European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 2007 stars and stripes Page 3 dwell time Doest apply to individual gis by John Vandiver stars and stripes Germany Troy Tweed is new to the 1st armoured divisions company 1st 6th but he finds himself in the same Situa Tion As Lon serving members of the unit who Are scheduled for a return to Iraq Well before receiving their full year of rest at just like company Tweed re turned from his last deployment in at the Tweed was serving with the 1st Battal 36th which was part of the 1st ads now inactivated 1st Tweed said Friday that he is one of Many former 1st brigade soldiers who Are slated to Rede ploy Between three and four months Early because of their new assignments with the 2nd Bri Gade out of army guidelines Only address so when brigades inactivate theres a Chance troops deploy prematurely i think some of the soldiers got a raw it feels like the individual situation of sol Diers int taken into youre just a said who already has done four Tours downrange two in two in said Hes Fine with doing a fifth he would just prefer that he and other soldiers get the dwell time they from infantry soldiers to Cooks and a drove of former 1st brigade soldiers have been As signed to some have already arrived others Are still on the about five former 1st brigade soldiers have been assigned to the 16s company according to members of the there could be More soldiers army Europe on Friday could not provide statistics quantifying How Many former 1st Bri Gade soldiers will be deployed be fore receiving their 12 months of dwell in recent much Atten Tion has been Given to the plight of soldiers in the roughly is member company which will miss a third straight Christ Mas if it deploys three months the Early deployment of the would be at Odds with the pentagons policy that no unit returns to Iraq before 12 months at soldiers like fall through the cracks since the policy on dwell time applies to units and not individual when a brigade there is the potential for Large numbers of soldiers to be impacted by pre mature Usa eur officials have said dwell time is a major Factor when assigning soldiers to deploying but that the Mission must Al ways be the top the Chal Lenge is balancing the require ments of the which is rotating units into and out of War with an individual replace ment and sometimes those two interests with company it is unclear whether the unit will indeed head downrange in if the unit is to Usa eur first must submit a special waiver re quest to the which then must be reviewed and approved by Secretary of defense Robert As of the Penta gon still had not received such a Usa eur continues to be silent on whether it in tends to seek the arguing that such communications Are not to be made on company a soldiers said they have not been informed of any changes regarding their scheduled november deploy stars and stripes reporter Kevin dough erty contributed to this email John Vandiver at recycling setup lets Mildenhall use old fuel for base heating by Bryan Mitchell stars and stripes Raf England As they is the Mother of it appears legislation also May Spur and a whole lot of spare Industrial parts Doest for the air Force has benefited from a Jet refuelling recycling program that saw a Pri vate British Energy firm refine and resell the commodity As household heating the program saved the air Force the expense and hassle of disposing of its unusable Jet fuel and made the firm a hefty both sides were but when the British govern ment passed new regulations in 2005 that required Jet fuel to be disposed of As hazardous the comfortable collusion be tween the air Force and the Brit ish fuel recycling firm ended and the air Force Sud Denly found itself stuck with the expense of disposing of the enter Paul a 46 year old ministry of defence employee who works As a technical charge hand in the fuels depart ment of the 100th civil Engineer ing based on his own rudimentary preliminary testing and endowed with a Good Deal of ingenuity he set out to construct a device that could Recycle the unusable Jet fuel on base into heating i had already experimented with running waste fuel in some of our pumps and compressors with Good so i knew we had a Chance to make it Murfitt a simple pitch to the civil Engi Neering Squadron commander resulted in a and Murfitt got to work cannibalizing spare or unused components on base to construct a fuel recycling photos by Bryan Mitchell stars and stripes ministry of defence civilian employee Paul stands before a fuel recycling seen at which he designed on Raf ii we try not to lose any fuel expensive Paul 100th civil engineering squad Iron fuels department worker it was amazing How much stuff and spare parts we really had laying around this he i could not have done it for so cheap without All the parts we got for the system is fairly straight for the waste which comes from the aircraft fuel tanks and Runoff from the underground reservoirs collected in More than 200 is collected daily and run through a filtration Tern that takes but a few hours to Complete the first the fuel is often filtered several times to ensure it reaches a purity the fluid often goes in resembling River water and comes out pure enough to sup ply the base heating we try not to lose any fuel Murfitt its expensive Deputy base Engineer pan Solo said the project attracted the Atten Tion of Ron the air forces civilian special assistant of the new efficiency seeking smart Ops 21 during a re cent visit to Raf he said it was one of the most exciting concepts that Hes seen on his tour of air Force Soto it is exciting because weve done it for so Little and can save a More relaxed regulations on Dis posing of Jet fuel in other parts of the world where the air Force operates Means the program is not applicable the savings on Raf Mildenhall Are with the air Force paying per gallon to buy heating fuel and per gallon to dispose of used Jet every gallon Murfitt contraption can Recycle saves the base right now we just want to make sure this project works As Well As we think it does and if Well see who else is interest Soto Emall Bryan Mitchell at