1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,662 yeah , mm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm . 2 00:00:10,340 --> 00:00:13,630 Mhm . It is a mission unchanged 3 00:00:13,740 --> 00:00:16,840 from boots to gym equipment vehicles , 4 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:18,660 two forklifts and computers to 5 00:00:18,660 --> 00:00:21,110 helicopters . The disposal 6 00:00:21,110 --> 00:00:22,832 professionals with the Defense 7 00:00:22,832 --> 00:00:25,490 Logistics agency disposition services 8 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:28,880 have received it all through five full 9 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,102 decades . They've tended to the reverse 10 00:00:31,102 --> 00:00:33,490 logistics needs of U . S . Warfighters 11 00:00:33,730 --> 00:00:35,960 and partner nations around the globe . 12 00:00:36,650 --> 00:00:38,590 And while the methods tools and 13 00:00:38,590 --> 00:00:40,870 technologies used for property disposal 14 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,640 consistently improve over time , the 15 00:00:43,650 --> 00:00:46,120 organization never forgets its history 16 00:00:46,130 --> 00:00:49,060 as it looks forward to its future . 17 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:53,610 D . L . A . Disposition services 18 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,040 reflecting on our past to build our 19 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:01,000 future . D . 20 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,550 L . A . Disposition services is a major 21 00:01:03,550 --> 00:01:06,110 subordinate command or M . S . C . 22 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:08,520 Under the Defense Logistics Agency , 23 00:01:08,530 --> 00:01:10,990 the nation's Combat Logistics support 24 00:01:10,990 --> 00:01:14,750 Agency . What led to the creation of D . 25 00:01:14,750 --> 00:01:17,360 L . A . Disposition services goes back 26 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:20,270 to World War Two . Once the US fully 27 00:01:20,270 --> 00:01:23,020 engaged in war domestic production 28 00:01:23,020 --> 00:01:25,530 expanded dramatically and as the war 29 00:01:25,530 --> 00:01:28,260 declined , vast amounts of excess 30 00:01:28,260 --> 00:01:30,860 supplies , clogged U . S . Seaports and 31 00:01:30,860 --> 00:01:34,080 military installations . The surplus 32 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,050 Property Act of 1940 For allowed for 33 00:01:37,050 --> 00:01:39,810 the disbursement of unneeded goods and 34 00:01:39,810 --> 00:01:42,430 equipment to a state political 35 00:01:42,430 --> 00:01:46,180 subdivision of a state or tax supported 36 00:01:46,190 --> 00:01:49,490 organization . A patchwork of agencies 37 00:01:49,500 --> 00:01:51,990 and regional authorities emerged to 38 00:01:51,990 --> 00:01:54,157 help distribute the excess equipment . 39 00:01:54,540 --> 00:01:56,550 When the Defense supply agency was 40 00:01:56,550 --> 00:02:00,020 created in 1961 the agency inherited 41 00:02:00,030 --> 00:02:02,270 the Defense Logistics Services Center 42 00:02:02,510 --> 00:02:04,650 located in Battle Creek Michigan . 43 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,430 About 10 years later the Defense 44 00:02:07,430 --> 00:02:09,590 property disposal service joined D . 45 00:02:09,590 --> 00:02:13,260 LSC in michigan it was Defense 46 00:02:13,260 --> 00:02:16,260 Supply Agency , D . S . A . 47 00:02:16,740 --> 00:02:20,090 And but it was DLC . Defense Logistics 48 00:02:20,090 --> 00:02:23,260 services center and I started february 49 00:02:23,260 --> 00:02:27,230 4th 1963 and I was hired in as 50 00:02:27,230 --> 00:02:30,990 a clerk typist A . GS three . I made 51 00:02:30,990 --> 00:02:34,410 $3760 a year . 