Official websites use .mil
Secure .mil websites use HTTPS
Troop Support Home
April 7, 2020
New Troop Support sexual assault response coordinator encourages virtual awareness, prevention observance
Philadelphia — The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support’s new Sexual Assault Response Coordinator Gina Ingrao encourages the workforce to observe Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention month virtually, and to still reach out for help or assistance during these times.
School district uses excess Guard trucks to deliver meals
Battle Creek, Mich. — Pennsylvania’s West Mifflin Area School District is dishing out 800 meals daily with trucks acquired for free through DLA.
April 6, 2020
Op-Ed: My new normal
PHILADELPHIA — A Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Audit Readiness business process analyst writes about her experience with her “new normal” of teleworking from home, and presents recommendations to the workforce for ways they can improve morale and maintain team cohesion during the COVID-19 mandated telework.
April 5, 2020
DLA Distribution’s Current Operations team ships Passover/Easter ceremonial items to overseas troops
For more than 20 years DLA has been involved with the yearly distribution of ashes, wine and palm leaves to as many as 50 foreign locations. Whether attending Easter mass in a tent in Afghanistan or Passover service on a ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Bennage says chances are DLA was in some way involved in the process.
April 3, 2020
DLA Troop Support provides Passover, Easter food, religious items and needed comfort to servicemen, women overseas
PHILADELPHIA — With the upcoming Easter and Passover holidays, the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support is providing special meals and religious items to give some much needed comfort to servicemen and women deployed overseas, during these unprecedented times. Nearly 90,000 pounds of food and 159 religious item orders were sent to locations including Europe and the Middle East for holiday ceremonies and celebrations.
N95 masks ship to healthcare providers
Battle Creek, Michigan — DLA Disposition Services at Okinawa employees prepare nine pallets of excess military N95 respirators for priority shipment to U.S. healthcare providers battling the coronavirus pandemic outbreak.
March 26, 2020
Process improvement pilot program helps keep employees on their feet
PHILADELPHIA — A Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Continuous Process Improvement pilot program resulted in 700 employees receiving sit-to-stand desks at lower costs and faster delivery.
Ideas exchanged at DLA Disposition Services Mid-America Leadership Summit
Red River Army Depot, Texas — DLA Disposition Services Area Manager Barbara Roberts delivers remarks on the Fort Hood site during
March 25, 2020
Disposal specialist aids Italy’s pandemic fight
Battle Creek, Mich. — A longtime agency veteran is coordinating civil protection volunteers in Sicily.
March 23, 2020
DLA Disposition Services at Red River host Director's Town Hall
Red River Army Depot, Texas — DLA Disposition Services Director Michael Cannon held a town hall with the Mid-America region team at Texas’ Red River Army Depot during a recent leadership summit there in March.
March 22, 2020
Pi Day event offers employees fun, fitness and flavor
Some walked, some rode, while others ran – outside in the brisk winter air or inside on a treadmill – as they all worked to rack up the 3.14 miles to help celebrate Pi Day 2020.
March 20, 2020
Agency answers call for medical equipment
Battle Creek, Michigan — The employees at the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services locations have a long history of making excess military equipment available to help those dealing with emergencies and natural disasters, and the COVID-19 response is no exception.
DLA Troop Support and Distribution get hand-washing stations to the field in less than 30 hours
The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support and Distribution worked together to get 48 hand-washing stations to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri in less than two days so service men and women can practice proper hygiene during the coronavirus outbreak.
Students discover government and local history at the “San”
Battle Creek, Mich. — Students from Harper Creek High School recently gained some insight on how government works along with local history when they visited the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center in Battle Creek, Michigan.
March 19, 2020
Utah materials examiner honored
Battle Creek, Mich. — Materials Examiner and Identifier Jerald Dewolf is a Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services Employee of the Quarter.