DLA Pacific News

Oct. 20, 2021

DLA Land and Maritime Timeline of the Past 60 Years

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime based at the Defense Supply Center Columbus has a long history of support to our nation’s forces. The installation was dedicated in 1918 to expedite shipments of supplies to troops serving with the Allied Expeditionary Force in France during World War I.

Oct. 19, 2021

DLA Indo-Pacific employees, Rapid Deployment Team Blue improve readiness on the Korean Peninsula

CAMP HUMPHREYS, Korea — The DLA Indo-Pacific team integrated with DLA’s RDT Blue Team during the biannual Combined Command Post Exercise 21-2, which took place on the Korean Peninsula Aug. 16-26. The exercise provided an opportunity for DLA to train, evaluate, and test systems while demonstrating DLA’s capabilities and strategic global reach.

Oct. 18, 2021

DLA Land and Maritime employees honored for efforts resulting in conviction in long-running fraud case

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General’s Defense Criminal Investigative Service honored two Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime employees recently for their efforts in tracking a decades-long scheme by New Orleans businessman Robert Klein to defraud DOD of millions of dollars. The effort to hold Klein accountable was a partnership between DLA Land and Maritime, DCIS, the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, who prosecuted the case.

Oct. 14, 2021

Land and Maritime gains consumable hardware mission

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime completed a DLA supply chain efficiency initiative by realigning its consumable hardware mission to better support DLA’s customers. The focus of the mission shift requires DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime’s assumption and management of more than 900,000 national stock numbered items divided between the two Major Subordinate Commands.

Oct. 11, 2021

Japan property disposal saves Navy $

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Strong connections to DLA recently helped warfighters unload aging watch towers and mobile small arms ranges that had rusted after years of exposure to salty sea air.

Oct. 8, 2021

Admiral visits Wright-Patt clinic to thank Airmen

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — Rear Adm. Kristen Fabry visited Wright-Patterson Medical Center on Oct. 1 to thank the 88th Medical Group Airmen who provided active duty and civilians at Defense Supply Center Columbus with the COVID-19 vaccine earlier this year.

Oct. 7, 2021

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Since 1981, October has been National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The observance serves to educate communities, individuals, couples and families about the Family Advocacy Program services and other community resources that can help prevent domestic violence, raise awareness of community responsibility, and inform the community of the many ways to report domestic abuse.

Oct. 7, 2021

Advance coordination smooths regional DODEA furniture swaps

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Disposition offices recently helped DOD schoolhouses in Europe and Asia prepare for fall with assistance on large furniture disposal projects.

Oct. 1, 2021

Longtime DSCC engineer, installation deputy retires

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Defense Logistics Agency Installation Management – Columbus Deputy Site Director Eddy Poprock retired Oct. 1 after 39 years at the Defense Supply Center Columbus. The Lorain, Ohio, native began his federal career shortly after graduating Ohio State University when he took a developmental civil engineering job at DSCC – then known as the Defense Construction Supply Center.

Oct. 1, 2021

U.S. Forces Korea and 19th Expeditionary Sustainment leaders visit DLA Distribution Korea

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Army Brig. Gen. Timothy P. White, director of U.S. Forces Korea J4 and Army Brig. Gen. Steven L. Allen, commander of 19th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, visited Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Korea for a tour of the new warehouse Sept. 8.