DLA Troop Support News - Category Disposition Services

July 10, 2020

Disposal specialists surge to support Army readiness in NY

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Extra Defense Logistics Agency personnel reported to Fort Drum in June to help the 2nd Brigade Combat Team clear property books.

A fire with tall flames burns grasslands and a few small trees.

July 7, 2020

DLA Disposition Services supports Kansas firefighters

BATTLE CREEK. Mich. — When Kansas firefighters respond to a call, many use equipment the state’s foresters acquired through the U.S. Forest Service and Defense Logistics Agency.

Dan Roberts demonstrates a plank exercise, which can easily transition into a pushup, burpee or vertical jump.

July 5, 2020

Virtual fitness challenge keeps patrons active

BATTLE CREEK, Michigan — Members of the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center workforce began an 8-week program July 1 to benefit their resiliency with some help from the Battle Creek Morale, Welfare and Recreation team.

A flyer for the upcoming events organized by the Defense Logistics Agency Sexual Assault Prevention and Response program.

July 2, 2020

Troop Support workforce encouraged to wear teal on Tuesdays in July

DLA Troop Support — The DLA Sexual Assault Prevention and Response program is launching an awareness and prevention campaign featuring events that would have been held during SAAPM, with a theme and hashtag of “Not Just April.” The events, which employees can participate in whether they are in the office or teleworking, start this month with Teal Tuesdays.

July 2, 2020

Environmental specialist marks 50 years federal service

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Norfolk-based Environmental Protection Specialist and U.S. Navy veteran Edilberto Ramirez has served the nation for five decades.

June 30, 2020

Meade site adds warehouse capacity

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A 40,000 square foot expansion is just part one of a three-pronged development plan for the geographically critical military property disposal site.

Heavy construction machinery continues repairs along the access road to a dam in Tionesta, Pennsylvania June 25, 2020.

June 26, 2020

DLA, USACE partnership ensured 24-hour response to road collapse

PHILADELPHIA — Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support’s partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ensured expedited material delivery to an emergency road collapse along the Tionesta Dam near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 19.

June 25, 2020

Property, waste disposal effort grows in Poland

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Major exercises in Eastern Europe mean regular engagements for DLA Disposition Services personnel supporting rotational forces in Poland.

Sailors wearing masks receive boxes of Meals, Ready to Eat, for those quarantined on the USS Theodore Roosevelt.

June 24, 2020

Fast, easy-to-prepare meals are vital part of DLA Troop Support’s COVID-19 response

DLA Troop Support — Quickly providing easy-to-prepare meals has been a major part of Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support’s response to COVID-19.

A former military snowblower drives a snowy road.

June 22, 2020

States receive $4.5 million in excess medical supplies

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — From syringes to snowblowers, U.S. states have long relied on DLA’s excess military property for everything from rural firefighting vehicles and education technology to pandemic response equipment.

A civilian worker and an Army soldier stand and talk outside.

June 19, 2020

Army teams with DLA for property purge

BATTLE CREEK, Mich — Defense Logistics Agency employees in Hawaii recently partnered with the Army’s 25th Infantry Division based at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, to clean house during Operation Lightning Purge.

Fresh fruits and vegetables are displayed.

June 18, 2020

DLA Troop Support helps keep lunchtime going during COVID-19

DLA Troop Support — At the height of schools closing around the country due to COVID-19 in mid-March, the Defense Logistics Agency’s Subsistence supply chain added 200 schools from Illinois to a program that would help them get fresh fruits and vegetables into lunches for students and eventually the community.

The AFRH recently became a Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support customer, able to order class VIII medical supplies, and take advantage of the agency’s other procurement abilities.

June 17, 2020

Medical provides support to veteran Warfighters

PHILADELPHIA — The Medical Customer Operations Collective (Whole of Government) division recently on boarded the Armed Forces Retirement Homes in response to a high-visibility request that came down from the Office of the Assistant of the Secretary of Defense Health Affairs.

A heavy equipment operator uses shears to destroy one of the ten NATO bulk fuel carriers received at DLA Disposition Services' Kandahar site.

June 17, 2020

Agency aids NATO disposal needs

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Defense Logistics Agency personnel in Afghanistan not only support the equipment disposal needs for U.S. forces, but they also answer the call for NATO items.

Don Phillips, DLA Installation Support at Battle Creek site director, pulls a cart full of donated items into the Salvation Army facility.

June 15, 2020

Former staffer earns honors at top level school

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Before he became a distinguished graduate at the National Defense University, Don Phillips distinguished himself as a leader at the Defense Logistics Agency.