Detailed to fuel truck duty

March 10, 2016

Transporting, loading and unloading fuel is no easy task and that goes double for U.S. solders and airmen, who must refuel vehicles in combat zones and aircraft on fast-moving air bases. The 957th Quartermaster Company (Petroleum Supply) recently showed how it gets done on the ground during combat support training in New Jersey earlier this month, while airmen from the 51st Logistics Readiness Squadron demonstrated their flight-line refueling prowess at Osan Air Base in the Republic of Korea. (All photos courtesy of the U.S. military)

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Sean Kilcarr is a former longtime FleetOwner senior editor who wrote for the publication from 2000 to 2018. He served as editor-in-chief from 2017 to 2018.

 

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