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Family Services Program Manager Lisa Grenon prepares a care package for DLA Disposition Services personnel at Kandahar, Afghanistan.

July 15, 2020

Battle Creek, Michigan — Deploying thousands of miles from home to support the warfighter and the Defense Logistics Agency mission can be a test of one’s resiliency, but the Family Services program in Battle Creek, Michigan, tries to ease the stress by reaching out to deployed personnel and their families.

Dan Roberts demonstrates a plank exercise, which can easily transition into a pushup, burpee or vertical jump.

July 5, 2020

Virtual fitness challenge keeps patrons active

BATTLE CREEK, Michigan — Members of the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center workforce began an 8-week program July 1 to benefit their resiliency with some help from the Battle Creek Morale, Welfare and Recreation team.

June 25, 2020

Property, waste disposal effort grows in Poland

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Major exercises in Eastern Europe mean regular engagements for DLA Disposition Services personnel supporting rotational forces in Poland.

A civilian worker and an Army soldier stand and talk outside.

June 19, 2020

Army teams with DLA for property purge

BATTLE CREEK, Mich — Defense Logistics Agency employees in Hawaii recently partnered with the Army’s 25th Infantry Division based at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, to clean house during Operation Lightning Purge.

A heavy equipment operator uses shears to destroy one of the ten NATO bulk fuel carriers received at DLA Disposition Services' Kandahar site.

June 17, 2020

Agency aids NATO disposal needs

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Defense Logistics Agency personnel in Afghanistan not only support the equipment disposal needs for U.S. forces, but they also answer the call for NATO items.

Don Phillips, DLA Installation Support at Battle Creek site director, pulls a cart full of donated items into the Salvation Army facility.

June 15, 2020

Former staffer earns honors at top level school

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Before he became a distinguished graduate at the National Defense University, Don Phillips distinguished himself as a leader at the Defense Logistics Agency.

Members of the DLA Disposition Services team in Afghanistan take a moment to observe Memorial Day and remember fallen employee Krissie Davis killed during her 2015 deployment there.

June 12, 2020

Agency employees make every day a Flag Day

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Many Americans will continue a 104-year-old tradition June 14 when they celebrate Flag Day to show respect for the Star Spangled Banner, something Defense Logistics Agency employees do year round.

People and dogs make there way to a military cargo truck with flood waters near by.

June 10, 2020

Then and Now: A 2020 look into LESO

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Since its inception over 20 years ago, the Law Enforcement Support Office, more commonly referred to as the 1033 program, has provided various kinds of excess Department of Defense property to law enforcement agencies across the country. Throughout its history, numerous questions have been asked: where did the program originate, what is the purpose, who is eligible to participate and how does it work?

Army Lt. Col. Ryan Mendenhall, officer-in-charge for DLA Disposition Services in Afghanistan, addresses his team as they assemble by the memorial display to remember fallen employee Krissie Davis and her sacrifice.

June 8, 2020

Bagram staff remembers fallen comrade

BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Defense Logistics Agency personnel in Afghanistan took time to remember a colleague lost in a rocket attack five years ago.

June 5, 2020

Excess property donation fills state needs

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Used Defense Department equipment and excess goods flow to organizations of all sizes through DLA Disposition Services and the national network of state surplus property offices.