DLA News Archive

Tag: Navy

DLA Distribution commander Army Brig. Gen. Richard Dix, center, cuts a cake honoring the Navy’s 240th birthday alongside DLA Distribution’s active, reserve and retired Navy sailors.

Oct. 13, 2015

DLA Distribution celebrates Navy’s 240th birthday

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pennsylvania — Defense Logistics Agency Distribution employees and leadership gathered to wish a collective “Happy Birthday” to the Navy Oct. 13, in honor of the service’s 240th anniversary.

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 Capt. Harry T. Thetford, commander, DLA Distribution Norfolk describes Operation Pacer Goose as “a joint operation that takes an immense amount of teamwork.”

July 9, 2015

DLA Distribution Norfolk team player with Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard in Pacer Goose 2015

NORFOLK, Virginia — In early July, the Ocean Giant set sail from Norfolk Naval Base with 2 million pounds of supplies on an 11-day voyage to the U.S. Armed Forces’ northernmost military installation in the world. Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Norfolk, Va., was part of the team tasked with the U.S. Space Command’s yearly surface resupply for 650 U.S. Air Force personnel at Thule Air Force Base, Greenland, in support of Operation Pacer Goose 2015.