Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2023

A 2009 report commissioned by the Army Environmental Policy Institute (AEPI) developed a methodology for calculating casualty factors for fuel and water resupply convoys in theater operations. The authors demonstrated the methodology based on historical data from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2011

To cut down on convoys trucking fuel to forward operating bases, as well as to implement the Department of the Navy’s vision for energy efficiency, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and elements within the US Marine Corps (USMC) have successfully demonstrated their goal to reduce petroleum and energy usage in remote locations in Afghanistan.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2010

Logistics train in Afghanistan. Phase One of the experiment simulated the energy and water demands of a Marine unit at forward operating bases similar to those in Afghanistan. Conway has been the catalyst for the Corps’ current work in energy conservation. Source: USMC. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

aircraft over Afghanistan, 8 Dec 2010. At least 80% of land convoys in Afghanistan are for transporting fuel to warfighters, Lynn said. From FY 2003 to FY 2007 in Iraq and Afghanistan, a total of more than 3,000 Army personnel and contractors were wounded or killed in action from attacks on fuel and water resupply convoys.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2012

Today, 185 countries have stopped using leaded gasoline; six others, including Afghanistan, Iraq and North Korea, plan to phase it out in the next two years. Boyle and his students began collecting water and coral samples from the Indian Ocean three years ago. It’s a bit of a puzzle that we’re working on,” Boyle says.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Marine Corps used the autonomous K-Max helicopters for resupply missions in Afghanistan. Indago flies above structures engulfed in flames and maps out the hot zones, on which K-Max then drops flame retardant or water. K-Max and one of Lockheed Martin’s small UAVs, the Indago , have been used to fight fires.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Each of the three routes from these two bodies of water passes through a “choke point” (from the Red Sea, through the Suez Canal to Europe and through the Mandeb Strait to Asia, from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz). Dalan McEndree has a BA in history, MA in European History, M.Phil.

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