hardest hit during early stages of the global pandemic, region staff personally and professionally supported COVID-19 response efforts while still helping meet major military property removal needs.

Jan. 1, 2021

Leadership Spotlight: Faron Cordrey

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Get to know Faron Cordrey, DLA Disposition Services Pacific director.

Defense Logistics Agency personnel take to the night to clear containers from a receiving and shipping point on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.

Dec. 28, 2020

Central team “makes mission happen” in 2020

CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait — Serving alongside warfighters in forward areas can be challenging enough, but changes in military operations and safeguarding personnel during a pandemic added extra hurdles during 2020 for Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services personnel in the Central region.

Domon Barr stands with two Lebanon VA Medical Center employees while dropping off donations for the Lebanon VA facility.

December 17, 2020 Dec. 18, 2020

Distribution’s Barr delivers holiday donations to Lebanon VA Medical Center

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Defense Logistics Agency Distribution’s Domon Barr, a supply management specialist with the Material Management Division, delivered holiday donations to the Lebanon Veterans Administration Medical Center Dec. 11.