Fort Campbell, Kentucky –
Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services employees at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, have been hard at work assisting Army units there with their continued efforts to enhance readiness by getting rid of what they no longer need.
A November 2019 release from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) described how Operations Clean Eagle and Eagle Sweep would drive the turn-in of all excess and unserviceable containers until completion in early 2020. Items in the containers were processed to identify and separate items inside to get rid of any trash and turn in potentially usable items both through unit supply support activities and through the 101st Sustainment Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) before excess containers themselves were turned in. The two efforts were combined into one order to avoid confusion, which created Operation Eagle Sweep.
Army Maj. Brian Zorger, 101st Sustainment Brigade support operations defense information base chief, said in the release it was hoped that excess items from the containers would fill needs across the division, thus saving money.
“If the excess cannot fill shortages or is unserviceable, it will be returned to unit SSAs for future issuing, turned-into DLA Disposition Services or turned-into Sierra Army Depot,” Zorger said.
As of late January, DLA Disposition Services Area Manager Joe Downey said 16 trucks worth of property from Clean Eagle property was collected with a projected need of 30 more to handle all of the container items received. Downey said Operation Eagle Sweep had generated 210 containers, with almost 200 of them with a total original acquisition value of more than $1.5 million enrolled for possible reutilization, transfer, or donation. Usable containers not consumed by those programs could go into sales.
“We’re now in the second phase of Eagle Sweep with more property to come,” Downey said.