DLA Troop Support News

DLA disposal experts provide observation and guidance as New Zealand Defence Force personnel demilitarize a naval frigate-based fire control system at Devonport Naval Base in Auckland, New Zealand in early April.

April 25, 2019

DEVONPORT NAVAL BASE, New Zealand — A pair of the agency’s Pacific region demilitarization experts traveled to Auckland in early April to help an ally’s navy ready for upcoming frigate refits.

Sailor gets ash cross Ash Wednesday on ship

April 19, 2019

DLA provides religious support items in time for celebrations across the globe

PHILADELPHIA — DLA provided ecclesiastical or religious items to service members around the globe in time to celebrate Ash Wednesday, Passover, Palm Sunday and Easter holidays this year.

Contractors prepare to transport more than 14,000 pounds of lead acid batteries from Thumrait Air Base to a recycling facility in Oman.

April 17, 2019

Teamwork recharges disposal process

Thumrait Air Base, Oman — After more than a year, lead acid batteries used to support U.S. operations in Oman are being disposed of again thanks to new capabilities there and teamwork between two of the Defense Logistics Agency’s major subordinate commands.

Air Force Col. Mary Ann Garbowski, Air Force Medical Operations Agency Medical Logistics director, left, and Lt. Col. Roger Willis, DLA Troop Support Medical supply chain’s Institutional Customer Facing Division chief, right, pose with Willis’ retirement certificate during a ceremony at DLA Troop Support April 12, 2019 in Philadelphia.

April 16, 2019

Air Force medical officer ‘knows it’s time’ to end 20-year career

PHILADELPHIA — Air Force Lt. Col. Roger Willis ended his 20 years of military service during a retirement ceremony at the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support April 12.

Five B-52 Stratofortresses deployed from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., fly a sortie over Norway, March 28, 2019.

April 15, 2019

Industrial Hardware does their part to keep B-52 engines running

PHILADELPHIA — Imagine ordering parts for a major auto repair shop that supplies hardware to maintain engines for 76 vehicles. Although it’s 2019, the newest vehicle in the fleet was built in 1962. Each of those 76 vehicles have eight engines, and their ability to operate is critical to national security. This is a job that some of the employees at the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support’s Industrial Hardware supply chain perform every day in supporting the sustainability of the TF33 engines that power the Air Force’s B-52 Stratofortress, the service’s self-proclaimed “backbone of the manned strategic bomber force,” according to the Air Force’s B-52 fact sheet.

Lewis Sieber, fire equipment manager of the Nebraska Forest Service navigates through flood water searching for stranded people in a six-wheeled drive cargo truck issued through the DoD Firefighter Program. Photo provided by the Nebraska Forest Service

April 12, 2019

Excess to the rescue

Battle Creek, Michigan — Equipment from DLA Disposition Services helped save lives as Nebraska recently faced its worst flooding of the past 50 years.

Nina Kessler, a U.S. Agency for International Development Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance humanitarian assistance advisor, left, Dorothy O’Connell, a DLA Troop Support J3/5 Plans and Operations customer support liaison, center, and Elizabeth Smithwick, a USAID OFDA humanitarian assistance advisor, right, pose for a photo at DLA Troop Support April 3, 2019 in Philadelphia.

April 9, 2019

Humanitarian course keeps Troop Support employees ready for USAID operations

PHILADELPHIA — The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support hosted the Joint Humanitarian Operations Course led by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance in Philadelphia April 2-3.

Mike Cannon (seated, second from left in first row), DLA Disposition Services director, and Kathy Atkins-Nunez (seated, second from left in second row, DLA Disposition Services’ South-East Region director, listen as Thomas W. Harker, assistant secretary of the Navy for financial management and comptroller, presents data findings from a recent Navy full financial statement audit.

April 9, 2019

Leaders share benefits of divestiture

Jacksonville, Florida — Senior leaders for DLA Disposition Services joined Thomas W. Harker, assistant secretary of the Navy for financial management and comptroller, and Navy Vice Adm. Dixon Smith, deputy chief of naval operations, fleet readiness and logistics, for their audit roadshow March 27 and 28.

Leadership from DLA and the Department of Veterans Affairs pose after a ribbon cutting at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center March 7, 2019.

April 8, 2019

Medical strengthens its partnership with VA to support military, veteran health care

PHILADELPHIA — The partnership between the Defense Logistics Agency and the Veterans Affairs continues to grow as the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center begins using the Medical supply chain’s Medical/Surgical Prime Vendor program.

Army Brig. Gen. Mark Simerly, DLA Troop Support commander, speaks to new Pathways to Career Excellence employees during a town hall at DLA Troop Support March 4, 2019 in Philadelphia.

April 5, 2019

Troop Support welcomes new PaCE employees

PHILADELPHIA — The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Commander Army Brig. Gen. Mark Simerly welcomed new Pathways to Career Excellence employees March 4 in Philadelphia.

DLA Troop Support Product Test Center Analytical textile technologist Anna Wilson, far left, and lab supervisor Jamie Hieber, second from right, explain how the PTC-A testing processes aided in better adherence of reflective lettering on Navy physical training uniforms to a group of sailors assigned to Naval Support Activity Philadelphia April 3, 2019 in Philadelphia.

April 5, 2019

DLA Troop Support’s PTC Analytical hosts tours, promotes knowledge

PHILADELPHIA — The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Product Test Center Analytical hosted tours for DLA Headquarters counsel and junior Navy sailors April 3 in Philadelphia. The event helped educate partners and customers on the scientific testing employees do in support of the warfighter.

Generators arriving at the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office await use at a new training facility or whenever they might be needed for disaster response and rural investigations.

April 4, 2019

Small sites provide big support shipping excess property to new users

Blue Grass Amy Depot, Kentucky — Like the popular 2001 Army recruiting slogan, Disposal Support Representative William Thompson must see himself as “an army of one” as he serves multiple locations from his one-person DLA Disposition Services site at Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky.

Army Brig. Gen. Simerly speaks to Vietnam War veterans

April 4, 2019

Memories of dirty boots, cold showers shared during Vietnam War Commemoration Day event

PHILADELPHIA — Approximately 70 local Vietnam War veterans were honored during a commemoration event March 29 at KleinLife in Northeast Philadelphia.

Bill Blake is a TVLS, in the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support’s Subsistence supply chain. Blake serves as the trainer to new TVLS PaCERs on the OCONUS team. (Photo by Alexandria Brimage-Gray)

April 4, 2019

Specialized training program helps new employees thrive in the Subsistence supply chain

PHILADELPHIA — As a former intern in the now, Defense Logistics Agency Pathways to Career Excellence program, these are feelings that Bill Blake knows very well. So he decided that he would do something to help ease the transition for those participants who came after him.

What is this? A Naval Air Station Patuxent River anechoic chamber from the 1960s – enclosing a space so quiet that the decibel level inside is measured in the negative range – just one of thousands of outdated or unneeded items DLA expects to receive from the U.S. Navy during the course of its mammoth upcoming equipment divestiture project.

April 2, 2019

Agency assists with Navy property accounting

NAS PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — DLA disposal reps are helping the U.S. Navy create a property divestiture playbook for its upcoming "Materiel Clean Sweep."