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EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska - Senior Airman Andre Brown was hand selected by his leadership to attend the Army Petroleum Laboratory course in Fort Lee, Virginia, from Nov. 10 to Dec. 4, 2015.
Brown, a 354th Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels laboratory technician, said he was performing well in his duties and had just tacked on Senior Airman Below-the-Zone when his leadership told him he was selected to attend this course.
While attending the school, Brown learned how to conduct fuel tests the way the Army operates.
“I got to see how my job differs from service to service,” Brown said.
Browns typical day-to-day Air Force duties include drawing fuel samples and conducting several types of tests. One of these tests is the bottle method, which the Army does differently from the Air Force.
“The bottle method is used to monitor and minimize contamination in a fuel system and provides a means to quantify the amount of particulate matter present in fuel,” Brown explained.
To conduct the test, Brown would filter fuel through a pad, then weigh the pad to see how much particulate matter is present in that fuel sample.
“The Air Force uses a brown gallon jug to conduct this test,” Brown said. “It’s so the sun can’t get through, but the Army uses cylinders and puts fuel through to filter it.”
Brown also explained the Air Force includes a filtration time test during their bottle method test while the Army completes the bottle method test before they go on to complete the filtration time test.
According to Brown, Fort Wainwright doesn’t have a lab function, so several of their units bring fuels to Eielson to get tested. With the training Brown has gone through, it’s a lot easier to help out with this.
During the course, Brown said a challenging part was learning all different ranks from sister services.
“My teachers were a Marine gunnery sergeant, an Army staff sergeant and a civilian,” Brown said. “It was a learning process being at a joint school.”
A lieutenant and a couple sergeants from Ft. Wainwright recently brought samples to be tested.
“Using the training from this course, it was a lot easier to explain to them what we were doing in their terms and compare it to the books they use to help accomplish the mission,” Brown said.
| Date Taken: | 02.01.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 02.01.2016 14:38 |
| Story ID: | 187581 |
| Location: | EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, ALASKA, US |
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