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DLA Logistics Operations Director Navy Rear Adm. Vincent Griffith addresses representatives from more than 90 small and large businesses Aug. 30 during the DLA Land and Maritime Supplier Conference and Expo in Columbus, Ohio.

Aug. 30, 2016

DLA, defense industry collaborate on maximizing warfighter readiness

COLUMBUS, Ohio — DLA keeps its promise to support warfighters around the world because of America’s defense industrial base, DLA Logistics Operations Director Navy Rear Adm. Vincent Griffith said Aug. 30 during the DLA Land and Maritime Supplier Conference and Expo in Columbus, Ohio.

The DLA Aviation Customer Operations Directorate's weapons systems program managers, at Richmond, Virginia, strive to keep the H-53 type model series helicopter fleet maintained and up to 100 percent mission ready. The U.S. Navy's MH-53 Sea Dragon is shown performing mine countermeasures using the MK-105 tow sled during operations while demonstrating the U.S. Navy's ability to defend against mine-laying operations and ensure open access to sea lanes.

Aug. 30, 2016

Aviation’s WSPM team keeps Navy’s MH-53 flying

RICHMOND, Virginia — The U. S. Navy’s MH-53E Sea Dragon became operational in 1986 and is the only heavy-lift helicopter in Naval Aviation. Defense Logistics Agency Aviation’s Navy Customer Facing Division in the Customer Operations Directorate in Richmond, Virginia, is part of the team helping keep the MH-53 helicopter mission ready.

Members of the Maintenance Shop team pose with their working DeWalt drill. The drill won first place in DLA Installation Support at Susquehanna’s “CANstruction” challenge, benefitting the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank through the 2016 Feds Feed Families Food campaign.

Aug. 30, 2016

DLA Installation Support at Susquehanna generates donations for Feds Feeds Families campaign with “CANstruction” challenge

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pennsylvania — To energize its employees about the 2016 Feds Feed Families campaign and increase donations, DLA Installation Support at Susquehanna devised a challenge for the team to put its creativity- and generosity- to the test.

Federal employees must abide by the rules of the Hatch Act in their communications.

Aug. 30, 2016

The Hatch Act and you: Social media Q&A with DLA OGC

The use of social media is an area where it can be easy for a federal employee to violate the rule if not careful. Here an attorney from DLA’s Office of General Counsel answers questions about various uses of new media.

Students in the Advanced Study of Air Mobility Program from USAF Expeditionary Center, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. receive a tour of DoD’s largest warehouse from United States Army Lt. Col. Jacob Freeman.

Aug. 29, 2016

Air Mobility students learn Distribution, tour DoD’s largest warehouse

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pennsylvania — On Aug. 24, students in the Advanced Study of Air Mobility Program from United States Air Force Expeditionary Center, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., stopped by DLA Distribution headquarters in New Cumberland, Pa., to learn how the organization operates 25 distribution centers globally, before touring the Department of Defense’s largest warehouse at DLA Distribution Susquehanna.

The three-minute video offers a glimpse of just one way DLA supports the warfighter every day.

Aug. 29, 2016

DLA support praised by logisticians from Army global-response aviation unit in new video

RICHMOND, Va. — A new video in the Defense Logistics Agency’s “Logistics On Location” series highlights the support DLA Aviation personnel provide the Army’s 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Lt. Col. Douglas Etter, an Army National Guard chaplain, speaks to Troop Support employees to help them better understand PTSD during a workshop Aug. 25.

Aug. 29, 2016

Chaplain talks life after combat during PTSD workshop

PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania Army National Guard chaplain spoke to Troop Support employees to help them better understand PTSD during a workshop Aug. 25. “I think everyone who has been to combat comes back different,” said Lt. Col. Douglas Etter.

Customer Interaction Center agents like Amanda Duckworth help DLA customers get answers to questions on supply and transportation issues ranging from online ordering to delivery statuses

Aug. 28, 2016

More than a Help Desk

Fort Belvoir, VA — DLA’s Customer Interaction Center at Battle Creek, Michigan, takes up to 1,600 contacts a day to help customers place orders, check delivery status and more.

Part of the 1,484 pallet shipment of water vendors delivered to Torun, Poland, during the exercise.

Aug. 28, 2016

Crushing It in Europe

Fort Belvoir, VA — A multinational exercise in Poland hones DLA logisticians’ skills while working with other agencies and allied nations under high pressure.

Staff Sgt. Angel Tavarez (driving), a native of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, consolidates excess metal scraps from base closure operations for reuse on different bases or to sell to Afghan locals, in the evening hours on Forward Operating Base Walton, July 15, 2014. Tavarez serves with the 266th Ordnance Company, Army Reserves, attached to the Expeditionary Disposal Remediation Team, Defense Logistics Agency, Disposition Services.

Aug. 28, 2016

Battle Ready in Battle Creek and Beyond

Fort Belvoir, VA — DLA’s quick-reaction teams not only help set up port openings and obtain needed supplies for contingencies. They also do expeditionary disposition.