All PM great and small.We all know about preventive maintenance--performing checks and services on equipment, finding, fixing or reporting small problems before they become major headaches. Every time you replace a dirty air filter, or clean a rifle bolt and bore, or inspect SINCGARS SINCGARS Single Channel Ground to Air Radio System (US DoD) SINCGARS Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System connectors and cables, you're doing PM. You're making sure a vehicle rolls, a rifle fires, and a radio communicates. It's only natural that the most attention, time and sweat is focused on PM for major systems: trucks, tanks, helicopters, missiles, small arms small arms, firearms designed primarily to be carried and fired by one person and, generally, held in the hands, as distinguished from heavy arms, or artillery. Early Small Arms The first small arms came into general use at the end of the 14th cent. , commo and construction equipment. But there's another side to PM, one we tend to overlook--preventive maintenance for troop support equipment, the small gear we're apt to neglect. It makes no difference if it's tents, BDUs, ALICE, helmets, cots, first aid kits, flashlights, water cans or a hundred other common items. They all support you and your mission on the battlefield. If this gear suffers from lack of PM, you and your mission suffer as well. So, next time you think about preventive maintenance The routine checking of hardware that is performed by a field engineer on a regularly scheduled basis. See remedial maintenance. preventive maintenance - (PM) To bring down a machine for inspection or test purposes. See provocative maintenance, scratch monkey. , think small. Think troop support. Remember to wash ALICE and replace worn or broken parts. Change the air filter and the in-tank fuel filter in a modern burner A drive that writes write-once optical discs such as CD-Rs and DVD-Rs. A "burner" implies a one-time recording, but the term is erroneously used to refer to drives that "write" to re-recordable CD-RW and DVD-RW/+RW media as well. See burn, CD-R and DVD-R. unit. Inventory a first aid kit and replace items that have passed their expiration dates Expiration Date The day on which an options or futures contract is no longer valid and, therefore, ceases to exist. Notes: The expiration date for all listed stock options in the U.S. . Clean and dry the inside of a water can so bacteria don't breed and foul the water. While you're at it, order extra batteries and bulbs for flashlights. |
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