52 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:39,410 I was assigned to keep Punch and it 53 00:02:39,410 --> 00:02:43,190 was largely a male populated 54 00:02:43,190 --> 00:02:47,110 organization and in fact they had even 55 00:02:47,110 --> 00:02:50,250 a women's auxiliary that the women 56 00:02:50,250 --> 00:02:52,472 could join . That . We're working to be 57 00:02:52,472 --> 00:02:54,639 with the wives of all the managers and 58 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:57,590 stuff . We occupied the tower building 59 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:02,050 and this building was occupied by the 60 00:03:02,050 --> 00:03:05,690 Sixth Army Corps and Officers of Civil 61 00:03:05,690 --> 00:03:08,300 Defense Management . I remember 62 00:03:08,310 --> 00:03:10,477 especially during the Vietnam that was 63 00:03:10,477 --> 00:03:12,477 the early years . It was called the 64 00:03:12,477 --> 00:03:15,160 Apple . The excess personal property 65 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:18,830 listing . And we had a number of 66 00:03:18,830 --> 00:03:21,550 employees that sat in a room and took 67 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,400 telephone calls from the services and 68 00:03:24,410 --> 00:03:26,780 what items they would want out of that . 69 00:03:26,790 --> 00:03:29,820 And that was re utilization , nothing 70 00:03:29,820 --> 00:03:33,260 was computerized at that time . 71 00:03:33,270 --> 00:03:37,240 In 1972 Arkansas Senator 72 00:03:37,250 --> 00:03:39,210 john L . McLelland chaired 73 00:03:39,210 --> 00:03:41,260 congressional subcommittee hearings 74 00:03:41,340 --> 00:03:43,618 that reviewed the performance of D . O . 75 00:03:43,618 --> 00:03:46,520 D . S . Surplus property mission . The 76 00:03:46,530 --> 00:03:49,650 document cited numerous deficiencies or 77 00:03:49,650 --> 00:03:51,760 weaknesses in the inventory and 78 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:53,810 accountability of our wholesale 79 00:03:53,820 --> 00:03:56,970 military supply systems . In response 80 00:03:56,970 --> 00:03:59,137 to those recommendations . The Defense 81 00:03:59,137 --> 00:04:01,780 property disposal service was created 82 00:04:01,780 --> 00:04:05,450 september 1972 and inherited the 83 00:04:05,450 --> 00:04:07,790 surplus sales and property reuse 84 00:04:07,790 --> 00:04:09,970 missions from Defense Logistics 85 00:04:09,970 --> 00:04:13,530 Services center D . P . D . 86 00:04:13,540 --> 00:04:16,790 S . Grew to a workforce of nearly 6000 87 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,150 and quickly assumed management of a mix 88 00:04:19,150 --> 00:04:22,350 of more than 300 former army 89 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:25,320 Navy Air Force and combined property 90 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:28,020 disposal sites located at or near 91 00:04:28,030 --> 00:04:31,210 installations for renaming as defense 92 00:04:31,220 --> 00:04:34,990 property disposal offices . I 93 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,080 saw the first computer come to our 94 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,150 directorate . It was texas 95 00:04:40,150 --> 00:04:43,270 instrument and we had one computer , 96 00:04:43,270 --> 00:04:45,860 one little personal computer sitting on 97 00:04:45,860 --> 00:04:48,210 a desk that no one would touch . I 98 00:04:48,210 --> 00:04:50,550 worked with D . L . A . Disposition 99 00:04:50,550 --> 00:04:54,320 services for a little over 40 years 100 00:04:54,330 --> 00:04:57,970 all in Battle Creek . I was 101 00:04:57,970 --> 00:05:01,160 20 . My father said I would no longer 102 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,820 be covered by insurance . And 103 00:05:04,830 --> 00:05:07,052 so he said you have to , if you want to 104 00:05:07,052 --> 00:05:10,170 pursue a job which I had three part 105 00:05:10,170 --> 00:05:13,480 time jobs um He said go find a career 106 00:05:13,490 --> 00:05:16,300 with benefits . I was the GS two 107 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:19,630 temporary clerk typists in our human 108 00:05:19,630 --> 00:05:22,940 resource uh directorate . So my 109 00:05:22,940 --> 00:05:26,910 job was basically I typed Jooss 110 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:29,650 job offer announcements all day long 111 00:05:29,940 --> 00:05:31,970 and then shredded documents all 112 00:05:31,970 --> 00:05:35,010 afternoon . I started as a supply clerk 113 00:05:35,010 --> 00:05:37,066 and the directorate of cataloging in 114 00:05:37,066 --> 00:05:40,480 the operations division . And we had a 115 00:05:40,490 --> 00:05:44,430 large tub files of the DD 1 40 sixes 116 00:05:44,700 --> 00:05:46,940 which were descriptions and stock 117 00:05:46,940 --> 00:05:48,760 numbers . And I was pretty much 118 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,980 responsible for stamp stamping the sock 119 00:05:51,980 --> 00:05:53,924 numbers on the cards . And then we 120 00:05:53,924 --> 00:05:56,390 would file them in the tub files on the 121 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:59,980 third floor the fall of 1980 . 