C pter 3 - Supnly of POL Products. The Petroleum products were available as required to satisfy Oper- ation HARDTACK requirements. Limited bulk storage facilities, however, necesei tated daily monitoring of stock balances and frequent adjusting of petroleum tanker schedules to insure the mintenance of minimum operational requirements. (See figure 7 and 8, fuel co%sumption). The existing bulk storage capacity is 614,500 gallons JP-4; 774,500 gallons AvGas; 78,000 gallons MoGas and 158,000 gallons of diesel. No difficulty was experienced in maintaining adequate stocks of MoGas and diesel; however, during periods of intensified flying stocks of JP-4 and AvGas became critical. The daily issues, stock balances, projected daily requirements and petroleum re~supply tanker schedules were re- viewed daily to identify actions necessary to preclude depletion of stocks. The storage space did not always permit the isolation of tested fuel and on occasions it was necessary to contaminate tested fuel with new fuel in order to accept delivery of maximim quantities from the tanker. Arrangements were made with the petroleum testing Jaboratory at Pearl Harbor, TH, to test our fuel samples and to report results expeditiously. The support rendered was excellent we were able to avoid using untested fuel, although on occasions fuel was serviced into aircraft within hours after receipt of the analysis results. As part of the support of the Weather Islands, (Kusaie, Rongelap, Kapingamarangi, Tarawa, Nauru, Wotho, Utirik, Ujelang), it was necessary to preposition drummed MoGas and diesel fuel. Quantities estimated were adequate and were in place in time to meet our operational requirements, AFWL/HO ~—> 173