DLA News Archive

Category: Warfighter Always

May 28, 2024

DLA Distribution commander delivers remarks during New Cumberland Memorial Day event

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Navy Rear Adm. Grafton D. Chase, commander, Defense Logistics Agency Distribution, spoke as part of the 2024 New Cumberland Memorial Day event, May 27. These are his remarks as prepared.

May 17, 2024

Expeditionary teams close out DEFENDER ’24 field ops

GERMERSHEIM, Germany — Agency expeditionary civilians and servicemembers share perspectives on exercise accomplishments, their teams, and visiting Germany during the largest U.S. Army-led exercise in Europe.

A shredder spits out wood fragments while personnel in safety gear observe.

May 10, 2024

DEFENDER '24 hones expeditionary skill sets

GERMERSHEIM, Germany — A collection of DLA Disposition Services expeditionary civilians and DLA Joint Reserve Force servicemembers have assembled a solid team and are developing skills together during a field exercise in Germersheim, Germany.

People erect the walls of a shipping container that turns into an office space.

April 29, 2024

Disposition personnel to support DEFENDER 2024

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Agency property disposal experts and servicemembers will soon travel to Germany to deploy and operate an Expeditionary Site Set in support of the U.S. Army’s largest exercise in Europe.

A man in a dark suit stands on the left side of a wall print of the earth and a man in a military camo uniform stands on the right side of the print.

April 12, 2024

Print Procurement Specialist delivers in Colorado

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Military units that require printing solutions reach out to Ben Funkhouser, a seasoned procurement specialist for Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services-Document Services site at Fort Carson, Colorado.

Feb. 20, 2024

(A new) Home on the range: JRTC

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The creative application of DLA’s used equipment stocks is allowing Army brigades training in Louisiana to maneuver in ways they never have before.

Feb. 8, 2024

(A new) Home on the range: NTC Fort Irwin

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Far out in the desert, artillery booms across the ever-shifting sands, punishing DLA-sourced used vehicles, while soldiers sweep through fabricated towns brought to life by actors and set dressed with reused military equipment.

Feb. 6, 2024

Excess equipment to help build special operations capability

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A Kaiserslautern-based property disposal specialist recently went the extra mile to transfer a valuable fabricating system from Germany to a stateside customer with an important mission.

Vehicles to be used as targets lined up in the desert.

Jan. 30, 2024

(A new) Home on the range: NTTR

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Vehicles, equipment and materials sourced from DLA’s surplus equipment stocks provide a crucial element in the realistic training and preparation of America’s combat pilots at the sprawling Nevada Test and Training Range.

Blue Banner with the letters DSO in white under a shield with hammer and wrench crossed on it.

Jan. 20, 2024

DLA Document Services reflects on 30 years of online printing

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Technology has dramatically changed since the launch of Defense Logistics Agency Document Services’ first client-server ordering application, “Doc Access,” in late 1993. But that one-time cutting-edge concept eventually led to today’s cloud web-based Document Services Online.