DLA Energy News - Category Aviation

Center Restaurant staff serve various BBQ themed meals to the Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, community. Defense Logistics Agency Installation Support at Richmond’s Morale Welfare and Recreation staff expected 500 community members to come to the event, but more than 800 members showed up to the first Bellwood Bash Family and Friends Day Celebration May 18, 2017 at Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.

May 22, 2017

Richmond, Va. — Morale, Welfare and Recreation held the first Bellwood Bash Family and Friends Day Celebration May 18 at Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.

Los Angeles Fire Department crew member ascending into DFSP San Pedro Tank 15 during confined space and rescue training.

May 22, 2017

DFSP San Pedro trains with LAFD

SAN PEDRO, California — First responder teams practiced confined space rescue training at the Defense Logistics Agency Energy Defense Fuel Support Point San Pedro, California, April 12-14.

Defense Logistics Agency Installation Support at Richmond, Virginia, Fire and Emergency Services employee Jamie MacFarlane has served as a fire fighter and hazardous material and emergency medical technician for five years in Richmond. MacFarlane enjoys being in public service because he wants to help people and make a difference in his community.

May 18, 2017

National EMS Week Spotlight: Jamie MacFarlane

Richmond, Virginia — Defense Logistics Agency Installation Support at Richmond, Virginia, Fire and Emergency Services employee Jamie MacFarlane has served as a firefighter and hazardous material and emergency medical technician for five years in Richmond. MacFarlane enjoys being in public service because he wants to help people and make a difference in his community

Defense Logistics Agency Installation Support at Richmond Police Officer Sgt. Bradley McCoy highlights the Table of Honor representing officers who died in the line of duty and explained its significance to those gathered for a ceremony honoring fallen law enforcement officers May 11, 2017 in the Frank B. Lotts Conference Center on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.

May 17, 2017

DSCR honors fallen police officers at center ceremony

Richmond, Va. — Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, employees gathered May 11 for a ceremony honoring fallen law enforcement officers. The ceremony was in conjunction with National Police Week which occurs annually in May

Defense Logistics Agency Installation Support at Richmond’s Dustin Smith is a federal police officer who serves at Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.

May 16, 2017

Police Week Spotlight: Officer Dustin Smith

Richmond, Virginia — As part of Police Week observances, Defense Logistics Agency Aviation and Defense Logistics Agency Installation Support at Richmond, Virginia spotlight one of their own, Police Officer Dustin Smith, who is among those who selflessly secures and protects the base, its people and our neighbors every day.

Upon contract award, Defense Logistics Agency Installation Support Energy project managers will oversee new technologies that will clean the soil and groundwater using electrical resistance heating and steam injection at Defense Fuel Support Point San Pedro.

May 16, 2017

New technologies lead San Pedro DFSP restoration efforts

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — A pilot study using new technologies will set the stage for remedial efforts to remove contaminants in the fuel tank farm area at Defense Fuel Support Point San Pedro.

(Left) Christopher Christensen from DLA Energy Americas West earned the award in the GS 13-15 category and (right) Michael Crutcher from DLA Energy Americas East earned the award in the GS 7-12 category.

May 12, 2017

DLA Energy announces second quarter awardees

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — Defense Logistics Agency Energy recognized outstanding employees and teams for their performance during the second quarter of fiscal year 2017.

Since returning from her Defense Logistics Agency Support Team-Kuwait deployment in 2015, Amelia Stanko understands better how the strategic contracts she works on, as a contracting officer in the Supply Operations Commodities Directorate of DLA Aviation, impact the warfighter. She says she get parts to the warfighter quicker by decreasing the number of tactical buys DLA Aviation makes. (May 10, 2017 Photo)

May 10, 2017

Personal experience: Why DST is important, why I would do it again

Richmond, Virginia — Many people have asked me why I volunteered to go to Kuwait. Even more have asked me if I was scared. If I am very honest, the answer is yes. But if I admitted that even to myself, I would not have gone.

Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Army Customer Facing Division soldiers and civilian employees answer customers' supportability questions April 27, 2017 at DLA's exhibit during the 2017 Army Aviation Mission Solutions Summit at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

May 9, 2017

Aviation Army team staffs DLA exhibit at Nashville Conference

Richmond, Va. — Representatives from Defense Logistics Agency Aviation’s Army Customer Facing Division staffed the DLA Exhibit at the annual Army Aviation Mission Solutions Summit, April 26-28 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Airmen guide a Minuteman III re-entry system onto a missile guidance set in September 1990. (U.S. Air Force photo)

May 8, 2017

Sustain and Deter

Richmond, Va. — DLA Aviation has become the agency’s lead activity for support of the Minuteman III, an intercontinental ballistic missile weapon system.