 The Army Oil Analysis Program, or AOAP for short, is a preventative maintenance tool that can save Army units thousands of dollars each budget cycle in parts and labor costs. Oil Analysis Lab Manager Heidi Vodide explains, The AOAP program has a lot of benefits. We're thinking about proactive maintenance, preventive maintenance, and of course we heard a lot about that as the environmental. Every time a single truck or other rig gets an oil change up to 10 gallons of oil must be added. Costs add up. It actually saves, because like I said, it's a preventive maintenance tool, but it also saves the taxpayer money because we would not have to purchase new oil. Like I said, we extend the intervals and we would not have to pay for the waste oil disposal. We would not have to pay for the disposal of filters. We would not have to pay for the disposal of plastic containers the oil is purchased in. AOAP tests that examines three different criteria that can allow maintenance tech to extend oil life. We are doing three tests AES. We are looking for 15 elements in oil. We are doing the viscosity. Viscosity is one of the most important tests we are doing. On the test, the third test is that we are looking for the contamination, but it's coming in oil. Like water, coolant, that is the test name is FDIR. The 39th transportation battalion at Claibor concern has an active fleet of 6915 alpha tractor trailer rigs each needing the maintenance to strict standards of readiness. These tractor rigs use 10 gallons of oil as well as many gallons of transmission fluid so extended lubricant life can save the unit money. How much money? Program, the number is run with six trucks we got running it's like about 28,800 dollars just for the oil. And those savings don't even include the labor time to change the oil on one of these rigs. To change the oil on one of the landfill tanks for about 30 minutes to include the oil filters and everything. And compare that to the time needed to draw oil and transmission fluid sample. About five minutes to draw a sample. So five minutes versus 30 minutes. Additional savings come from a sharp drop in oil filter usage and oil disposal costs because you guessed it. For every 10 gallons of new oil that get added, 10 gallons of old dirty oil must be discarded. We have only 50 more years maybe, oh we have to be careful how we use it. So bringing regular samples into the lab can extend a finite resource and support a cleaner environment. The lab services organizations far beyond the Kaiserslautern military community area. We support Africa units, we support aviation units, we support the rotational units coming and going out of Europe as we speak. Those are mainly our customers. The lab is located at the U.S. Army Depot just across from Dana Kaserne in Kaiserslautern. I'm Army Sergeant First Class John Fries, 7th Mission Support Command.