Disposition Services News

It may be sunny, but it's still minus 25 degrees as Disposal Service Representative Rob De Long uses a Bobcat with a snow blower to clear snow from the truck scale.

Jan. 31, 2019

Ft. Drum, New York — A cold visitor from far north brought work to a halt at the DLA Disposition Services site in upstate New York.

Hurricane Michael created an estimated 15 million pounds of scrap and more than 450 uninhabitable buildings at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida. DLA Disposition Services personnel scrap disposal coordination at the installation may last as long as six months.

Jan. 15, 2019

Hurricane recovery support ongoing at Tyndall AFB

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — Area disposition personnel are putting in extra work to help Florida's Tyndall Air Force Base make the speediest recovery possible from the devastation of Hurricane Michael.

Army 1st Lt. Jason Bryant, currently interning with DLA Disposition Services, assists with an inventory at the Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, site.

Jan. 14, 2019

Soldiers train for new careers while helping agency

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii — DLA Disposition Services interns have shown how workforce development and warfighter support can merge during transition assistance training.

Robert Helgeson (left), U.S. Central Command’s deputy director for logistics and engineering, listens as LaTanya Callahan (center), area manager, and Navy Cmdr. Max Becker, officer in charge of DLA Disposition Services in Afghanistan, explain yard operations.

Jan. 10, 2019

Bagram staff shares mission info with senior logistics leader

Bagram, Afghanistan — Defense Logistics Agency employees serving in Bagram, Afghanistan, had the chance to enhance warfighter trust and get their New Year off to a good start with a visit from a senior logistician on the U.S. Central Command staff.

eaders from DLA's Joint Reserve Force, DLA Disposition Service's Joint Reserve Team and expeditionary support personnel in Battle Creek gather for a group shot during the annual Disposal Support Team planning huddle Dec. 14-16.

Dec. 20, 2018

Uniformed disposal teams prep for 2019

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Leaders from the six Disposal Support Units leave their annual huddle with a plan for warfighter support in the coming year.

Margaret Jones, an agency rep from the DLA Disposition Services site at Nellis, stands next to the pickup truck’s tailgate as Air force service members unload excess computes for possible use in the Computers For Learning program and recycling.

Dec. 19, 2018

Storerooms emptied by mass e-waste turn-in event

Nellis AFB, Nevada — Airmen at Nellis Air Force Base faced a glut of outdated computer equipment that needed to be removed in a responsible way to protect the environment.

DLA Director and DLA Navy Senior Enlisted Leader present a group award to a team of eight people.

Dec. 18, 2018

Recognition ceremony lauds individual, team achievements

Fort Belvoir, Virginia — Defense Logistics Agency employees from across the enterprise packed the McNamara Headquarters Complex Auditorium to honor team and individual contributions at the 51st Annual Employee Recognition Awards Ceremony Dec. 13.

A John Deere forklift loader awaits sale at the DLA Disposition Services at Djibouti excess property yard onboard Camp Lemonnier. DLA recently completed its very first usable excess property sale on the continent of Africa.

Dec. 14, 2018

Agency usable excess property sales begin in Africa

Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti — 35 items netted almost $50,000 in continent’s first online excess property auction.

Don Phillips, DLA Installation Support at Battle Creek site director, pulls a cart full of donated items into the Salvation Army facility.

Dec. 7, 2018

Agency employees share holiday spirit with their neighbors

Battle Creek, Michigan — Once again Defense Logistics Agency employees in Battle Creek, Michigan, connected with the community to help those in need enjoy the holiday season through the employees’ contributions to the Salvation Army’s Adopt-A-Family program.

Guy Stutzman is interviewed by a video team from the Defense Logistics Agency’s Public Affairs Office about his part in the Agency’s video on the recycling of strategic materials.

Nov. 26, 2018

New video shows effort to support National Defense Stockpile

Battle Creek, Michigan — A new video shows how recovery and recycling are good preserving strategic materials.

Material Examiner and Identifier Eric Thorne, from Norfolk, and Property Disposal Specialist Todd Lutter, from the Kaiserslautern site in Germany, watch during a MHE Rodeo skills challenge event at the DLA Disposition Services expeditionary support facility in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Oct. 30, 2018

MHE Rodeo crowns best operator

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The inaugural DLA Disposition Services MHE Rodeo pitted 13 of the agency's best forklift drivers in a head-to-head, eight event battle for supremacy Oct. 23-25.

During his State of Command message, DLA Disposition Services Director Mike Cannon counts off the many ways the workforce supports the Defense Logistics Agency's effort to support all of the government.

Oct. 26, 2018

“It’s been a very good year”

Battle Creek, Michigan — Attendees from across the global workforce gathered in Battle Creek, Michigan, Oct. 22-26 for a Senior Leader Summit where they heard DLA Disposition Services Director Mike Cannon call the time since their previous gathering “a very good year.”

The team uses heavy equipment to moves damaged vehicles to the shearing area.

Oct. 23, 2018

Mobile team takes demil mission to the warfighter

Bost, Afghanistan — When you count on vehicles for protection as well as transportation, you don’t want your used ones to fall into the wrong hands, something the Defense Logistics Agency is well equipped to prevent.

Lt. Gen. Paul Funk II, the III Corps and Fort Hood commander, holds a tag during the Fort Hood Clean Sweep Surge Event while explaining that he was a senior at Montana State University when a chemical detector passed its most recent readiness inspection on December 13, 1983.

Oct. 17, 2018

Eliminating the plague of excess at Fort Hood

FORT HOOD, Texas — A Fort Hood Clean Sweep Surge Event included an interagency team of personnel from Fort Hood Recycle, the Fort Hood Landfill, and DLA Disposition Services.

DLA Disposition Services materials examiner and identifier Jeremy Liehr was named Defense Logistics Agency Employee of the Quarter in October for serving as agency equipment manager in Afghanistan.

Oct. 12, 2018

Liehr named DLA Employee of Quarter

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Jeremy Liehr, a materials examiner and identifier for the DLA Disposition Services at Lewis site, was recently named one of three Defense Logistics Agency Employees of the Quarter.

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