High-falutin' commo still needs down-and-dirty PM.Coming to a tank, HMMWV HMMWV High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV is a trademark of AM General LLC; aka HUMVEE, also a trademark of AM General LLC) , or aircraft near you over the next decade is the joint tactical radio system (JTRS JTRS Joint Tactical Radio System JtRS Just The Right Shoe JTRS Just the Right Size JTRS Johnson Technical Reports Server JTRS Joint Tenancy with Right of Survivorship JTRS Jefferson Township Rescue Squad ). JTRS will eventually make sure that no matter what piece of communications equipment you have, you'll you'll Contraction of you will. you'll you will or you shall you'll will be able to "talk" to any other piece of commo gear. The heart and soul of JTRS is computer software. It is a family of software that will make sure everyone is on the same sheet of music singing the same tune. With this emphasis on software, it will be easy to dismiss the hardware as secondary. When that happens, 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. falls off and equipment falls apart. The best software in the world will not work if the hardware it's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have programmed into is not top-notch. The worst thing in battle is a weapon that won't fire, but coming in a close second is a radio that won't communicate. Make sure as new radio equipment and new communications techniques hit the field that basic PM is not neglected. High-falutin' equipment still needs down-and-dirty preventive maintenance. Without PM, you'll be reduced to sending smoke signals on the modern battlefield. |
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