DLA Troop Support News - Category Disposition Services

White flatbed truck with brown stakes parked in a parking structure next to a pickup and an a frame sign

April 27, 2020

Excess military trucks support LAPD during COVID-19 pandemic

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The department has received three flatbed trucks from the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services team at Barstow, California, through the Law Enforcement Support Office Program, also known as the 1033 Program.

A Marine puts on a green cloth face mask to protect against the coronovirus

April 27, 2020

DLA buys cloth face masks to protect DOD employees against coronavirus

PHILADELPHIA — The Defense Logistics Agency is proactively procuring cloth face masks to protect Defense Department employees against the coronavirus. The agency began working with American manufacturers to award contracts for reusable, non-surgical, cloth face masks in various styles soon after DOD released guidance requiring people to wear cloth masks on DOD property, installations and facilities in early April.

Navy Petty Officer Second Class Alejandro Garcia joins his fellow reservists practice social distancing along with their small arms skills during familiarization and practice training during their deployment supporting DLA Disposition Services operations in Afghanistan.

April 24, 2020

Afghanistan disposal mission continues amid COVID-19 challenges

BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Dozens of reservists and civilian employees supporting Defense Logistics Agency operations in Afghanistan are maintaining critical defense missions during the coronavirus pandemic.

April 23, 2020

Excess property site at Camp Pendleton provides N95 masks to Navy hospital

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Materials Examiner and Identifier Shawn Guy made a valuable find March 26 when he discovered 2,680 N95 masks at the Defense Logistics Agency property disposal site at Camp Pendleton, California.

people standing in an aircraft bay listening to speaker

April 23, 2020

50k surplus surgical masks shipped to 3 U.S. aircraft carriers

BATTLE CREEK, Michigan — Columbus property disposal team expedites delivery of a critical backorder for warfighters in the Indo-Pacific.

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.