Chris Watson, terminal manager with Maytag Aircraft Corporation, performs an hourly inspection of the fuel storage tanks March 23, 2012, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. The checks are performed to ensure there is no leakage or pooling of water in the storage area. Such leaks could present an environmental and safety hazard. (U.S. Air Force photo/Roland Balik)

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Airman 1st Class Trevor Kuhns, a hydrant operator with the 436th Logistics Readiness Squadron, turns a fuel valve in a fuels pump house March 23, 2012, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Pump houses filter and distribute fuel throughout the flight line to awaiting fuel-pumping trucks. (U.S. Air Force photo/Roland Balik)

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Senior Airman Timothy Campbell, a fuel lab technician with the 436th Logistics Readiness Squadron, draws a sample of Jet A fuel from a pipe March 27, 2012, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. The sample will be tested at the fuels lab for impurities and contaminates before being pumped to the flight line for a re-fuel. (U.S. Air Force photo/Roland Balik)

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Senior Airman Robert Gilmore, fuels lab technician with the 436th Logisitcs Readiness Squadron, inspects a sample of fuel to ensure purity and quality March 23, 2012, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Fuel is filtered and inspected numerous times to eliminate all solid substances and contaminates before it is pumped into aircraft. Such contaminates could have a disastrous effect on engine function if left intact. (U.S. Air Force photo/Roland Balik)

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Airman 1st Class Katelyn Dittmer, left, and Airman 1st Class Jacob Heppler fuel distribution operators with the 436th Logistics Readiness Squadron, pump fuel into an aircraft March 23, 2012, on the Dover Air Force Base, Del., flightline. Fuel is pumped from pump houses on base through underground pipelines to the flightline. From there, fuel trucks pump the fuel from the pipeline into the aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo/Roland Balik)

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Gas and go: the journey of a drop of jet fuel on Dover AFB

Published March 27, 2012
By Roland Balik
436th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. -- From subterranian pipelines to an aircraft's fuel tank, the journey of a drop of Jet A fuel on Dover Air Force Base, Del., is overseen by the men and women of the 436th Logistics Readiness Squadron.