It's a stormy life.As a soldier, you know the weather is always doing something--always doing something to your equipment! A piece of Army equipment is called on to work at both ends of the extreme reaches of weather and in the middle, too. It's not too much of an exaggeration to say that, as Mark Twain might've said, "136 different kinds of weather" can pound on your equipment. Can your equipment take that pounding? It can if you do 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. for harsh conditions like your TMs tell you. PM for temperatures that hover An option in Microsoft Internet Explorer that removes the permanent underline from hypertext links. The underline displays automatically and only when the cursor is placed over (hovers over) the link. Hover is available in Tools/Internet Options/Advanced/Underline links. above 100[degrees]F will not do the job when a thermometer thermometer, instrument for measuring temperature. Galileo and Sanctorius devised thermometers consisting essentially of a bulb with a tubular projection, the open end of which was immersed in a liquid. reads zero. Preventive maintenance done on equipment when it hasn't rained for a month will not do the job during a week-long monsoon monsoon (mŏns  n) [Arab., mausium=season], wind that changes direction with change of season, notably in India and SE Asia. . Match your PM to the weather. Extreme weather takes extreme PM. |
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