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April 11, 2022
Awareness and tips for emergency calls emphasized during National 9-1-1 Education Month
Richmond, Va. — National 9-1-1 Education Month is observed annually in the month of April at the Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia. The 9-1-1 system serves as the vital link between the public and emergency responders. It is intended as a nationwide telephone number and gives the public fast and easy access to a public safety answering point.
April 6, 2022
April is Security Awareness Month: If you see something, say something!
Richmond, Va. — We all have our daily routines. We go to work, stop by the store, maybe pick up our kids from school and travel home. We usually do not alter our routines unless something unusual occurs. It is the unusual events or unique observations that Defense Logistics Agency, Installation Management Richmond’s Security and Emergency Services wants to hear about! To assist you with reporting these unusual occurrences, DLA has developed a program called DLA iWatch.
April 5, 2022
Employee Spotlight: Royce Stinnett
RICHMOND, Va. — Employee spotlight regularly features outstanding non-supervisory personnel from throughout the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation and other DLA employees on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia. Organizational directors may submit names of employees they wish to feature in this column to DLA Aviation Public Affairs. For more information, call (804) 279-3139.
April 4, 2022
Sheffield descendant visits family land on DSCR
Richmond, Va. — Robert Sheffield, a descendant of Sir Thomas Sheffield who in 1619 owned 2,000 acres of the land now known as Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, visited the installation March 19.
March 30, 2022
DLA Aviation January Leadership Award recipients invest in employee growth
Richmond, Va. — Good leaders recognize potential in their employees, and great leaders find ways to help employees fulfill that potential. Robert “Bob” Kish, supervisor of the Marine Corps Customer Facing Division’s Aviation Customer Relationship Management Cell and Sarah Wright, chief of Strategic Contracts within the Program Management Division, Strategic Acquisition and Programs Directorate, are the January Defense Logistics Agency Aviation Leadership Award recipients and honored for their dedication to helping employees reach their professional potential.
March 28, 2022
Tour provides DLA Aviation glimpse into their role in keeping Virginia Army National Guard helicopters flying
RICHMOND, Va. — More than a dozen members of Defense Logistics Agency Aviation’s Supplier Operations Original Equipment Manufacturer Directorate toured the Virginia Army National Guard’s Aviation Support Facility in Sandston, Virginia, March 17.
March 25, 2022
Airmen recognized for leadership, excellence by DLA enterprise
Richmond, Va. — Two Defense Logistics Agency Aviation airmen win enterprise-level recognition for their performance and leadership.
March 22, 2022
Respected and highly impressive performers earn DLA Aviation’s employee of the month honors for January
RICHMOND, Va. — Reggie Sanders, a sustainment specialist within the Planning Division at Defense Logistics Agency Aviation at Jacksonville, Florida, and June Leeper, , a contracting specialist within the Emergency Contract Support Division at DLA Aviation at San Diego, California, were selected as DLA Aviation’s Employees of the Month for January. Leeper won in the general schedule 10-13 category. Sanders took the award in the GS 1-9 category.
March 21, 2022
Employee Spotlight: Donna Rendon
Richmond, Va. — Donna Rendon said her past experience working with Marines directly on the flight line helped prepare her for her current job as a sustainment specialist with Defense Logistics agency Aviation at Cherry Point.
March 18, 2022
Bellwood elk pass annual inspection with flying colors
RICHMOND, Va. — The elk roaming freely within designated pastures on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, were given a clean bill of health by the Commonwealth of Virginia during their annual inspection March 16.
March 16, 2022
Tube assembly contracts expand supplier base, provide inventory for Air Force
Richmond, Va. — Defense Logistics Agency Aviation recently awarded contracts to two suppliers that will more than double the number of TF33 tube assemblies available to meet demand from Air Force engineering operations.
March 14, 2022
Annual tornado drill held on Defense Supply Center Richmond
RICHMOND, Va. — Every year, Virginia’s tornado season peaks during the spring and summer seasons. It’s a time when the commonwealth is susceptible to severe thunderstorms which can produce short-lived, but very destructive tornados.
March 10, 2022
DLA employees honored in Defense Logistics Agency’s 54th Annual Employee Recognition Awards video
Richmond, Va. — The Defense Logistics Agency released a video March 10 in recognition of its 54th Annual Employee Recognition Award Program for 2021. The awards recognize leadership and hard work in support of the agency’s mission in 13 categories.
March 9, 2022
Spring forward safely by changing your clocks, batteries during daylight saving time
Richmond, Va. — Fire and Emergency Services personnel with Defense Logistics Agency Installation Management Richmond are encouraging employees to change batteries in smoke alarms when they change their clocks for daylight saving time March 13.
March 7, 2022
Grieving mothers find strength from family, friends and DLA Employee Assistance Program
RICHMOND, Va. — In the mid-1980’s, the late pop icon Prince recorded a song for the Under the Cherry Moon soundtrack titled Sometimes it Snows in April. In it, he laments “Sometimes I wish that life was never ending, but all good things they say, never last.” It’s an emotion Gail Gillus, a supervisory program analyst within Defense Logistics Agency Aviation’s Command Support Directorate’s Resource Management Division at Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, has experienced for the past five months.