DLA Pacific News

Category: Disposition Services

Official portrait of a male with an American flag in the background.

June 18, 2023

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Ryan Kirby is an Environmental Operations Monitor for Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services Disposal Services Directorate Europe and Africa region in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He participated in the Pathways to Career Excellence Program from 2015 to 2017.

Man, woman, and three young boys stand in front of airplane

June 16, 2023

Leadership Spotlight: Jason Roberts

BATTLE CREEK, Mich — Meet Jason Roberts, woodworker, Navy veteran and proud father.

June 12, 2023

Lejeune supplies training aides one vehicle at a time

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Disposition Services Lejeune site recently provided multiple military service units with valuable training tools in the form of demilitarized vehicles.

Mother, two children and father sit in stadium seats

June 5, 2023

Leadership Spotlight: Terra Nguyen

BATTLE CREEK, Mich — Terra is the Equipment Management Solutions Director and has been with the agency for almost two decades.

A man in a hardhat constructs a temporary shelter from metal poles.

June 2, 2023

ACOR to bring deployment skill training to Battle Creek

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — This summer’ expeditionary readiness will help get civilian property disposal personnel and new agency reserve military members “back to basics” on reverse logistics know-how.

May 25, 2023

Disposition Services Eglin continues providing support to services

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A look into how the Defense Logistics Agency’s Disposition Services site in Eglin, Florida, supports a variety of customers in the region.

A woman poses in front of an art installation.

May 23, 2023

Globetrotting EOQ winner serves warfighters where they are

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Italy-based Operations Supervisor Angela Sakryd enjoys the unique challenges that property disposal can bring.

Man giving a thumbs up while sitting on an autonomous floor scrubber in a warehouse.

May 19, 2023

Disposition Services adds autonomous floor cleaner to inventory

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — DLA Disposition Services is collaborating with DLA R&D, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to test an autonomous floor scrubber in a warehouse setting.

A large piece of green equipment with an extendable boom prepares to lift a container that is used to ship items on the back of semitrucks. The operation is taking place in a parking lot.

May 18, 2023

Ohio RTCH reuse saves over $1 million

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services team in Columbus, Ohio, knew they could put a Rough Terrain Container Handler to good use, but with a price tag of over $1 million for a new one, it was just out of reach.

A photo of a man and his family, another photo of the same man helping a customer in a warehouse, but looking substantially smaller.

May 17, 2023

Standout Alaska-based disposal specialist aims to inspire others

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — When some longtime customers recently visited DLA’s property disposal site in Anchorage, they started looking around for ‘the big guy’ and asking where he was. They didn’t realize they were talking directly to him.