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DLA Disposition Services Logistics Management Division Chief Arthur Welsh describes the mobile office concept to Disposal Service Representatives during a customer support workshop in Battle Creek, Michigan, May 15. NOTE: Photo has been partially blurred to protect proprietary third-party technology.

May 15, 2018

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The DLA Disposition Services 2018 Disposal Service Representative Workshop kicked off in Battle Creek, Michigan, May 15, offering a packed schedule to more than 50 front-line agency reps from all around the world.

Army Spc. Dartanian Pina and Staff Sgt. Nicholas San Miguel from the 115th BSB, 1st Cavalry Division,unload a pallet of unserviceable parts for recycling to contribute to the 200,000 pounds collected by Fort Hood Recycle.

April 14, 2017

DLA helps Army units save time, money in 'surge' disposition event

Fort Hood, Texas — Defense Logistics Agency personnel helped Army units at Fort Hood, Texas, save 4,300 man hours in document preparation and screening in a recent two-week event, in which 859 vehicles turned in 400,000 pounds of scrap metal.

Bituminous coal is removed from a shuttered power plant at U.S. Navy Surface Warfare Center Indian Head in Maryland. The DLA Disposition Services assistance in finding a new home for the coal saved an estimated $6 million in removal costs.

Jan. 6, 2017

You load 9k tons and what do you get?

NSWC Indian Head, Maryland — It’s not “another day older and deeper in debt.” It’s actually more than $6 million in cost avoidance, thanks to the agency's disposal pros.

Krissie Davis, a civilian DLA employee, volunteered for service in Afghanistan and was killed at age 54 by an enemy rocket in June 2015.

Sept. 13, 2016

Property disposal specialist killed in Bagram to be inducted into DLA Hall of Fame

Krissie Davis, a civilian DLA employee killed while on her second volunteer deployment in June 2015, will be inducted into the DLA Hall of Fame Sept. 20.