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By Lanning, Robert M.
Publication: Army Logistician
Date: Friday, July 1 2005

The Army Oil Analysis Program (AOAP) has been supporting the warfighter for 43 years by analyzing engine and transmission oils and alerting aviation and ground units of potential component failures. Twenty-three fixed and two mobile laboratories perform this mission. The mobile laboratories, built in 1987 at Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky, have indeed been mobile. They deployed to Saudi Arabia in 1991, Bosnia and Somalia in 1995, Kosovo in 1999, Qatar in 2001, and Iraq and Kuwait in 2003. The most recent deployment involved moving a mobile lab from Arifjan, Kuwait, to Bagram, Afg

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