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Archive: June, 2019

Deputies use their Humvee to travel Dobson Chapel Rd. during Hurricane Matthew.

June 25, 2019

Excess equipment helps deputies battle the elements

Duplin County, North Carolina — Not far from Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune lies a county where the sheriff's deputies there also train to serve in "every clime" like their Marine neighbors with some help from the excess military vehicles and equipment they obtain with help from the Defense Logistics Agency.

Property Disposal Specialist Parry Miller guides the construction of a mobile command and control shelter at Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo. Miller will serve as the disposal site lead for two weeks as a DLA Disposition Services team torches, shreds and removes broken down equipment the U.S. Army has accumulated during its peacekeeping mission there.

June 18, 2019

Mobile disposal site deploys for first time

CAMP BONDSTEEL, KOSOVO — An agency property disposal team has set up temporary shop at Kosovo’s Camp Bondsteel to help the 20-year-old base rid itself of defunct and decrepit equipment.

Environmental protection specialists listen during training on the Hazardous Material Management System-Hazardous Waste Disposal currently being deployed to DLA Disposition Services sites.

June 17, 2019

New system modernizes hazardous waste disposal

Battle Creek, Michigan — By the time Thanksgiving Day arrives, those who handle hazardous waste disposal will have much to be thankful for when it comes to easier processing for their materials.

Overseas Contingency Operations Readiness Training, or OCORT, prepares military and civilian agency personnel for constructing and manning portable disposal sites that can be shipped and used nearly anywhere in the world.

June 11, 2019

OCORT kicks off

BATTLE CREEK AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mich. — The agency's annual expeditionary disposal skills exercise prepares deployment teams for the rigors of challenges of warfighter support downrange.

Four of seven U.S. Navy "Seabees" who helped DLA save thousands through equipment transport: Petty Officer 2nd Class Vonell Williams, Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew Klem, Chief Petty Officer William Wilson and Petty Officer 1st Class Justin Dickinson are pictured with Guam site chief Eric Mills.

June 7, 2019

Sometimes you help the warfighter, sometimes they help you

GUAM — U.S. Navy Mobile Construction Battalion personnel, known as “Seabees,” recently helped their local DLA disposal site save an estimated $11k in equipment transportation costs.

More property at NAS Jacksonville Building 110 warehouse that awaits the beginning of the Material Exploratory Program Pilot.

June 3, 2019

Teamwork clears the decks at Navy warehouses

NAS Jacksonville, Florida — The Navy and the Defense Logistics Agency are working together to make a "clean sweep" of material in warehouses that needs to go.