One of the values the United States Army most seeks in its soldiers is accountability. Accountability …show more content…
An unreliable person will never be promoted. Reliability also has intrinsic value from the knowledge that one is trusted by others.
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. 27, 2014) -- The U.S. Army is testing systems to improve how fuel is monitored and tracked across the battlefield, officials said. Scott Nielsen, a project engineer with the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, said the current system for fuel accountability and visibility in a tactical environment has areas in need of improvement. The Army stores fuel in large collapsible tanks, with capacities up to 210,000 gallons that can be connected to create a storage and distribution system point holding more than one million gallons. To determine the fuel system's volume, Soldiers use a level string and yardstick to measure the tank's height that corresponds to a strapping chart. Each height increment corresponds to a specific volume. Collapsible tank systems, which have been used since the late 1970s, present challenges in accurately determining the volume, Nielsen said. Several factors can introduce errors: temperature variances are not accounted for, tanks may