122 00:05:59,990 --> 00:06:03,610 And my business teacher asked me if I 123 00:06:03,610 --> 00:06:06,120 was interested in perhaps qualifying 124 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,670 for a student aid position at the 125 00:06:08,670 --> 00:06:11,080 federal center . And it was called the 126 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:13,850 state school program . It was at for at 127 00:06:13,850 --> 00:06:16,490 risk youth from lower income families 128 00:06:16,500 --> 00:06:19,800 and I qualified for every proposal 129 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,060 whenever we had a solicitation closing 130 00:06:22,140 --> 00:06:24,170 the offers would submit hard copy 131 00:06:24,170 --> 00:06:27,090 packages and sometimes their proposals 132 00:06:27,090 --> 00:06:30,770 would be like that sick . In 1985 the 133 00:06:30,780 --> 00:06:33,610 organization's name changed to Defense 134 00:06:33,620 --> 00:06:36,330 re utilization and marketing service or 135 00:06:36,330 --> 00:06:39,300 D . R . M . S . And field locations 136 00:06:39,300 --> 00:06:41,460 became defense re utilization and 137 00:06:41,460 --> 00:06:44,870 marketing offices or D . R . M . O . S . 138 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:48,860 During the organization's 25 years as D . 139 00:06:48,870 --> 00:06:51,460 R . M . S . It was considered A . D . L . 140 00:06:51,460 --> 00:06:54,190 A . Primary level field activity and 141 00:06:54,190 --> 00:06:56,410 continued providing the military with 142 00:06:56,410 --> 00:06:58,700 services for the disposal of material 143 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:00,982 no longer needed for national defense . 144 00:07:01,540 --> 00:07:04,000 Government auctioneers held local sales 145 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,020 at DRM OS through bid or live auction 146 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,430 with items often sold in smaller 147 00:07:09,430 --> 00:07:11,541 quantities that might appeal to local 148 00:07:11,541 --> 00:07:14,400 buyers . I have worked for delay 149 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:17,230 disposition services which started out 150 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:19,351 as a defense realization of marketing 151 00:07:19,351 --> 00:07:22,820 service for 33 years . And when I 152 00:07:22,820 --> 00:07:24,876 started everything was done manually 153 00:07:24,876 --> 00:07:27,400 and we would basically take everything 154 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:30,480 off a document and then go to the key 155 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,990 punch card machine . We had the big 156 00:07:32,990 --> 00:07:35,430 clunky keys and we punch everything out 157 00:07:35,430 --> 00:07:37,760 in the 80 card column format which is 158 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:39,982 being used today through the mill strip 159 00:07:39,982 --> 00:07:42,110 process that has never ever changed . 160 00:07:42,110 --> 00:07:44,240 It remains the same . I've been with 161 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,351 the government 33 years . 29 of those 162 00:07:46,351 --> 00:07:48,800 have been with the L . A . I started 163 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:50,967 the wage grade five driving a forklift 164 00:07:50,967 --> 00:07:52,744 stowing the property , you know 165 00:07:52,744 --> 00:07:54,967 releasing the property loading trucks . 