DLA Troop Support News

April 16, 2025

Troop Support provides more than 37,000 pounds of food for Easter, religious items for Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Passover

PHILADELPHIA — Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support provided more than 37,000 pounds of food to service members around the globe for Easter, April 20. In addition to special religious items for Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Orthodox Palm Sunday and Passover.

April 15, 2025

PACE Spotlight: Casch Kunkel

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Casch Kunkel is a current member of Pathways to Career Excellence Group 48, which began in 2024. For his second year in PACE, he will be placed at the DLA Disposition Services site at Letterkenny Army Depot in Pennsylvania.

A soldier in safety gear motions for a vehicle to depart a ship.

April 10, 2025

“Lightning Purge” of obsolete Army equipment in Hawaii

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — DLA Disposition Services recently supported a successful Army 25th Infantry Division two-month property divestiture that allows Indo-Pacific-focused logisticians to prioritize warfighting and readiness in the region.

April 8, 2025

RA summit brings together two DSDs for training

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services resource analysts from the Southeast and Mid-America regions recently gathered for a unique and informative summit in Jacksonville, Florida.

Air Force personnel pose in front of a crate containing WMD response equipment.

April 4, 2025

Ramstein taps DLA property reuse stream for WMD threat response system

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The inactivation of a Germany-based Army Reserve Weapons of Mass Destruction response team recently freed up a $1 million collection of chemical sensors, detectors, and protective personal gear quickly scooped up by the Air Force’s 435th Air Ground Operations Wing.

This graphic describes the four pillars of the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support's Construction and Equipment supply chain's #EfficiencyThruAwareness Campaign aimed to raise awareness about their programs’ efficient and effective acquisition processes. Scan the QR code to learn more.

April 3, 2025

DLA Troop Support’s #EfficiencyThruAwareness campaign enhances procurement production

PHILADELPHIA — The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support's Construction and Equipment supply chain is spearheading the #EfficiencyThruAwareness campaign to raise awareness about their programs’ efficient and effective acquisition processes.

March 31, 2025

Kuwait provides experience of a lifetime for Disposition Service member

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Olivia Beavers, a Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services environmental protection specialist, discusses her PCS to the Kuwait field site.

Two men dressed in military attire exchange a beret in front of a crowd.

March 31, 2025

Troop Support’s Medical supply chain director briefs Special Operations Command

Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support’s Medical supply chain Director briefed a United States Special Operations Command class on the agency’s medical materiel resources last month in Tampa, Florida.

A dust cloud can been seen next to and behind a military style vehicle that sits on a bridge span in what looks like a brown grass field.

March 28, 2025

Hardwood air-to-ground weapons range refreshes targets with DLA assistance

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Hardwood Air-to-Ground Weapons Range recently refreshed several targets using excess property from the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services that had been deemed scrap.

The Defense Logistics Agency’s Deputy Director of Logistics Operations Kristin French, left, the Veteran Health Administration’s Deputy Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Support Ronald Miller, center, and DLA’s Deputy Chief Financial Officer Shawn Lennon, right, sign a 10-year, $3.6 billion Level 2 interagency agreement March 12, 2025, at the McNamara Headquarters Complex in Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

March 27, 2025

DLA and VHA sign 10-year, $3.6B partnership agreement

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Senior leaders from the Defense Logistics Agency and Veterans Health Administration signed an interagency agreement for healthcare support at DLA Headquarters March 12.

DLA Troop Support pose for a group photo after completing the 2024 SAAPM Walk. Photo credit Gina Ingrao

March 26, 2025

DLA Troop Support to observe Sexual Assault Awareness Month throughout April

PHILADELPHIA — Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month is upheld by the military and civilian agencies during the month of April. In keeping with the SAAPM theme of previous years, “Step Forward. Prevent. Report. Advocate”, the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support will hold events all month long.

March 25, 2025

PACE Spotlight: Paul Turner

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Pathways to Career Excellence Program for DLA Disposition Services is a two-year program that takes PACER’s through all of 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 PACER’s or at an assigned field site for Property Disposal PACER’s.

People in a conference room having virtual meeting

March 21, 2025

Battle Creek updates vice director on AOP

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services team members in Battle Creek, Michigan participate in a virtual brief with Brad Bunn, the vice director of DLA.

Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support's Commander Army Brig. Gen. Landis Maddox poses for a picture with retiree Gary Gordon Morris during a retirement ceremony March 18. Morris retired as a quality assurance specialist from the Clothing and Textile supply chain with 23 years of federal service.

March 21, 2025

Troop Support honors dedicated service of civilian retiree

PHILADELPHIA — A quality assurance specialist with the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support’s Clothing and Textile supply chain was honored for his 23 years of federal service during a retirement ceremony March 18.

March 20, 2025

Troop Support provides Medal of Honor decorations to American heroes

PHILADELPHIA — The highest military honor awarded by the United States, is procured by a team of logisticians at Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support in Philadelphia.