DLA Energy News - Category Indo-Pacific

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.

Mr. James McClaugherty, DLA Land and Maritime deputy commander, visited the Pearl Harbor Naval shipyard and DLA-Pacific Aug. 10 on his first stop of an international trip through the Pacific region.

Aug. 25, 2015

DLA Land and Maritime Deputy Commander visits Pearl Harbor enroute to Western Pacific

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — Mr. James McClaugherty, DLA Land and Maritime deputy commander, visited the Pearl Harbor Naval

DLA Distribution Pearl Harbor’s Inventory Support Team has been named Team of the Quarter for the third quarter of fiscal year 2015.

Aug. 24, 2015

Pearl Harbor’s Inventory Support Team named Team of the Quarter

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — DLA Distribution Pearl Harbor’s Inventory Support Team has been named Team of the Quarter for the third quarter of fiscal year 2015.

Aug. 21, 2015

DLA Distribution Yokosuka, Japan’s, Surge Team awarded Team of the Quarter

YOKOSUKA, Japan — Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Yokosuka, Japan’s, Surge Team has been awarded the Team of the Quarter award for third quarter, fiscal year 2015, for their outstanding strides managing the air, sea, and truck cargo deliveries throughout mainland Japan during a surge of inbound containers.

Aug. 21, 2015

DLA Distribution Yokosuka prepares to manage Japan’s Transportation Protective Service program

YOKOSUKA, Japan — As part of an effort to increase support to the warfighter, Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Yokosuka, Japan, is preparing to manage Japan’s Transportation Protective Service program. This effort gives DLA responsibility for freight within mainland Japan that requires TPS, including classified, sensitive, and hazardous material.

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.