Reserve CEO outlines Army's push for better energy use

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Reserve CEO outlines Army's push for better energy use - Reserve CEO outlines Army's push for better energy use | Article | The United States Army

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, June 25, 2012) -- In the wake of possible environmental disasters due to changes in climate, Army Reserve citizen Soldiers stand ready to respond where needed -- though an officials said the Reserve is making efforts now to help prevent those scenarios from happening.

Army Reserve Command Chief Executive Officer Addison "Tad" Davis spoke June 25, before the Association of Climate Change Officers' annual Defense, National Security and Climate Change conference in the nation's capital.

As a keynote speaker at the conference, Davis discussed the effects of environmental shift both domestically and abroad, and how those changes could negatively impact living conditions. If, for example, climate change wreaked havoc on poverty-stricken areas in the U.S., and caused crises in terms of resource availability and increased opportunity for disease, the 205,000 Soldiers in the Army Reserve would have the capability to assist.
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Throughout the presentation, Davis accentuated the point that the Army was in the process of adapting to new methods of collecting and applying energy. He expressed the hope that he would be able to attend future climate change conferences and report back on the strides the Army had made in improving energy conservation.

"It's real for us," he said, on behalf of the Army Reserve. "It's something we signed up for and we believe in and we're going to move forward in, and we'll see where it takes us."

Actually, all branches of the U. S. Military are heavily involved in not just alternative energy research, but in actually transforming our military machinery and facilities to run with greater energy efficiency and on alternative energy sources where ever possible.