DLA News Archive

Tag: Fort Wainwright

Aug. 11, 2020

New Army Culinary Outpost food kiosk opens in Alaska

PHILADELPHIA — The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support worked with food managers from the Army Sustainment Command, the 402nd Army Field Support Brigade, the Army’s Joint Culinary Center of Excellence and prime vendors to establish a new Culinary Outpost kiosk at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. A grand opening was held for the kiosk on July 22.

An instructor at the Northern Warfare Training Center in Alaska test-wears an Arctic camouflaged cold-weather uniform, Feb. 12, 2017. DoD photo by David Vergun

Feb. 22, 2017

Alaska's extreme cold tests soldiers, equipment

LACK RAPIDS TRAINING SITE, Alaska — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Department of Defense website — Newcomers to the interior of Alaska are often taken aback by the extreme cold and its effects on the body and equipment, according to Steve Decker, a training specialist at the Northern Warfare Training Center at Fort Wainwright, Alaska.

A contract carrier is being fueled at the Fort Wainwright aviation fuel facility after delivering 120 fire fighters from North Carolina and Virginia to help fight fires in interior Alaska. The Fort Wainwright aviation fuel facility is one of nine different bases throughout Alaska that DLA Energy Pacific supplies fuel to on a monthly basis.

July 27, 2015

Jet fuel demand soars for Alaska firefighting operations

FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska — A record-breaking fire season in Alaska is increasing demands for cold weather jet fuel supplied by Defense Logistics Agency Energy Pacific at Alaska to support firefighting operations.