166 00:07:54,967 --> 00:07:56,856 So opportunity came open to be an 167 00:07:56,856 --> 00:07:58,467 auctioneer because back then 168 00:07:58,467 --> 00:08:00,411 disposition services did their own 169 00:08:00,411 --> 00:08:02,633 auctions and we had our own auctioneers 170 00:08:02,633 --> 00:08:04,578 back in the day they would write a 171 00:08:04,578 --> 00:08:06,578 catalog and then we would advertise 172 00:08:06,578 --> 00:08:08,744 what we were selling , customers would 173 00:08:08,744 --> 00:08:10,800 come in and just like you'd go to an 174 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:12,633 estate sale nowadays or original 175 00:08:12,633 --> 00:08:14,689 auction . We would auction each item 176 00:08:14,689 --> 00:08:16,467 individually just like the same 177 00:08:16,467 --> 00:08:18,411 auctioneers you see on tv or those 178 00:08:18,411 --> 00:08:21,040 state type of cells as the pace of 179 00:08:21,050 --> 00:08:23,272 technological change accelerated in the 180 00:08:23,272 --> 00:08:25,300 nineties the end strength of the 181 00:08:25,300 --> 00:08:28,360 organization began to recede coinciding 182 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,030 with post Cold War drawdowns and base 183 00:08:31,030 --> 00:08:33,050 realignment and closure orders , 184 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:35,607 property receipt systems started going 185 00:08:35,607 --> 00:08:38,290 online and new automated tools and 186 00:08:38,290 --> 00:08:40,180 increased computing power allowed 187 00:08:40,180 --> 00:08:43,950 specialists to accomplish more As an 188 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:47,340 early adopter of the world Wide web . D . 189 00:08:47,350 --> 00:08:50,110 R . M . S . Laid a strong foundation 190 00:08:50,150 --> 00:08:52,470 for greater customer reach with the 191 00:08:52,470 --> 00:08:54,720 creation of a searchable online 192 00:08:54,730 --> 00:08:57,100 property database that eventually 193 00:08:57,100 --> 00:08:59,140 morphed into its re utilization 194 00:08:59,150 --> 00:09:02,160 transfer and donation and sales web 195 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:04,760 pages which allowed for online bidding . 196 00:09:05,740 --> 00:09:07,629 When you were brought in into the 197 00:09:07,629 --> 00:09:09,740 program . It was a GS seven target 11 198 00:09:09,790 --> 00:09:13,410 I'm currently a Gs 13 . One of the old 199 00:09:13,410 --> 00:09:16,250 timers . Now we did target marketing . 200 00:09:16,250 --> 00:09:19,270 We did advertising . We did cold 201 00:09:19,270 --> 00:09:21,580 calling . We did all those type of 202 00:09:21,580 --> 00:09:24,200 advertisements and then moved into when 203 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,910 I was doing marketing advertising , met 204 00:09:26,910 --> 00:09:29,930 with the guys scott riddle and rod 205 00:09:29,930 --> 00:09:32,500 musket at the time but they we did the 206 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:34,970 internet in the early nineties , this 207 00:09:34,970 --> 00:09:36,970 visit service was trying to promote 208 00:09:36,970 --> 00:09:39,026 itself to its customers to do things 209 00:09:39,026 --> 00:09:40,914 more cost effective . We stumbled 210 00:09:40,914 --> 00:09:43,248 across this thing called web technology . 211 00:09:43,248 --> 00:09:44,914 So we're talking to different 212 00:09:44,914 --> 00:09:47,440 universities that were kind of involved 213 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:49,551 in the development of this technology 214 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:51,751 and we stumbled across the University 215 00:09:51,751 --> 00:09:53,807 of Switzerland that actually had the 216 00:09:53,807 --> 00:09:55,696 software we could download some , 217 00:09:55,696 --> 00:09:57,918 everything was done by hand . Um but we 218 00:09:57,918 --> 00:10:00,180 knew that this technology would be a 219 00:10:00,190 --> 00:10:02,960 great way to get to your customers at 220 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:04,960 the time . This was before google . 