DLA Troop Support News - Category Disposition Services

Sergeant Major of the Army Dan Dailey, center, stands with soldier models wearing the Army green service uniform during its national debut at the Army-Navy game

April 22, 2020

C&T continues mission, social distancing with virtual Dress Clothing Industry Day

PHILADELPHIA — Social distancing due to the coronavirus did not deter Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support’s Clothing and Textiles supply chain from getting vital information to American manufacturers by hosting a virtual Dress Clothing Industry Day April 8.

Sorina Prian-Tanczos, a DLA Troop Support Industrial Hardware employee, poses in front of a wooded area with her husband and son April 17, 2020.

April 22, 2020

Mindfulness techniques help employees maintain resilience in stay-at-home environment

PHILADELPHIA — An event by DLA Troop Support’s Resiliency and Education for Achievable Careers and Health Program shared mindfulness and resilience practices to help employees manage stress and challenges while teleworking.

Soldiers load boxes of cots into a truck.

April 20, 2020

DLA helps Army donate 1,300 cots to the Philippines’ COVID-19 response

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The cancellation of an annual field exercise allowed for the quick donation of the excess bedding units to the longtime treaty partner.

Senior Master Sgt. Michael B. Moody, 64th AEG first sergeant, oversees Staff Sgt Awa B. Diakhate, 64th AEG PERSCO, April 8, 2020. They were both forward deployed to the Javits Center in NYC to help fight against COVID-19. Moody is a packaging specialist with the Construction and Equipment supply chain at Defense Logsistics Agency Troop Support in Philadelphia.

April 17, 2020

Employee Spotlight: DLA Troop Support employee answers call, joins military response to pandemic

PHILADELPHIA — As Defense Logistics Agency employees provide essential equipment to warfighters and

Woman works at sewing machine making face mask

April 17, 2020

Amateur mask makers proliferate among property disposal workforce

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services associates around the globe have jumped aboard the do-it-yourself mask-making craze to protect their families and meet new safety requirements for essential Defense Department workers.

Andy McElroy, a transportation driver at Marine Corps Logistics Command, helps Shipping and Receiving Technician Christopher Leymeister (seated on forklift) with the loading of personal protective suits the command provided to the Defense Logistics Agency as part of their effort to gather supplies for the COVID-19 response.

April 17, 2020

DLA, DTRA offers excess protective suits for COVID-19 with help from Marine Corps

ALBANY, Georgia — More than 40,000 protective suits earmarked for military response to chemical and biological hazards have been redirected to protect those battling COVID-19 after joint efforts by the Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency and Marine Corps Logistics Command.

Jeremy Sexton, a project supervisor for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, locates N95 masks to prepare them for pickup by the Defense Logistics Agency to make them available for use by the U.S. Transportation Command through joint efforts by DLA Distribution and DLA Disposition Services. Photo by James Eason, DSCA

April 16, 2020

DLA Disposition Services makes excess military items available for COVID-19 response

BATTLE CREEK, Michigan — Government organizations and nationwide hospitals are getting valuable assets to confront the coronavirus pandemic from a Defense Department asset that manages the military’s excess equipment.

April 16, 2020

DLA Troop Support supplies pre-made meals for sailors in quarantine

PHILADELPHIA — The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support’s Subsistence supply chain received a request from the U.S. Navy for individually wrapped, pre-made sandwiches, salads and breakfast sandwiches in March, said Patricia Scott, chief of DLA Troop Support’s Customer Operations Garrison Feeding Division. These items will go to ships, mostly aircraft carriers, docking in Seattle, Washington; San Diego, California; Norfolk, Virginia; and Mayport, Florida, she said, to feed soldiers in quarantine and limit exposure.

a woman soldier is receives a thermometer test at a National Guard facility

April 14, 2020

DLA Troop Support expedites disposable gloves to Korea, protects soldiers against coronavirus

PHILADEPHIA — As people around the world continue to curtail the spread of COVID-19, the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support is helping protect soldiers in Korea with disposable gloves. In late March, the Clothing and Textiles organizational clothing and individual equipment team expedited an emergency order for 30,000 pairs of gloves for the 498th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion in Korea.

Warehouse personnel prepare boxes of N95 masks for shipment to the Coast Guard.

April 13, 2020

Agency locates 47,000 excess N95 masks for Coast Guard responders

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A respirator lot was retrieved by DLA Disposition Services personnel from an excess property contract sales warehouse where they had been sent prior to the coronavirus outbreak.

New York, NY, March 30, 2020 – The USNS Comfort arrived in New York to support the national, state and local response to the coronavirus (COVID-19). The hospital ship will provide approximately 1,000 beds for urgent care patients not infected with the virus, relieving pressure on local hospital systems. K.C. Wilsey/FEMA

April 13, 2020

Troop Support provides essential supplies to floating hospitals

PHILADELPHIA — As the USNS Comfort and Mercy medical staffs care for patients on the East and West coasts, they are using supplies and equipment procured by the various Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support supply chains to perform their mission. The two Navy hospital ships, docked in New York City and Los Angeles, were deployed in March to relieve land-based hospitals overwhelmed by the COVID-19 epidemic.

Deborah Jackson (right), a project manager for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency at Albany, Georgia, and her colleagues Robert Brantley (center), a material expeditor, and Jeremy Sexton, a project supervisor, begin to inventory, prepare, and palletize the 154,000 N95 masks to prepare them for shipment.

April 13, 2020

Teamwork provides protective masks quickly

ALBANY, Georgia — Quick efforts by elements of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the Defense Logistics Agency and U.S. Transportation Command moved 154,000 N95 masks from storage at Albany, Georgia, to make them available to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services or the military in their response to COVID-19.

April 10, 2020

Despite COVID-19 delays, DLA delivers Seder kits to soldiers in Germany for Passover

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — An emergency order of Seder kits was held up, partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on its way to help Jewish soldiers with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Vilseck, Germany, celebrate the Passover holiday. DLA reps maintained constant contact with the Army unit's chaplain throughout the delivery.

Dr. John H. Kellogg with a cockatoo on his shoulder.

April 9, 2020

DLA Disposition Services keeps century of healing spirit moving forward

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center has a long history of service and with the outbreak of COVID-19, the echoes of that history are now coming to light.

Tugboats assist USNS Comfort up the Hudson River as the hospital ship enters New York City. Federal, state, and local agencies provide a security escort for the patrol. Actions by logistics data experts at the Defense Logistics Agency’s Logistics Information Services will make it easier for the crew to acquire parts for ship. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Zachary Hupp)

April 7, 2020

Logistics data experts help fight against COVID-19

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — It takes a lot of supplies and many types of equipment to fight a pandemic. Recently, logistics data experts at the Defense Logistics Agency’s Logistics Information Services used their skills to help customers find materials they need to battle the COVID-19 virus.