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Guest speaker David McKernan offers tips and advice on making an emergency plan during the National Preparedness Month closing ceremony at the McNamara Headquarters Complex Sept. 29. McKernan serves as the operations manager for the Fairfax County Office of Emergency Management in Virginia.

Oct. 1, 2015

‘Be Strong, Be Prepared, Be Ready’ takeaway of National Preparedness Month

Fort Belvoir, Virginia — Being prepared for a disaster involves making an emergency plan and knowing how to execute it when and if a disaster strikes, the emergency management coordinator for Fairfax County, Virginia, said Sept. 29 during the National Preparedness Month closing ceremony at the McNamara Headquarters Complex.

DLA Land and Maritime is working with service logisticians to expand support for land-based heavy bombers, many of which need modernization and haven’t been exercised in a nuclear capacity for years.

Oct. 1, 2015

Revitalizing Support to the Nuclear Enterprise

Fort Belvoir, Virginia — Having a nuclear arsenal at the ready is a key part of America’s national security strategy, and maintaining the health of those weapons systems is a growing concern for the Defense Logistics Agency.

Air Force Senior Airman John Myer pushes a tow bar under the tire of a B-52H Stratofortress at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.

Oct. 1, 2015

Critical Partnerships

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime are strengthening their partnerships with customers involved in the nuclear mission.

Air Force Staff Sgt. Chris Misenheimer, a nuclear weapons technician, performs routine maintenance on a rotary launcher at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. DLA’s past support focused on the Defense Department’s nuclear enterprise shooters. The agency has recently expanded its support to the enterprise’s transport and support system functions as well.

Oct. 1, 2015

Synchronizing Support

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — The Nuclear Enterprise Support Office was created to allow DLA to synchronize its efforts for the nuclear enterprise.

The Cold War Nuclear Triad has evolved to a more “capabilities-based” posture to deal with multiple aggressors across a spectrum of contingencies.

Oct. 1, 2015

History Highlights: The Nuclear Triad

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — History of the Nuclear Triad

A ‘Pets for Vets’ employee, Jackson (the Retreiver) decides to visit with Defense Logistics Agency Aviation’s Marc Miller, a supply systems analyst for Business Process Support Directorate, as Miller visits at the Shelter in a Box table during the Combined Federal Campaign kick-off event held Sept. 23, 2015 in the Frank B. Lotts Conference Center, Richmond, Virginia.

Oct. 1, 2015

DSCR kicks off 2015 CFC campaign

RICHMOND, Va. — Defense Supply Center Richmond employees kicked off their annual Combined Federal Campaign Sept. 23 in the Frank B. Lotts Conference Center. The campaign runs through Dec. 15 and this year’s campaign theme is “Serving our Country, Supporting our Community.”

Navy Lt. Jill Corrales, retail manager at Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Cherry Point, N.C., has received the Company Grade Officer of the Quarter award for third quarter, fiscal year 2015.

Sept. 29, 2015

Cherry Point’s Corrales awarded DLA Distribution Company Grade Officer of the Quarter

CHERRY POINT, North Carolina — Navy Lt. Jill Corrales, retail manager at Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Cherry Point, N.C., has received the Company Grade Officer of the Quarter award for third quarter, fiscal year 2015, for working closely with the Fleet Readiness Center-East, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing and other units onboard Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point to support the warfighter and ensure combat readiness.

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brett Sandman, director of DLA Distribution Norfolk, Va., at New London, Conn., has been awarded the Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Field Grade Officer of the Quarter award for third quarter, fiscal year 2015.

Sept. 28, 2015

Norfolk’s Sandman awarded DLA Distribution’s Field Grade Officer of the Quarter

NORFOLK, Virginia — Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brett Sandman, director of DLA Distribution Norfolk, Va., at New London, Conn., has been awarded the Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Field Grade Officer of the Quarter award for third quarter, fiscal year 2015.

In celebration of the 68th Air Force Birthday, DLA Aviation Commander Brig. Gen. Allan Day and the most junior DLA Aviation Airman in attendance, Staff Sgt Jimmy Pauth, inventory management specialist, Customer Operations Directorate, cut the Air Force birthday cake during a celebration September 21, 2015 at Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.

Sept. 25, 2015

DSCR celebrates Air Force's 68th birthday

RICHMOND, Va. — On Sept. 21, the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation Air Force hosted the 68th Birthday celebration in the Frank B. Lotts Conference Center. The Employee Working Group who sponsors Warrior Wednesday, partnered with DLA Aviation Air Force team members to show continued support to our nation's warfighters and to build esprit de corps throughout the installation. In recognition and celebration of the event, employees wore Air Force blue that day.

Sherre Mitten-Bell (left in gray), DLA Distribution Susquehanna public affairs officer, shows DLA Troop Support Industrial Hardware employees, the “pick and pack” area at the warehouse facility in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania during a visit Sept. 16. DLA IH employees visited the warehouse to get a better understanding of the process of getting material to the warfighter once the contract is awarded.

Sept. 25, 2015

IH employees get the bigger picture during DLA Distribution visit

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pennsylvania — Seeing the process of how repair parts go from contract award to the hands of the warfighter was the goal of a visit Sept. 15 to a DLA Distribution warehouse.