221 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,190 This was before any type of ebay . Uh 222 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:10,920 even in an explorer was even in 223 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:12,864 existence at that time . And right 224 00:10:12,864 --> 00:10:14,976 after we got it running , we realized 225 00:10:14,976 --> 00:10:16,850 its potential with the color the 226 00:10:16,860 --> 00:10:18,749 pictures , the text that we could 227 00:10:18,749 --> 00:10:20,860 actually show on the screen . We were 228 00:10:20,860 --> 00:10:22,860 one of the first on the internet to 229 00:10:22,860 --> 00:10:24,860 have a searchable database online . 230 00:10:24,860 --> 00:10:26,971 Desert Storm brought in a new era for 231 00:10:26,971 --> 00:10:29,138 the organization . As they faced fresh 232 00:10:29,138 --> 00:10:31,910 challenges with providing support not 233 00:10:31,910 --> 00:10:34,077 only to customers in the United States 234 00:10:34,077 --> 00:10:36,190 but also to the U . S . Military in a 235 00:10:36,190 --> 00:10:39,150 conflict zone . Desert Storm . 236 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:43,360 I was a new contract specialist . I saw 237 00:10:43,370 --> 00:10:46,350 an impact on disposition services 238 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:50,080 and D . L . A . As a whole . Um You 239 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:52,191 know , we have been providing support 240 00:10:52,191 --> 00:10:55,790 to customers predominantly more at home 241 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:59,550 in times of peace . And so our level of 242 00:10:59,550 --> 00:11:02,690 contracting support grew exponentially 243 00:11:02,700 --> 00:11:05,070 and so some of the challenges for us 244 00:11:05,070 --> 00:11:08,570 was how can we provide the war fighters 245 00:11:08,570 --> 00:11:11,110 what they need when they need , but 246 00:11:11,110 --> 00:11:14,780 still be legally compliant . And so 247 00:11:14,790 --> 00:11:18,210 being able to go with the changes and 248 00:11:18,340 --> 00:11:21,230 bringing that flexibility was key . So 249 00:11:21,230 --> 00:11:23,397 that's something . And now it's pretty 250 00:11:23,397 --> 00:11:25,950 common day that we have O'Connor's 251 00:11:25,950 --> 00:11:28,040 support . You know , we're a global 252 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:30,590 footprint from the aftermath of the 253 00:11:30,590 --> 00:11:33,050 gulf war . Until the start of operation 254 00:11:33,050 --> 00:11:36,280 enduring freedom in Afghanistan , D . R . 255 00:11:36,290 --> 00:11:39,040 M . S was essentially happed its 256 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:41,590 physical infrastructure shrank from 257 00:11:41,590 --> 00:11:44,280 more than 200 field sites to about 100 258 00:11:44,290 --> 00:11:46,740 and manpower contracted from nearly 259 00:11:46,750 --> 00:11:49,650 4000 full time employees to less than 260 00:11:49,650 --> 00:11:53,400 2000 reductions took place even as the 261 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:55,320 remaining workforce continued to 262 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:58,130 process millions of customer turn ins 263 00:11:58,140 --> 00:12:00,630 originally worth tens of billions each 264 00:12:00,630 --> 00:12:02,760 year and ensure that controlled 265 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,350 property was dealt with responsibly . 266 00:12:06,340 --> 00:12:10,250 When I started in 1980 for our agency 267 00:12:10,250 --> 00:12:13,940 was almost 6000 strong 268 00:12:14,030 --> 00:12:16,960 and we had 100 and 80 sites worldwide , 269 00:12:16,970 --> 00:12:20,430 most of them full service . And as the 270 00:12:20,430 --> 00:12:23,280 business morphed and changed , We 271 00:12:23,290 --> 00:12:26,610 downsized . We are now about 1500 272 00:12:26,620 --> 00:12:30,400 approximately and we have very few 273 00:12:30,410 --> 00:12:33,130 full service sites in our agency . But 274 00:12:33,130 --> 00:12:35,580 we're still doing the same thing . More 275 00:12:35,580 --> 00:12:37,858 demands followed in the new millennium , 276 00:12:37,858 --> 00:12:40,040 lengthy conflicts in Iraq and 277 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:42,096 Afghanistan brought heavy deployment 278 00:12:42,096 --> 00:12:44,230 responsibilities for expeditionary 279 00:12:44,230 --> 00:12:46,890 personnel for the first time . Overall 280 00:12:46,890 --> 00:12:49,270 direction for DRM s became the 281 00:12:49,270 --> 00:12:51,530 responsibility of a senior executive 282 00:12:51,530 --> 00:12:54,410 service , civilian , private contract 283 00:12:54,410 --> 00:12:56,570 firms began executing the agency's 284 00:12:56,570 --> 00:12:59,340 public sales higher demand for 285 00:12:59,340 --> 00:13:01,620 transfers and donations arose from 286 00:13:01,620 --> 00:13:03,440 customers in law enforcement , 287 00:13:03,450 --> 00:13:06,190 firefighting , state and municipal 288 00:13:06,190 --> 00:13:08,210 government and humanitarian and 289 00:13:08,210 --> 00:13:12,140 disaster relief organizations . In 290 00:13:12,150 --> 00:13:15,250 2000 and 10 . D . RMS became D . L . A . 