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Sept. 7, 2021

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — The Defense Logistics Agency is providing humanitarian assistance supplies in support of U.S. Northern Command’s Operation Allies Welcome, the mission to evacuate Afghan refugees as part of ongoing efforts across the federal government, now led by the Department of Homeland Security.

Debris fills a yard in front of a house.

June 16, 2021

Agency representatives ready for 2021 hurricane season

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — DLA has provided hurricane response since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and is ready to support organizations like FEMA and NORTHCOM during the 2021 season.

Person in protective gown, mask and gloves slides a nasal swab up the nose of another woman.

Oct. 22, 2020

DLA COVID-19 support guided by strong alliances with whole-of-government partnerships

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Strong alliances with other federal agencies and its role as the Defense Department’s lead agent for medical supplies made the Defense Logistics Agency an essential contributor to the nation’s coronavirus response.

Navy Capt. Paul Haslam (left), commander of the DLA Rapid Deployment Team, discusses a project to build a helicopter pad with Troop Support liaison officer Robert Cunningham, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, October 2016.

July 17, 2020

Deployable civilians needed for deputy commander, operations officer positions on DLA rapid deployment teams

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — Civilian volunteers are needed to fulfil deputy commander and operations officer roles for three Defense Logistics Agency Rapid Deployment Teams that will deploy on short notice to assist military and federal agencies during international emergencies and contingencies in 2021.

Members of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command's Syrian Logistics Cell stand for a group photo in Erbil, Iraq.

Aug. 26, 2019

This Is What We Do: Syrian Logistics Cell

ERBIL, IRAQ — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the 1st Theater Sustainment Command website —Tucked away in northern Iraq is a small group of Mississippi Army National Guard Soldiers dedicated to coordinating and fulfilling the essential logistics needed for warfighters.

July 30, 2019

621st CRW teams up with joint partners in 'Southeast Asia' for exercise

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center website — Nearly 1.6 million people are still trying to get their bearing after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake ravaged Southeast Asia. After a request for assistance from South Torbia, U.S. Transportation Command calls upon its premier response forces: 621st Contingency Response Wing, 689th Rapid Port Opening Element and the Defense Logistics Agency’s Rapid Deployment Team-Blue. This was the exercise scenario for Turbo Distribution 19-03, held July 18-24, 2019, at Contingency Operating Base Panther in North Vernon, Indiana.

Emiliano Falca, warehouse worker, Logistic Readiness Center-Italy's Humanitarian Assistance Program - Excess Property, loads humanitarian aid supplies to be shipped to Ukraine, Feb. 13. The shipment supports the United States Agency for International Development Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) mission to Zhytomyr, Ukraine, providing supplies to a rehabilitation center for women and infants there.

March 8, 2019

LRC Italy supports humanitarian relief efforts to Ukrainian rehabilitation center

Camp Darby, italy — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the 405th Army Field Support Brigade website — The Logistic Readiness Center-Italy’s Humanitarian Assistance Program loaded a shipment of humanitarian aid supplies headed for Ukraine, at Camp Darby, Italy ,Feb. 13-14.

The hospital ship USNS Comfort, white with red crosses, is docked in Puerto Rico

Aug. 23, 2018

Hospital Ship to Support Humanitarian Effort in Latin America

MIAMI — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Defense Department website — The Navy's Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort will deploy to Central America and South America in late September to begin a two-month humanitarian mission with stops in Colombia and elsewhere in the region.

Personnel from a contracted DLA Troop Support Clothing and Textiles vendor in Erbil, Iraq package winter clothing kits for nearly 15,000 internally displaced persons returning to a liberated Raqqah, Syria December 19, 2017. C&T supported the U.S. Agency for International Development’s humanitarian support request for 2,500 winter clothing kits, including boots, socks, coats and blankets by mid-January.

Feb. 13, 2018

C&T provides winter clothes to Syrians returning home

PHILADELPHIA — Nearly 15,000 internally displaced persons returning to a liberated Raqqah, Syria, received winter clothes and blankets provided by the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support.

DLA Aviation employees work together to provide critical part

Nov. 13, 2017

DLA Aviation provides critical part to hospital in the wake of Hurricane Maria

Richmond, Va. — The evening of Sept. 18, Hurricane Maria roared through the Island of Dominica as a Category 5 hurricane. A week later the Military Liaison Office in the Barbados and Eastern Caribbean U.S. Embassy reached out to Defense Logistics Agency Aviation with a critical support need from the main hospital in Roseau, the capital of the Caribbean island nation of Dominica.

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