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Sept. 28, 2017

When disaster strikes, what’s in your home, hands and head?

PHILADELPHIA — When it comes to planning for disasters, the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Emergency Management encourages people to know what they should have in their homes, their hands and their heads.

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Sept. 28, 2017

TSP rules for hardship withdrawal relaxed for employees affected by recent natural disasters

The Thrift Savings Plan has made a temporary change to allow participants affected by Hurricane Harvey or Hurricane Irma to make hardship withdrawals under certain circumstances.

Air Force Staff Sgt. Trevor Black, a small package initial communications element technician with the 821st Contingency Response Support Squadron, checks wires on a satellite communication antenna.

Sept. 27, 2017

DoD Officials Provide Update on Hurricane Relief Efforts

WASHINGTON — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Department of Defense website — A Defense Department spokesman said that in Puerto Rico, enhanced communications and completed assessments are providing a clearer picture of the extent of the storm damage and the magnitude of the response challenge.

Sept. 27, 2017

Registering for the Culture Academy

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Here are the instructions for how to self-enroll in LMS for the Culture Academy.

Cots are unloaded at DLA Distribution Warner Robins, Ga., for storage until dispatched to a FEMA-designated location.

Sept. 27, 2017

Distribution Warner Robins aids cot storage and distribution mission in support of Hurricane Irma

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — When DLA Distribution Warner Robins, Georgia, received the call that the Georgia Army National Guard’s 277th Maintenance Company needed assistance receiving and storing cots slated for Hurricane Irma evacuees, the answer was a resounding yes.

Sept. 27, 2017

LDC SPEAKER EVENT: Colonel (Retired) Christopher L. Warner

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The presenter for the Leadership Development Council (LDC) speaker event for September is Colonel (Retired) Christopher Warner.

DLA employees are required annually to complete the COOP Employee Awareness Course, accessed in their Learning Management System account, to ensure mission essential functions will be performed in the event of a catastrophic event.

Sept. 26, 2017

COOP: Not just an annual training requirement

Richmond, Virginia — Defense Logistics Agency employees are required annually to complete the Continuity of Operations Employee Awareness Training to ensure mission essential functions will be performed in the event of a catastrophic event.

A sailor holds the hand of a hurricane victim during a helicopter ride.

Sept. 26, 2017

DoD, Partner Agencies Support Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands Hurricane Relief Efforts

WASHINGTON — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Department of Defense website — The Defense Department and partner agencies are supporting ongoing assessment and response operations in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, Pentagon spokesman Army Lt. Col. Jamie Davis said.

Sept. 26, 2017

DLA Land and Maritime Culture Academy Volunteers Needed!

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The DLA Land and Maritime Culture Academy 2017 is coming and we are in need of support.

Approximately 60-70 percent of the existing roof at DLA Distribution Corpus Christi’s administrative building is blown off and roof drains, intake vents and smoke hatches are damaged from Hurricane Harvey’s winds that swept across Naval Air Station Corpus Christi.

Sept. 26, 2017

DLA Distribution Corpus Christi, Texas Bounces Back from Hurricane Harvey

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Corpus Christi, Texas is bouncing back from wind damage sustained from Hurricane Harvey, a category-4 hurricane that formed in the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall in southeastern Texas with wind speeds of up to 130 miles per hour. In the days following the hurricane, rain added another element of destruction to the already damaged area.