291 00:13:15,250 --> 00:13:18,460 Disposition services . I've been with 292 00:13:18,470 --> 00:13:21,760 the government for 39 years , 11 months . 293 00:13:21,790 --> 00:13:25,350 I went over to Iraq in 2010 . We had 294 00:13:25,350 --> 00:13:27,860 the reserve units there and we also had 295 00:13:27,860 --> 00:13:29,860 the third country nationals there . 296 00:13:29,860 --> 00:13:32,190 They were actually doing a lot of the 297 00:13:32,250 --> 00:13:34,750 email of the cutting up the Humvees and 298 00:13:34,750 --> 00:13:37,510 the email property . And one of the 299 00:13:37,510 --> 00:13:39,510 great things that we had over there 300 00:13:39,510 --> 00:13:41,732 that we don't have here , you had these 301 00:13:41,732 --> 00:13:45,270 crushers and they would crush and maul 302 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:48,550 the scrap . Oh that was amazing . 303 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,370 I started to work for disposition 304 00:13:51,370 --> 00:13:54,500 services in 1986 I was going to the 305 00:13:54,500 --> 00:13:56,960 local community college Kellogg 306 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:59,730 community college and I was taking um 307 00:13:59,740 --> 00:14:03,490 just some business classes . And uh at 308 00:14:03,490 --> 00:14:07,040 the time DRM s had a 309 00:14:07,050 --> 00:14:10,470 need for a stenographer . I deployed in 310 00:14:10,470 --> 00:14:14,150 2000 and 12 to Speicher Iraq and then 311 00:14:14,150 --> 00:14:17,460 in 2000 and 14 to bagram Afghanistan . 312 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:20,096 A little bit different operations in 313 00:14:20,096 --> 00:14:22,870 both in Speicher Iraq . Um We as 314 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:25,520 civilians and the crew that were there , 315 00:14:25,530 --> 00:14:28,120 we did the physical work and the labor . 316 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:30,650 So we did the receiving of the property 317 00:14:30,650 --> 00:14:32,960 from them . We did um you know , 318 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:34,960 screening and if there were a gmail 319 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,127 property . We did the physical cutting 320 00:14:37,127 --> 00:14:39,238 of that material and the scrapping of 321 00:14:39,238 --> 00:14:43,160 that material in bagram Afghanistan . 322 00:14:43,170 --> 00:14:45,560 We had contractors that did that . I 323 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:48,510 would say that heavy work for us . We 324 00:14:48,510 --> 00:14:50,566 went to bagram Afghanistan , there's 325 00:14:50,566 --> 00:14:52,677 not a site there's not anything we're 326 00:14:52,677 --> 00:14:54,880 living in wouldn't be huts , you know 327 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:57,260 20 by 40 wouldn't be huts . And the 328 00:14:57,260 --> 00:14:59,590 lead individual that knew about sites 329 00:14:59,590 --> 00:15:02,440 and such . His back went out within a 330 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:04,990 month . His back went out so that left 331 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,760 myself and another individual . He was 332 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:09,538 a GS seven . That was very very 333 00:15:09,538 --> 00:15:11,316 experienced as far as sites are 334 00:15:11,316 --> 00:15:13,482 concerned . You know , forklift driver 335 00:15:13,482 --> 00:15:15,649 really knew that kind of thing but not 336 00:15:15,649 --> 00:15:17,816 the other . So we just started pulling 337 