DLA News Archive

Category: Warfighter Always, Global Posture, Strong Partnerships, Whole of Government, Always Accountable

A warehouse worker prepares kitchen equipment for movement.

Feb. 19, 2021

Puerto Rico school rebuilds with surplus property

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A small K-12 academy in the island territory looked to the states and federal government for vehicles and equipment after Hurricane Maria losses.

Teresa Cowell operates a rough terrain container handler to move a container that arrived Jan. 27 at the Battle Creek Michigan Air National Guard Base.

Feb. 15, 2021

Battle Creek team helps equip Central operations

BATTLE CREEK, Michigan — Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services employees at global sites often count on colleagues in Battle Creek, Michigan, to ensure essential equipment they need like the team who helps keep the specialized equipment site staffs rely on getting to where it is needed.

Feb. 11, 2021

One-time sale benefits DLA, Portuguese

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A thousand pieces of furniture were recently removed from remote Lajes Field facilities in the Azores, saving taxpayers from substantial disposal costs.

A woman sits at a desk surrounded by other desks and computers with TV monitors in the background.

Jan. 29, 2021

ASOC, COVID-19 Task Force fortified with reservists

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — At the nexus of mission readiness and enterprise sustainment, the Defense Logistics Agency’s Agency Synchronization Operations Center operationalizes logistical support to the warfighter and federal partners conducting missions around the globe.

Jan. 26, 2021

Anchorage property disposal site featured in recent local television segment

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Television station KTUU’s “Inside the Gates” regularly focuses its camera on happenings at Alaska’s Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. On Jan. 21, its focus fell on DLA Disposition Services.

An MRAP with bullet marks and flat front tires is parked on a residential street.

Jan. 22, 2021

Former military vehicles shield police during Ohio shootout

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Armored personnel carriers received through DLA’s Law Enforcement Support Office kept officers safe from a hail of bullets in Springfield Jan. 2.

A material handling machine unloads an item from a truck.

Dec. 17, 2020

E&A team continues support in Norway in 2020

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Despite pandemic restrictions and challenges, DLA Disposition Services Europe and Africa collected $8.5 million in retrograde equipment from Marine Corps NATO stores.

Nov. 30, 2020

Kuwait-based disposal representative named employee of quarter

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Honner Raul Carbajal-Sanchez was recently honored for his contributions to the agency’s property disposal operations in the Middle East.

Lines of cars wait at a drive-thru coronavirus testing site.

Nov. 27, 2020

Surplus military tents repurposed as coronavirus testing sites

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — New Jersey’s Union County is among DLA’s many excess-property recipients reusing former mobile shelters in their local fight against COVID-19.

Some of the 55 hospital exam tables acquired Sept. 23, 2020, by the U.S. Agency for International Development from Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, await shipment to join the fight against COVID-19.

Nov. 9, 2020

Excess property continues to aid fight against pandemic

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Forces battling the pandemic have much to be thankful for this year as Defense Logistics Agency employees at DLA Disposition Services locations across the country have transferred almost $36.8 million worth of excess military items to service members and first responders working to stop the coronavirus spread and help those already afflicted.