DLA News Archive

Tag: Subsistence

Airmen guide a Minuteman III re-entry system onto a missile guidance set in September 1990. (U.S. Air Force photo)

April 1, 2017

Fort Belvoir, Virginia — DLA Aviation has become the agency’s lead activity for support of the Minuteman III, an intercontinental ballistic missile weapon system.

Soldiers with the 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colorado, participate in the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research Development and Engineering Center annual ration field trials in July 2016. DLA veterinarians inspect military food supplies, supervise operational ration assembly plants, as well as supply and distribution points, and they approve food sources around the world.

April 1, 2017

Safety Squad

Fort Belvoir, Virginia — DLA leans on Army veterinarians to help ensure warfighters around the world eat safe, wholesome food.

Students at Discovery Middle School in Madison, Alabama hold up their Alabama-grown satsumas during lunch. DLA Troop Support’s Subsistence supply chain provides satsumas to Alabama schools through Department of Defense Fresh program.

Feb. 9, 2017

Subsistence grows produce support to Alabama schools with satsumas

PHILADELPHIA — Schoolchildren in Alabama are enjoying a citrus treat this winter thanks in part to DLA Troop Support. Satsumas are a seedless fruit with loose skin grown in Alabama. And the Subsistence supply chain provides them to schools through the DOD Fresh Program.

Capt. Joe Beale, a systems automation officer assigned to the 57th Expeditionary Signal Battalion and deployed to Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, cheers as the Seattle Seahawks score a touchdown during Super Bowl XLVIII, Feb. 2, 2014. DLA Troop Support’s Subsistence supply chain helped ensure service members enjoy traditional fare for this year’s big game.

Feb. 2, 2017

DLA serves Super Bowl fare to service members overseas

PHILADELPHIA — As millions of Americans munch on game-day fare while watching the Super Bowl this Sunday, so will service members serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, thanks to DLA Troop Support.

Small Tribes of Western Washington’s David Gibson helps Titiana Burks
collect her food order at the STOWW distribution center in Lakewood.

Feb. 1, 2017

Shared Harvest

Fort Belvoir, Virginia — With DLA’s help, a USDA program helps residents of American Indian reservations get the produce they need.

DLA Troop Support’s Ken Wilmoth, who leads one of six garrison feeding teams that carry out the DoD Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, inspects tomatoes destined for elementary schools at the prime vendor’s location in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Jan. 1, 2017

Collards to Kale

Fort Belvoir, Virginia — DLA Troop Support ensures customers ranging from dining facility patrons to school students receive the freshest fruits and vegetables available.

U.S. Army Soldiers eat their Thanksgiving meal on Combat Outpost Cherkatah, Khowst province, Afghanistan, Nov. 26, 2009. The Soldiers are deployed with Company D, 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment.

Dec. 26, 2016

Leading and Feeding

Fort Belvoir, Virginia — Feeding troops on three continents requires leadership and food service skills — which Todd Lutz learned in the 75th Ranger Regiment.

Army Brig. Gen. Charles Hamilton, DLA Troop Support commander, presents Russ Brooks, Subsistence field representative, with a certificate of retirement during a ceremony Dec. 15. Brooks was accompanied by his wife Denise, whom he thanked for standing beside him during his career.

Dec. 22, 2016

Subsistence field rep, who helped introduce DoD school produce program, retires

PHILADELPHIA — Russ Brooks noticed in the early 1990s that poor quality produce was being served in the Denver public schools. He later helped user in the DOD Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program to provide produce to schools.

Soldiers enjoy Christmas dinner in Cameroon Dec. 25 with food provided by DLA Troop Support's Subsistence supply chain. U.S. service members are serving in Cameroon to enhance the capability of partner nation militaries like the Cameroonian Defense Force to promote regional security and stability.

Dec. 21, 2016

DLA delivers Christmas meals to deployed service members

PHILADELPHIA — Service members deployed this Christmas will still enjoy a traditional holiday meal, with all the trimmings, thanks to the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support.

Marine Corps Cpl. Giovanni Perez, right, prepares barbecued ribs in the galley aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Whidbey Island, Nov. 14, 2016. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Nathan R. McDonald

Dec. 14, 2016

Face of Defense: Sailor Serves as ‘Sheriff of Mess Decks’

RED SEA — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Department of Defense website — Four times a day, the USS Whidbey Island mess decks are filled with a hungry crew and a well-trained staff. Nearly incomprehensible amounts of food are eaten and restocked, yet, without fail the staff has the place looking clean and ready to go again minutes after each torrent fades.