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Navy unit keeps tactical fuel flowing.

By Inigo, Jessica
Publication: Navy Supply Corps Newsletter
Date: Wednesday, September 1 2004

LSAANACONDA, Iraq -- Although it appears as though the Navy has resorted to fields of waterbeds to make up for all the Iraqi sand, these Sailors are actually not that homesick. The 528th U.S. Navy Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants Support--as the Army likes to call the unit--is an interservice company with the Army's 7th Transportation Battalion out of Fort Bragg, N.C., that keeps fuel flowing and wheels rolling.

In its Navy tongue, the company is known as the Navy Expeditionary Logistic Support Force (A) Forward, and is made up of 80 Reserve Sailors, known as the "Sand Squ

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