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March 1, 2023

Empower your journey: Recommended reading for personal and professional growth and development

BATTLE CREEK, Michigan — March is National Reading Month and some of the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services leaders have shared the titles that had a lasting impact on them professionally.

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Feb. 28, 2023

Disposition Services Contracting Officer receives DLA award

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services Contracting Officer Annette Graham was presented with the Excellence in Acquisition award during DLA’s 55th Annual Employee Recognition Awards Program Jan. 26 at its Fort Belvoir, Virginia, headquarters.

A former military cargo truck painted red sits outside a tan building. The truck has no military markings but does have a water tank on its bed used to take water to fires.

Feb. 24, 2023

Custom apparatus ready to respond to fires and floods in Texas

Battle Creek, Mich. — A military cargo truck declared excess now serves Texas’ Pecan Grove Volunteer Fire as a multi-purpose response vehicle thanks to the DOD Firefighter Property Program and Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services.

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Feb. 23, 2023

DLA Europe & Africa commander reflects on transformational year

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — DLA Europe & Africa commander reflects on employees' dedication to adapting to the U.S. European Command’s “new-normal” in response to Russian aggression against Ukraine allied territory and the corresponding U.S. government response.

Feb. 21, 2023

DAU makes Battle Creek house call

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The agency’s reverse logistics team hosted its first guest post-pandemic guest instructor during a Defense Acquisition University training session in Michigan Feb. 15-16.

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Feb. 17, 2023

Today’s military surplus growing tomorrow’s energy

Battle Creek, Mich. — Excess military equipment donated by Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services is playing a part in alternative energy and agricultural research happening in North Carolina.

Feb. 15, 2023

PaCE Spotlight: LaRoy "Lulu" Clark

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — LaRoy “Lulu” Clark participated in the Pathways to Career Excellence Program from 2015-2017. The PaCE Program is a two-year program that takes PaCERs through all of DLA Disposition Services and its processes to learn as much as possible about the directorate. The first year takes place at DLA Disposition Services Headquarters in Battle Creek, Michigan, and the second year either takes place in Battle Creek for Contracting PaCERs or at an assigned field site for Property Disposal PaCERs.

Feb. 13, 2023

Out with the old, in with the new – WMS transition is underway

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services San Antonio Go Live event is complete, and the Warehouse Management System is officially in use within Disposition Services.

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Feb. 10, 2023

HDIFC encourages healthy living at Winter Wellness Fair

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Battle Creek Morale Welfare and Recreation and Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center’s Voluntary Protection Program Wellness Committee partnered to host the Winter Wellness Health Fair Feb. 8 in Battle Creek, Michigan.

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Feb. 8, 2023

Okinawa-based crane operator honored

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — 33-year agency veteran and recent DLA Disposition Services Employee of the Quarter Takashi Shimabukuro has perhaps the coolest job in DLA: tearing objects and equipment apart with his tracked crane.

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