00:15:17,816 --> 00:15:19,927 out the manual , we went page by page 338 00:15:19,927 --> 00:15:21,927 and we figured it out . And when we 339 00:15:21,927 --> 00:15:23,982 opened the gates to say hey you know 340 00:15:23,982 --> 00:15:26,204 here's duomo baghram and we're open our 341 00:15:26,204 --> 00:15:28,038 support through the humanitarian 342 00:15:28,038 --> 00:15:30,650 assistance program was to the Afghan 343 00:15:30,650 --> 00:15:33,290 civilians . And when I mean civilians , 344 00:15:33,300 --> 00:15:36,290 it was not just anybody , it was 345 00:15:36,300 --> 00:15:39,250 orphanages , schools , it was projects 346 00:15:39,540 --> 00:15:42,200 they had to meet a certain criteria as 347 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:45,110 determined by the State Department none 348 00:15:45,110 --> 00:15:47,630 of the property went to the Afghanistan 349 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:50,400 military because they got it through 350 00:15:50,410 --> 00:15:53,660 foreign military sales program with the 351 00:15:53,660 --> 00:15:55,771 law enforcement support office or the 352 00:15:55,771 --> 00:15:57,716 less . So the lesson program I was 353 00:15:57,716 --> 00:16:00,720 there for approximately eight years and 354 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:04,710 that program dramatically um evolved . 355 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:07,230 It was a program that delay disposition 356 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:09,296 inherited and it's been around since 357 00:16:09,296 --> 00:16:12,840 1991 and the majority of the property 358 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:15,090 that law enforcement received from D . 359 00:16:15,090 --> 00:16:17,570 L . A . Disposition services . Our 360 00:16:17,570 --> 00:16:19,860 common items , anything you can buy at 361 00:16:19,860 --> 00:16:22,670 a store off the shelf . But offsets 362 00:16:22,670 --> 00:16:24,830 their budget . It helps the whole 363 00:16:24,830 --> 00:16:27,810 community and there's a rigorous 364 00:16:27,820 --> 00:16:29,980 application process that they have to 365 00:16:29,980 --> 00:16:33,050 get to get the military type property . 366 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:35,696 We're doing a compliance review . We 367 00:16:35,696 --> 00:16:38,260 showed up and the police chief just 368 00:16:38,260 --> 00:16:40,427 started off saying how he loves me and 369 00:16:40,427 --> 00:16:42,593 he loves the program and he took me to 370 00:16:42,593 --> 00:16:44,816 an armored vehicle that he got to . The 371 00:16:44,816 --> 00:16:46,927 lesser program that he pulled up on a 372 00:16:46,927 --> 00:16:49,093 normal routine call and someone opened 373 00:16:49,093 --> 00:16:51,950 up fire with him on an Ak 47 and it's 374 00:16:51,950 --> 00:16:53,950 shaped saved his life . He normally 375 00:16:53,950 --> 00:16:56,210 takes a patrol car . He had no idea why 376 00:16:56,210 --> 00:16:58,210 he took the armored vehicle on that 377 00:16:58,210 --> 00:17:01,310 call and um which is very grateful . Um 378 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:03,487 and that really hit home to me and and 379 00:17:03,487 --> 00:17:06,800 the folks I was with as the country 380 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:08,967 moved deeper into the new millennium , 381 00:17:08,967 --> 00:17:11,133 no one could predict the missions that 382 00:17:11,133 --> 00:17:13,078 would give the team at D . L . A . 383 00:17:13,078 --> 00:17:14,689 Disposition services another 384 00:17:14,689 --> 00:17:16,860 opportunity to show their skills and 385 00:17:16,860 --> 00:17:20,600 expertise . And then on top of 386 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:23,010 harvey hit the other three hurricanes 387 00:17:23,010 --> 00:17:25,350 right after it . So we were busy and we 388 00:17:25,350 --> 00:17:28,170 would work till late at night , 389 00:17:28,180 --> 00:17:29,958 sometimes 10 o'clock at night , 390 00:17:29,958 --> 00:17:32,236 sometimes midnight that's not uncommon . 391 00:17:32,540 --> 00:17:34,760 What happens is if a site , a field 392 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:36,871 site comes in with items that we need 393 00:17:36,871 --> 00:17:38,982 because we'll send out items needed . 