The Defense Logistics Agency supplies the nationαs military services and several civilian agencies with the critical resources they need to accomplish their worldwide missions. DLA provides wide-ranging logistical support for peacetime and wartime operations, as well as emergency preparedness and humanitarian missions. Since its creation in 1961, DLA has grown to become a worldwide logistics combat support operation. DLA is headquartered just outside Washington, D.C., and has a staff of about 21,000 civilian and military employees working in 48 states and 28 foreign countries. DLA does not have a presence in Iowa or Vermont. DLA supplies almost every consumable item Americaαs military services need to operate, from meals to jet fuel. In short, if Americaαs forces can eat it, wear it, drive it, or burn it, chances are that DLA helps provide it. DLA also helps dispose of materiel and equipment that is no longer needed. DLA has supported every major war and contingency operation in the past four decades, from the Vietnam War to Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom

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