DLA News Archive

Tag: West DS

A man on a tarmac looks over some equipment on a pallet.

Feb. 22, 2022

Employee Reflection: David Grant

The 7-year agency veteran helps protect the public through the proper demilitarization of sensitive military property.

A man posing in front of a building sign.

Feb. 17, 2022

Employee Reflection: Vernon Campbell

Get to know the agency's environmental protection specialist from DLA Disposition Services Sierra.

Feb. 16, 2022

Leadership reflection: David Miner

Get to know the area manager for DLA Disposition Services Sierra.

A nephew and uncle pose at a base in Iraq.

Feb. 1, 2022

Oscar Montiel's great 48

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The organization we now call DLA Disposition Services celebrates its 50th anniversary later this year, but it was still just a toddler when a young farmer and Army vet from Arizona came aboard in 1974.

People observe a barge loaded with large pieces of industrial scrap metal.

Jan. 1, 2022

How the West was won in 2021

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Warfighter support highlights from a year of reverse logistics throughout the West region.

Field Office Realignment text with a military member

April 29, 2021

Property disposal field offices to close

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — 60 employee positions will be realigned over the coming year to optimize disposal network capacity and improve overall support to the warfighter.

Feb. 25, 2021

Barstow site lead honored for 1st quarter performance

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Heath Buswell was recently named DLA Disposition Services Employee of the Quarter.

Four men wearing personal protective equipment for warehouse work and facemask stand socially distanced inside a warehouse with a forklift and boxes on pallets around them.

Feb. 2, 2021

DLA Disposition Services manager shares COVID-19 support story

CAMP PENDLETON, Calf. — Keeping employees safe, supporting warfighters, helping the nation fight COVID-19 – that’s what Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services Camp Pendleton Area Manager Luis Guzman did with his 2020.

Riggers watch as a crane lifts a massive piece of submarine hull onto a barge for disposal.

Dec. 4, 2020

A look back on DLA Disposition Services West support during 2020

BATTLE CREEK, Michigan — The Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services West region team had a busy year, highlighted by its handling of various Navy and Army special divestiture projects conducted during a global pandemic.

April 23, 2020

Excess property site at Camp Pendleton provides N95 masks to Navy hospital

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Materials Examiner and Identifier Shawn Guy made a valuable find March 26 when he discovered 2,680 N95 masks at the Defense Logistics Agency property disposal site at Camp Pendleton, California.