DLA Energy News

Retired Army Col. Fredric Johnson, who served as a U.S. Army Quartermaster officer and petroleum specialist for more than three decades, passed away Aug. 8.

Sept. 15, 2015

Army Col. Fredric E. Johnson: the consummate Army petroleum professional

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — Retired Army Col. Fredric Johnson, who served as a U.S. Army Quartermaster officer and petroleum specialist for more than three decades, passed away Aug. 8. His final assignment before retirement in 1972 was as acting commander of the Defense Fuel Supply Center, Cameron Station, Virginia, the predecessor of Defense Logistics Agency Energy.

Air Force Master Sgts. Keith Grady and David Janes are two of only four Air Force Logistics Education Advancement Program noncommissioned officers in their Air Force career field. The LEAP is a career broadening education program designed to provide selected NCOs with on-the-job experience and training in special fuels logistics areas.

Sept. 14, 2015

DLA Energy Airmen among top one percent selected for elite program

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — Air Force Master Sgts. Keith Grady and David Janes are Logistics Education Advancement Program NCOs assigned to Defense Logistics Agency Energy Operations Center and work on fuel-related logistics issues at the Air Force and Department of Defense level.

DLA Energy Utility Services’ newly appointed parents cradle their infants, representing the seven of 11 births in the last year.

Sept. 10, 2015

Energy’s Lorton division creates baby boom

LORTON, Virginia — Whether they know or not, 11 very dependent little people are the makings of Defense Logistics Agency Energy Utility Services’ future workforce. Since September 2014, there have been 11 babies, and counting; the first baby was born in September and the last two were born in August.

Group members supporting the Ulchi Freedom Guardian 2015 exercise pose outside of the Defense Logistics Agency Energy Pacific at Korea headquarters at the conclusion of their fuel and training coordination at Camp Walker, Daegu, South Korea, Aug. 28.

Sept. 2, 2015

DLA Energy supports Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise

CAMP WALKER, South Korea — The Defense Logistics Agency Energy supported Ulchi Freedom Guardian 2015 before and during the cooperative South Korean exercise through training and fuel coordination.

The Defense Logistics Agency Energy’s pilot program to provide academic researchers with helium for use in their federally funded research resulted in savings of up to 27 percent for several universities.

Aug. 20, 2015

DLA Energy continues helium support for universities

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS — The Defense Logistics Agency Energy’s pilot program to provide academic researchers with helium for use in their federally funded research resulted in savings of up to 27 percent for several universities.

(Seated) Operation Warfighter Program Member Army Sgt. Palestine Fox learns about her new role as a DLA Energy program analyst and master planner from her on-the-job trainer, Logistics Management Specialist Christine Guillen, who will be Fox's primary trainer, providing guidance and shadowing until Fox is ready to take on the job herself. DLA Energy is one of the first organizations to hire a wounded warrior through the Operation Warfighter Program.

Aug. 12, 2015

DLA Energy empowers service member through Operation Warfighter Program

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — Whether armed in her Kevlar vest and responsible for convoy supplies in Kuwait or providing warfighter support from her desk at Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Army Sgt. Palestine Fox knows how to take her military experience and apply it to any job.

(Seated) Defense Logistics Agency Energy Project Management Analyst Gladys White of Sustainment, Restoration and Modernization learns about her new role from her rotational supervisors, DLA Energy SRM Army Branch Chief Jim Tyrrell and DLA Energy Program Analyst and Master Planning Branch Chief Debra Simpson. White is the first DLA Energy employee to participate in the new program.

Aug. 12, 2015

Six-month rotation, DLA Energy’s pipeline to success

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — Gladys White is the first DLA Energy employee to kick start the Defense Logistics Agency Energy’s Rotation Program. For the next six months she is setting aside her administrative role in DLA Energy Direct Delivery Fuels and learning about becoming a project management analyst for the Defense Fuel Support Point Management’s Sustainment, Restoration and Modernization division.

Air Force Maj. Douglas Saab, Defense Logistics Agency Energy Middle East Supplier Operations commander, speaks during his retirement ceremony at Naval Support Activity Bahrain Aug. 7. Saab retired after 24 years in the United States Air Force.

Aug. 10, 2015

DLA Energy Middle East Air Force major retires after 24-year career

NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY BAHRAIN, Bahrain — The Defense Logistics Agency Energy Middle East Supplier Operations commander retired after 24 years in the United States Air Force during a ceremony at Naval Support Activity Bahrain Aug. 7.

DLA historians Harold Raugh (left) and Chrissie Reilly review a DLA Energy historical photo that was found in one of 23 archival boxes of photographs and negatives donated to the DLA archives. More than 6,000 historic photos and negatives documenting the evolution and development of the Defense Fuel Supply Center were given to the DLA archives.

Aug. 4, 2015

Historical DLA Energy photos added to DLA archives

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — Defense Logistics Agency historians received more than 6,000 historic photographs, negatives and 10 video tapes to add to the DLA history program during renovations to the DLA Energy Kunkel Conference Room.

A contract carrier is being fueled at the Fort Wainwright aviation fuel facility after delivering 120 fire fighters from North Carolina and Virginia to help fight fires in interior Alaska. The Fort Wainwright aviation fuel facility is one of nine different bases throughout Alaska that DLA Energy Pacific supplies fuel to on a monthly basis.

July 27, 2015

Jet fuel demand soars for Alaska firefighting operations

FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska — A record-breaking fire season in Alaska is increasing demands for cold weather jet fuel supplied by Defense Logistics Agency Energy Pacific at Alaska to support firefighting operations.