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File: 111396_aacvt_24.txtFUELS Fuel support within the AOR was an enormous undertaking. In addition to supporting 1,229 US aircraft, fuels personnel also supported other services and allied aircraft. Fuel was issued free of charge by the Saudi government. It was observed by AF fuel experts this was the purest jet fuel they had ever seen. Since Desert Shield-Storm began, over 890 million gallons of jet fuel were consumed. To store and issue this much fuel, over 100 R-14s, Air Transportable Hydrant Refueling System, 200 R-9 Refuelers and over seven hundred 50,000 gallon fuel bladders were employed. In addition, USCENTAF fuels personnel coordinated several interoperability fuels issues with our Saudi hosts and USCENTCOM. These issues ranged from loaning the Saudis R-14s, arranging off shore tanker deliveries; arranging fuel resupply with tanker aircraft at deployed locations, assuring fuel guality, and installing and training on the use of fuels mobility support equipment. In all, over 111,000 US and allied combat sorties were flown as a result of fuel support by USCENTAF. Also, our fuels personnel managed/coordinated use of the Aerial Bulk Fuel Delivery System to move over 300,000 gallons of fuel to sites as far north as Kuwait in support of allied forces. The initial cadre of personnel to establish the Directorate of Supply was defined by USCENTAF Rapid Reaction Plan 1301. Sixteen supply personnel and three fuels personnel arrived to guide force beddown and establish supply programs. In a short time, six more
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