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DLA director Air Force Lt. Gen. Andy Busch, left, presents Bikki Queen, secretary for the Preservation, Packaging, Packing, and Marking Branch at Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Oklahoma City, Okla., with one of the top Ten Outstanding DLA Personnel of the Year awards for 2015 awards at the 48th annual employee recognition ceremony Dec. 10. Distribution’s commander Army Brig. Gen. Richard Dix, second from right, and DLA’s Senior Enlisted Leader Army Command Sgt. Maj. Charles Tobin, right, were also on-hand to present the award.

Jan. 4, 2016

Oklahoma City’s Queen recognized at annual DLA award ceremony

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — Bikki Queen, secretary for the Preservation, Packaging, Packing, and Marking Branch at Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Oklahoma City, Okla., was chosen the receive one of the top Ten Outstanding DLA Personnel of the Year awards for 2015.

The DLA Distribution Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Transportation Management team has been namedthe DLA Distribution Team of the Quarter for fourth quarter fiscal year 2015.

Jan. 4, 2016

Pearl HarborTransportation team wins Distribution Team of the Quarter

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — The DLA Distribution Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Transportation Management team has been named the DLA Distribution Team of the Quarter for fourth quarter fiscal year 2015 for its innovative methods in moving items to the customer in a more efficient and effective manner.

The USS Forrest Sherman, a former Navy destroyer, sits in a trench in New Orleans in October. The ship is the first scrapped through a Defense Logistics Agency contract since the late 1990s.

Jan. 4, 2016

DLA Disposition Services scraps decommissioned ship

New Orleans, Louisiana — A chapter in Navy and DLA Disposition Services history is ending in a trench dug off New Orleans’ Industrial Canal, less than three miles from the French Quarter.

A former Army 5-ton tractor truck acquired by the Torrance County, New Mexico Sheriff’s Department through the DLA Law Enforcement Support Office waits for its next mission Dec. 26. Repurposed with a snowplow, the rig was used to reach isolated rural residents of the county in the wake of heavy snow from Winter Storm Goliath.

Jan. 4, 2016

Stranded travelers, snowbound residents benefit from ex-military gear

Albuquerque, New Mexico — DLA recently helped local communities deal with emergency snowfall by providing excess military equipment donated by DoD through the Law Enforcement Support Office program.