The U.S. military uses almost every form of energy in a number of different ways in order to carry out its mission. Some applications are comparable to those in normal civilian life – such as heating or air conditioning for office buildings in downtown Washington, D.C., gasoline for on-base cars and trucks in Japan, or lighting for warehouses in Germany. Other applications are incredibly unique and certainly much less pedestrian – like fuel for high performance jets or tactical vehicles (we might call them tanks) in remote locations, electric power for communications equipment in mountain outposts, diesel fuel for Naval vessels on the Indian Ocean and uranium for vessels under it.
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