DLA CENTCOM and SOCOM News

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Jan. 14, 2025

SkillBridge tailors OJT for transitioning servicemembers

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A DLA Disposition Services-assigned Army officer leveraged the six-month DOD program to continue working for the agency after military retirement.

High school students sit at long lab tables working on laptops while a teacher stands looking at them in a class room.

Jan. 9, 2025

Excess military computers donated to rural Ohio schools through DLA

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The National Trail Local School District in Paris, Ohio, is a small, rural district in a farming community where education funds are tight. Yet, thanks to the efforts of District Technology Coordinator Brian Pool, students there are thriving in the digital age with some help from Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services and DOD Computers for Learning.

Jan. 7, 2025

2024 Highlights: Business Support

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Business Support directorate played a major role throughout a year focused on organizational transformation.

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Jan. 2, 2025

Agency supports Fort Cavazos cleanup

BATTLE CREEK, Mich — In a display of environmental stewardship and community responsibility, soldiers stationed at Texas’ Fort Cavazos spread out across the installation and training areas to tackle illegal dumping during a post-wide cleanup.

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Dec. 31, 2024

2024 Highlights: North-East

BATTLE CREEK — The Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services North-East Region’s Director Beth Ford said that her team had a challenging and exciting 2024. “The linchpin to our success was leveraging our New Employee Orientation program to make our team more efficient and effective and emphasize the collective capabilities of our entire regional network versus any specific site.”

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Dec. 26, 2024

2024 Highlights: Operations

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The directorate at the heart of the agency’s reverse logistics business rolls into the new year with a clear focus on strengthening data analytics and fine-tuning customer service.

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Dec. 23, 2024

2024 Highlights: Mid America

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services’ Mid-America region had what Region Director Jessie Parisano called “a great 2024.”

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Dec. 18, 2024

2024 Highlights: Europe and Africa

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Disposition personnel overseas deployed WMS in warehouses and field scenarios, trained scores of forward-deployed warfighters on proper turn-in procedures, and helped units increase their readiness by taking excess property off the books.

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Dec. 17, 2024

Disposition Services serves another holiday breakfast in Battle Creek

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Palm Garden Room at the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center smelled of flapjacks and buzzed of amusement as employees lined up for breakfast cooked by their senior leaders.

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Dec. 13, 2024

2024 Highlights: Pacific

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — All across the Indo-Pacific, agency reverse logistics professionals helped warfighters meet their mission in a part of the world that grows more important to U.S. national security objectives with each passing year.

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Battle Creek, Mich. Dec. 10, 2024

2024 Highlights: West

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — “We had a pretty good year,” said Christopher Buchanan, Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services West Region Director. He said region personnel provided outstanding support to customers, assisting them in achieving their missions. Internally, he said the group also achieved significant results.

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Dec. 6, 2024

Michigan wildfire workshop promotes military surplus equipment repurposing

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — An annual gathering of wildfire response experts in Roscommon highlights federally-supported Firefighter Property Program benefits and the conversion of DLA-sourced former military vehicles and equipment to modern firefighting apparatus.

Dec. 4, 2024

2024 Highlights: Contracting

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A look at some of the 2024 highlights from the DLA Disposition Services Contracting Division.

Nov. 29, 2024

DLA Document Services turns 75

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The agency’s print shop specialists continue a legacy three quarters of a century in the making.

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Nov. 27, 2024

DLA Disposition Services concludes successful Industry Day

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services Contracting division hosted its lates Industry Day in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Nov. 25, 2024

Agency director hosts town hall and addresses agency’s future

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Defense Logistics Agency Director, Army Lt. Gen. Mark Simerly, traveled to visit DLA Disposition Services headquarters for a town hall and discussion regarding the Annual Operating Plan.

Nov. 22, 2024

Leadership spotlight: A Q&A with Col. Woodje Caldwell

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Get to know DLA Disposition Services Deputy Director Army Col. Woodje Caldwell.

Nov. 19, 2024

2024 Highlights: Southeast

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Taking a look at 2024 highlights for the DLA Disposition Services Southeast region.

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Nov. 15, 2024

2024 Highlights: Resource Management

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Behind every successful organization is a team that ensures everything runs smoothly, often out of the spotlight. For Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services, its Resource Management directorate plays a crucial role in this effort.

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Nov. 12, 2024

Battle Creek DLA employees receive awards

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Four Defense Logistics Agency employees recently earned Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center Service Awards at the 68th Armed Forces Appreciation Luncheon.

Nov. 8, 2024

MOH recipient addresses agency personnel in Battle Creek

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Michigan native James McCloughan was credited with saving the lives of ten soldiers in 1969 while under fire in Vietnam.

Nov. 5, 2024

Leadership Spotlight: Dean Newsome

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — From humble beginnings mowing yards and shoveling snow in Pittsburgh to his recent appointment as director of DLA Disposition Services -Document Services, Dean Newsome continually seeks opportunities to improve himself and others.

A large crane lifts the top portion of a locomotive off it's wheels.

Oct. 29, 2024

Train loads of excess from DLA Disposition Services

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The nonprofit organization Railroading Heritage of Midwest America recently acquired a diesel switcher locomotive donation through Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services from the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky.

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Oct. 25, 2024

Battle Creek summit strengthens personnel bonds

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Agency property disposal leaders wrapped a week of networking and game planning in Michigan Oct. 25.

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Oct. 22, 2024

Property reutilization prioritized for 2025

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — In support of a new long-term agency strategy, DLA’s reverse logistics arm wants to triple the amount of used and excess DOD property reclaimed by warfighters.