DLA Troop Support News

Dec. 4, 2020

A look back on DLA Disposition Services West support during 2020

BATTLE CREEK, Michigan — The Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services West region team had a busy year, highlighted by its handling of various Navy and Army special divestiture projects conducted during a global pandemic.

Dec. 4, 2020

Hardware team shares skills, culture to support COVID-19 demand areas

PHILADELPHIA — How can I help? A simple question, but one that speaks to character. It’s exactly the question that the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support’s Industrial Hardware team proudly asked to support their partners during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, they managed to maintain a two-year trend of improved warfighter support in the process and brought their enthusiastic attitudes to the other high-performing supply chains, Air Force Col. Adrian Crowley, Director of IH, said.

Dec. 3, 2020

Fort Carson employee honored

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Material Examiner and Identifier Michael Vasquez was recently named Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services Employee of the Quarter.

Dec. 1, 2020

Leadership Spotlight: Omar Khlifi

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Get to know Omar Khlifi, DLA Disposition Services Director, South East region.

Nov. 30, 2020

Kuwait-based disposal representative named employee of quarter

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Honner Raul Carbajal-Sanchez was recently honored for his contributions to the agency’s property disposal operations in the Middle East.

Nov. 27, 2020

Surplus military tents repurposed as coronavirus testing sites

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — New Jersey’s Union County is among DLA’s many excess-property recipients reusing former mobile shelters in their local fight against COVID-19.

Nov. 24, 2020

Planning, coordination, flexibility key ingredients to DLA providing warfighters Thanksgiving dinner

PHILADELPHIA — For more than 50 years, the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support has been providing traditional Thanksgiving food to field kitchens, dining facilities and galleys in the United States, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and other locations where service members are deployed. While the logistics of getting the ingredients to the table were more complicated this year, warfighters will still have a traditional Thanksgiving meal this week.

Nov. 24, 2020

Agency team helps Army shed excess equipment at Fort Bragg

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Defense Logistics Agency employees and U.S. Army Special Operations Command personnel are partnering at Fort Bragg North Carolina, to support the Army’s divestiture of excess initiative.

Nov. 23, 2020

Defense Logistics Agency gets Thanksgiving meals

PHILADELPHIA — This year, Thanksgiving will be different for our service men and women throughout the world. While meals may be switched to grab-and-go style takeout instead of large group gatherings in dining facilities, the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence supply chain is making sure that warfighters everywhere are able to have a home-cooked meal with all the trimmings this holiday.

Nov. 23, 2020

Free fitness program lasts through year’s end

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Battle Creek Morale, Welfare and Recreation office is providing free employee access to Wellbeats, an online fitness provider that delivers on-demand classes, challenges, and fitness assessments to its subscribers anytime, anywhere.

Nov. 21, 2020

Team recognized for helping Army commands divest during pandemic

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Despite the challenges of COVID-19 restrictions a Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services team showed their strong partnership with U.S. Army Forces Command as they met the command’s critical and essential disposals across 27 installations, earning a DLA Strategic Goals Award for the 3rd Quarter.

Nov. 19, 2020

Innovative teambuilding keeps coworkers together

PHILADELPHIA — With work from home being a new normal in the world of COVID-19, one team of Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support employees has found a way to include “work family” in their home office dynamic to build greater team strength and resilience.

Nov. 18, 2020

Texas volunteer firefighters use former military trucks

DAINGERFIELD, Texas — Jenkins Volunteer Fire Department has converted a second Steward Stevenson, excess military truck from the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services into a firefighting machine by adding a slip-on unit, front bumper nozzles, and drafting capability.

Nov. 17, 2020

DLA support to nursing homes: A ‘challenging, humbling’ success

PHILADELPHIA — The Defense Logistics Agency overcame hurdles to support the nation’s demand for personal protective equipment for at-risk populations early in the coronavirus pandemic. As one of the U.S.’s most susceptible populations, the elderly became a primary focus of DLA Troop Support’s Construction and Equipment supply chain when the Department of Health and Human Service requested two tranches of pre-packaged lifesaving protective items for 15,455 nursing homes nationwide.

Battle Creek, Mich. Nov. 16, 2020

Vets resource event held virtually

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center recently held a virtual veteran’s resource fair in observance of Veterans Day. With most workers from the Battle Creek, Michigan, landmark working from home, this year’s Veterans Day program was conducted online Nov. 10.