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July 15, 2021
COREX team in Guam assist Navy command with excess items
JOINT REGION MARIANAS, Guam — For most, summer means vacations, but for the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services Contingency Overseas Readiness Exercise team it means training. The team deployed to Guam to demonstrate how they could support the warfighter with a prepositioned Expeditionary Site Set in a forward location.
DLA Troop Support provides fresh fruits, vegetables for record-breaking USDA summer program
PHILADELPHIA — The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support continues working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the Summer Food Service Program. This year, a record $6.7 million is allocated for the program, up from $460,000 last year, and more states have joined than ever before.
July 14, 2021
Gimcheon site destroys 60+ Army ambulances
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Demilitarization denies adversarial access to potentially valuable equipment in surplus market
July 11, 2021
MWR Fitness Center reopens all fitness rooms at HDIFC
BATTLE CREEK, Mich — MWR Fitness Center reopens all fitness rooms located in HDIFC and increases maximum occupancy number as they take a step closer to pre-pandemic business operations.
July 9, 2021
Search and rescue teams train on disposed helicopters
BATTLE CREEK, Mich — Search and rescue medics train using disposed helicopters.
July 7, 2021
Okinawa team helps restore joint range
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The removal of 20,000 lbs. of inert munitions and range residue will help trainers provide a safer, more realistic place to prepare for combat.
July 1, 2021
Commentary: PTSD is real
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder affects millions of Americans each year.
Priorities, vision set at new Troop Support commander’s town hall
PHILADELPHIA — For his first address to the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support workforce, new Commander Army Brig. Gen. Eric P. Shirley emphasized starting with “why” during a town hall event June 25 in Philadelphia.
Disposition Services employee's unique musical hobby
BATTLE CREEK, Mich — DLA Disposition Services employee, Wayne Hayward talks about how he got started designing and building string instruments.
Leadership Spotlight: Beth Ford
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Beth Ford is DLA Disposition Services North East director and has been with federal government for 35 years.
June 25, 2021
DLA Disposition Services supports USNS Tippecanoe during COREX in Guam
JOINT REGION MARIANAS, Guam — The replenishment oiler brought turn-in items to a temporary field exercise site.
DLA CENTCOM and SOCOM Commander visits Troop Support
PHILADELPHIA — Army Col. Gerard Acosta, the Defense Logistics Agency’s U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command Commander, met with DLA Troop Support senior leaders June 23.
June 22, 2021
Former Warp Speed Chief of Staff takes reins of DLA Troop Support
PHILADELPHIA — The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support’s newest commander, Army Brig. Gen. Eric P. Shirley, former chief of staff of the government’s successful mission to develop and distribute a vaccine for COVID-19, assumed command June 17 at a ceremony in Philadelphia.
Paris, Texas PD deploys surplus MRAP during SWAT response
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The former military Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected armored vehicle protected police while taking about 30 rounds from a barricaded gunman in an all-night standoff.
Guam exercise providing hands-on field training
NAVAL STATION GUAM — This year’s COREX includes two weeks of instruction in the Indo-Pacific region for the first time.