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# Former DLA Disposition Services deployer memorialized

By Public AffairsDLA Disposition Services

                Columbus, Ohio  –              
***Taken from reporting by DLA Land and Maritime Public Affairs***

Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritimepaid a final tribute to one if its own Jan. 21, renaming a newly renovatedbuilding to honor a fallen hero.

In front of its namesake’s family members, friends andco-workers, the Stephen F. Byus Community Center was dedicated in a ceremony onthe installation.

Byus served two tours in Southwest Asia as a mobilized NavyReserve sailor serving with DLA Disposition Services before his final missionin 2014.

Byus was a civilian supervisory supply specialist with DLALand and Maritime in July 2014 when he volunteered to deploy to help the Afghanmilitary improve its maintenance and supply systems.  

On Sept. 16, 2014, his two-vehicle convoy, carryingpersonnel to downtown Kabul to brief the Afghan minister of defense forlogistics, was attacked.  He became thefirst DLA employee killed in the decade-long war. He was 39.

"Stephen Byus will certainly be an enduring figure inthe noble history of DLA Land and Maritime,” said Navy Rear Adm. John King,commander of DLA Land and Maritime. “After today's dedication of the CommunityCenter in his name, he will forever be a permanent part of this entireinstallation” 

His earlier military deployments were to Iraq, where heserved as a petty officer 2nd class with DLA Disposition Services in 2004 andagain to Iraq during 2010, serving as a petty officer 1st class in a team ofreservists based out of Columbus. At that time he was the team’s leading pettyofficer for administration and supervised four sailors. 

Byus began working for DLA Land and Maritime as a civilianin July 2008, through the DSCC Corporate Intern Program. It was said that hehelped revitalize the resolution specialist employee-development team andimproved the division’s audit readiness.

The 3,000-square-foot Byus Center opened in fall 2014,following extensive renovation of a structure dating to World War I. Thestate-of-the-art facility can accommodate group conferences, social functionsand large meetings.

"The naming of this building is not to commemorate hisdeath but, rather, to remind us of what Stephen Byus accomplished while he wasalive,” King said. “My hope is for this community center to be a place forfun—a place where bonds are cemented but also a place where those coming here willrecognize our desire to acknowledge those who have sacrificed so much for ourfreedom and that they will be encouraged to place the same importance on thisbuilding as we do here today."

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