394 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:41,207 The field site comes back and we'll go 395 00:17:41,207 --> 00:17:43,207 check with the customers say do you 396 00:17:43,207 --> 00:17:45,373 need it If yes they bring it on record 397 00:17:45,373 --> 00:17:47,484 as well . As soon as they bring it on 398 00:17:47,484 --> 00:17:49,429 record , we must put that order in 399 00:17:49,429 --> 00:17:51,318 after five p.m. Each day when the 400 00:17:51,318 --> 00:17:54,730 inventory updates when the pandemic 401 00:17:54,740 --> 00:17:57,730 first hit masks were in short supply . 402 00:17:57,730 --> 00:18:01,480 So we pulled mask back from one of our 403 00:18:01,490 --> 00:18:03,800 sales contractors , we froze those 404 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:05,856 items , pulled them back and so they 405 00:18:05,856 --> 00:18:07,856 got into the right hands and helped 406 00:18:07,856 --> 00:18:11,370 delay with that relief effort . People 407 00:18:11,370 --> 00:18:13,703 think that downsizing was just recently . 408 00:18:13,703 --> 00:18:15,926 Actually the big downsizing was in 2013 409 00:18:15,926 --> 00:18:18,037 and 2014 where the amount of property 410 00:18:18,037 --> 00:18:20,259 that we were moving out there was about 411 00:18:20,259 --> 00:18:23,490 three million pounds a week . It was 412 00:18:23,490 --> 00:18:25,212 sold to local companies within 413 00:18:25,212 --> 00:18:27,268 Afghanistan . The big thing there is 414 00:18:27,340 --> 00:18:29,507 you don't want to flood the market but 415 00:18:29,507 --> 00:18:31,618 you want to stimulate the market with 416 00:18:31,618 --> 00:18:33,673 those recyclable type of materials . 417 00:18:35,540 --> 00:18:37,680 Looking back , it's easy to see how 418 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:39,458 collective lessons learned from 419 00:18:39,458 --> 00:18:41,569 hundreds of deployments have shaped a 420 00:18:41,569 --> 00:18:44,140 workforce that now has a keen sense of 421 00:18:44,140 --> 00:18:45,973 how to operate far away from the 422 00:18:45,973 --> 00:18:48,240 traditional office while still helping 423 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:50,073 military and whole of government 424 00:18:50,073 --> 00:18:52,760 customers . And if you look at the last 425 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:54,704 25 years , we averaged about three 426 00:18:54,704 --> 00:18:56,816 million receipts a year . That hasn't 427 00:18:56,816 --> 00:18:59,180 changed , which changes the technology 428 00:18:59,190 --> 00:19:01,134 and the criticality of the type of 429 00:19:01,134 --> 00:19:03,220 property that we received and the 430 00:19:03,220 --> 00:19:05,220 efficiencies that we found over the 431 00:19:05,220 --> 00:19:07,387 years using technology to receive that 432 00:19:07,387 --> 00:19:10,700 type of property . I think of defense , 433 00:19:10,890 --> 00:19:14,590 property disposal services , 434 00:19:15,140 --> 00:19:16,973 defense realization of marketing 435 00:19:16,973 --> 00:19:19,410 services , D . L . A . Disposition 436 00:19:19,410 --> 00:19:22,490 services , powerful names . 437 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:25,730 They got that way through an excellent 438 00:19:25,730 --> 00:19:29,050 reputation which is based upon the work 439 00:19:29,060 --> 00:19:32,770 that people have done since 1972 and 440 00:19:32,780 --> 00:19:35,510 every single worker should feel good 441 00:19:35,510 --> 00:19:37,732 about what they do and they should have 442 00:19:37,732 --> 00:19:40,120 a positive attitude and know that they 443 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:43,770 make a difference in the world . If its 444 00:19:43,770 --> 00:19:46,090 1st 50 years have revealed anything , 445 00:19:46,100 --> 00:19:48,140 it's that the team at D . L . A . 446 00:19:48,150 --> 00:19:50,720 Disposition services is resilient , 447 00:19:50,730 --> 00:19:53,840 dedicated and ready to adapt to support 448 00:19:53,850 --> 00:19:57,050 any mission . Yeah . D . L . A . 449 00:19:57,060 --> 00:20:00,000 Disposition services reflecting on our 450 00:20:00,010 --> 00:20:01,960 past to build our future .