# DLA NewsWire

/ Published Oct. 26, 2018

**DLA Troop Support Provides Food, Generators, Other Materials for Hurricane Florence Relief Efforts**Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support employees were prepared for Hurricane Florence well in advance of it hitting the coast of the Carolinas Sept. 14.                DLA Troop Support provides food, generators, other materials for Hurricane Florence relief efforts                            Soldiers  and volunteers unload MREs off a truck in support of the Hurricane Florence relief efforts at Lumberton, North Carolina, Sept. 20, 2018.             SHARE IMAGE:Download ImageImage DetailsPhoto By: Photo by Army Spc. Andrea Salgado RiveraVIRIN: 180920-A-XH098-0045“When reports of the storm and its possible impact began surfacing, the DLA Troop Support team began working with our customers and vendors to ensure supplies needed for victims in the affected areas would be available,” Navy Capt. William Clarke, DLA Troop Support Operations and Plans director, said. The team filled requirements for the Federal Emergency Management Agency in support of both federal and local needs. DLA Troop Support materials provided to FEMA include:
      - 107 generators
      - 167,000 cases of Meals, Ready-to-Eat
      - 1,296 flotation devices and gloves
      - 1,320 waders  

Additionally, DLA Troop Support’s Subsistence supply chain provided 31,000 cases of MREs and 47,000 cases of bottled water for Department of Defense forces deployed to provide aid. Subsistence also coordinated with DLA Distribution to ensure the delivery of more than 16,000 cases of MREs to Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

*— Janeen T. HayesDLA Troop Support Public Affairs Read the full story*

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**Records Overhaul Helps Agency Comply with Archives Standards**Cleaning up and restoring contaminated soil and groundwater at the 908-acre Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Center in San Joaquin, California, is important, but so is properly storing the paper records of that effort.The DLA Installation Operations offices in San Joaquin underwent a records management overhaul July 16-Aug. 3 in which the Environmental Division consolidated 350 boxes of records into 150 after organizing and indexing them. Lee Spikes, records officer for the component, conducted on-site training and evaluations at the center, prompting employees to clean up records that had been building up.The records, which document the Environmental Installation Restoration Program at the center, were not being kept according to National Archives and Records Administration standards. They were disorganized and stored in unapproved boxes inside an old outdoor container.Had this not been addressed, “the paper would have slowly degraded from moisture, excess heat and possible infestation — losing the value they add to possible future litigation and Freedom of Information Act requests,” Spikes said.During the overhaul, personnel put the records in approved boxes and moved them into a climate-controlled area. This will preserve the documents and ensure they’re available for the required 50 years post-cleanup. 

*— Amber McSherryDLA Information OperationsRead the full story*