CASEY GARRISON South Korea - Red Cloud Garrison took delivery of 39,000 gallons of JP8 fuel from a new railhead facility March 16 on Casey Garrison. The new delivery point enables Red Cloud Garrison to take delivery from railway cars specially made for transporting fuel oil and gasoline.
What makes this delivery special is the new delivery pumps and receiving joints installed for receiving fuel from railway cars.
Until March 16 Red Cloud Garrison received fuel oil and gasoline from tank trucks. Before the tank trucks, the garrison received the oil and gasoline delivered in 55-gallon drums.
"This type of fuel delivery has never happened before now," said Don Wheeler, Red Cloud Garrison's acting director of logistics. "Before now it was always trucks that brought the fuel oil and gasoline to Casey Garrison's fuel tank farm. Back in the day it was hauled in by Korean Service Corps members literally on their backs."
The fuel oil and gasoline delivery point had to be modified to be able to receive delivery from railway cars.
"We had to install under-car refueling arms and valves of a special kind to avoid spilling the fuel during the transfer from the cars to the tank farm," Wheeler said. "The most important impact of this type of delivery is the consistent high level of fuel available to fighting vehicles; the fuel level in the tank farm will stay somewhat the same with this amount of fuel coming in on a regular basis as opposed to trucks bringing in tank trailers with smaller amounts of fuel."
Staff Sgt. Brenda Claiborne supervises the hook up of the new receiving joints and delivery of fuel oil and gasoline.
"I am responsible for making sure the railway cars have the correct level of fuel for delivery before it is transferred to the tank farm," Claiborne said. "After recording the level in the railway car, I will supervise the hook up and delivery."
We sure are making history, Wheeler said. We would like to thank Yi, Un Man, president of the Hyman Co. for helping to arrange this delivery today.
"We installed the point adapters to the railhead so fuel oil and gasoline could be delivered by railway cars," Yi said. "We installed them in two day's time. This is a much faster delivery system than taking delivery from trucks. The rail cars can move faster by rail than trucks moving through traffic. The rail cars also carry much more fuel per car than older types of rail cars or trucks. Our cars hold more than 13,000 gallons as opposed to 10,000 for earlier rail cars and trucks."
Yi continued to say this type of delivery is safer and faster than any other type of fuel delivery. The new Korean rail cars for fuel oil and gasoline delivery have larger drafting ports and a high tech venting system, which allows the flow of fuel to move much faster than older systems.
"These new installed pumps will pump out 13,000 gallons of fuel in less than 30 minutes," he said.
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