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.

DLA senior enlisted leader Army Command Sgt. Maj. Charles Tobin, left, shakes hands with the longest-working employee at DeRossi & Son in Vineland, N.J., with 55 years on the job, during a visit to the Clothing and Textiles vendor’s facility Aug. 19. Tobin also visited Crown Clothing in Vineland and the Federal Correctional Institution at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J.

Aug. 21, 2015

DLA senior enlisted leader visits C&T uniform producers

VINELAND, New Jersey — DLA’s senior enlisted leader Army Command Sgt. Maj. Charles Tobin lauded a long-time uniform manufacturer during his visit to three DLA Troop Support Clothing and Textiles vendors Aug. 19.

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.

Air Force Master Sgt. Woodrow Ruff (left) and Army Staff Sgt. Brandon Miller (right) were selected July 27 as DLA Senior and Junior NCO of the Third Quarter, respectively. DLA Troop Support Chief of Staff Robert Ratner hailed Ruff and Miller as two of the organization’s “best and brightest.”

Aug. 13, 2015

Two of Troop Support’s ‘best and brightest’ earn NCO of the quarter

PHILADELPHIA — Two DLA Troop Support service members are being recognized for their dedication and commitment to the agency’s mission by being named NCOs of the quarter.

(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.

Army Brig. Gen. Charles Hamilton, DLA Troop Support commander, hands a pair of combat boots to an Air Force recruit receiving her initial clothing issue Aug. 6 at Lackland Air Force Base. Hamilton saw technology implemented by the Clothing and Textiles supply chain that helped cut the clothing issue time in half.

Aug. 12, 2015

Troop Support commander sizes up recruits at Lackland AFB

LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas — The first pair of combat boots didn’t fit. So DLA Troop Support Commander Army Brig. Gen. Charles Hamilton walked to the stocked shelf and brought another pair to the Air Force recruit.