WEBVTT 00:00.009 --> 00:02.231 My rank is Warrant officer one Courtney 00:02.231 --> 00:04.398 Miller . Uh I'm a 923 Alpha which is a 00:04.398 --> 00:06.453 petroleum systems technician and I'm 00:06.453 --> 00:08.398 with Alpha company 553 under First 00:08.398 --> 00:10.565 Cavalry Division Sustainment Brigade . 00:10.565 --> 00:12.676 We're out here to improve the flow of 00:12.676 --> 00:14.620 distribution of petroleum products 00:14.620 --> 00:16.787 across the uh area of responsibility . 00:16.889 --> 00:19.056 Uh Right now in BPT A , we're focusing 00:19.056 --> 00:21.056 on moving the Scats to a more ideal 00:21.056 --> 00:23.278 location so that they're not going back 00:23.278 --> 00:25.445 and forth wasting money . Uh We wanted 00:25.445 --> 00:27.667 to put it in the prime location for our 00:27.667 --> 00:29.722 biggest uh consumer of the fuel . So 00:29.722 --> 00:29.424 the army is gonna be saving thousands 00:29.434 --> 00:31.656 of dollars , um somewhere in the higher 00:31.656 --> 00:33.805 uh uh upper ranks of 100 and 20 K a 00:33.814 --> 00:35.944 year by doing this move . Um alone on 00:35.955 --> 00:38.744 the hems , we spend about $3000 within 00:38.755 --> 00:40.977 a quarter . Just the hets filling up to 00:40.977 --> 00:43.144 go from here to the track motor pool . 00:43.144 --> 00:45.477 So by moving it to the track motor pool , 00:45.477 --> 00:45.430 we're saving the army a lot of money in 00:45.439 --> 00:47.495 all honesty , started in first class 00:47.495 --> 00:49.717 mcdougal , my NCO IC um noticed that we 00:49.717 --> 00:51.772 were wasting a lot of time by having 00:51.772 --> 00:53.995 the fuelers come down here and refill . 00:53.995 --> 00:56.217 Um He split the idea to me , it sounded 00:56.217 --> 00:58.383 great . So we started looking into the 00:58.383 --> 00:57.790 logistics . Uh We also didn't want to 00:57.799 --> 00:59.966 cost the army too much money to do the 00:59.966 --> 01:02.077 move in itself . So we looked at ways 01:02.077 --> 01:04.188 that we could reduce and use internal 01:04.188 --> 01:06.299 assets to do this move . Uh And , and 01:06.299 --> 01:06.169 we were able to do it for the most part 01:06.180 --> 01:08.402 without any outside help . We were able 01:08.402 --> 01:10.458 to work with Western Global to do it 01:10.458 --> 01:12.680 within the contract , uh constraints of 01:12.680 --> 01:14.847 our uh maintenance contract . So we're 01:14.847 --> 01:14.690 not paying anything additional to move 01:14.699 --> 01:16.810 the Scats to Western Global . We were 01:16.810 --> 01:19.032 able to utilize the Mayor Cell in order 01:19.032 --> 01:20.866 to get the uh crane and forklift 01:20.866 --> 01:22.921 support and then we were able to use 01:22.921 --> 01:25.088 our sister unit under uh 553 battalion 01:25.088 --> 01:27.310 656 to hold the fuel so we could do the 01:27.310 --> 01:29.421 move . Yeah . So we are gonna save uh 01:29.421 --> 01:31.643 the taxpayers a lot of money . Um We're 01:31.643 --> 01:33.866 also gonna save a lot of uh time on the 01:33.866 --> 01:33.139 soldiers . It was a lot of wasted time 01:33.150 --> 01:35.150 going back and forth . So with this 01:35.150 --> 01:37.317 move , we save golf company and any of 01:37.317 --> 01:39.372 the Fs CS attached a lot of time and 01:39.372 --> 01:41.483 energy with moving , moving the Scats 01:41.483 --> 01:43.650 to their ideal location . Uh So like I 01:43.650 --> 01:43.410 said , working with sister units in 01:43.419 --> 01:45.860 order to make this happen , um We did 01:45.870 --> 01:47.926 have one little hiccup where we were 01:47.926 --> 01:50.259 scheduled to use three flatbed trailers , 01:50.259 --> 01:52.314 but only one could actually come out 01:52.314 --> 01:54.537 here through communication was the only 01:54.537 --> 01:53.660 way we were still able to make this 01:53.669 --> 01:55.891 happen . So as long as you reach across 01:55.891 --> 01:58.169 what you know , is within your control , 01:58.169 --> 02:00.225 the , the things that you know , are 02:00.225 --> 01:59.779 right at your immediate level , you can 01:59.790 --> 02:02.012 make anything happen . You just have to 02:02.012 --> 02:02.440 know where to look .