Need small arms help? Need depot repair?If your unit is preparing to deploy, the Army has an assistance team that will help armorers get their pistols, rifles, and machine guns ready for battle. The 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. Readiness and Evaluation Team (SARET SARET Small Arms Readiness and Evaluation Team ) will pay your unit a visit and do small arms inspections and repairs on site. The team is composed of small arms technicians from TACOM-Rock Island Arsenal and Anniston Army Depot Anniston Army Depot (ANAD) is a major United States Army facility fulfilling various depot operations. Primary missions are the repair of tracked vehicles and storage of chemical weapons (Anniston Chemical Activity). The depot is located in Anniston, Alabama. . SARET prefers to do brigade-size inspections over a two-week period. Units pay only for parts used in repair. To schedule a SARET visit, contact TACOM's Tom Jefferson at DSN DSN - Digital Switched Network 793-33941(309) 782-3394 or email: jeffersont@ria.army.mil or contact Kevin Moore at DSN 793-23591(309) 7822359 or email: kevin.o.moore@us.army.mil Depot Repair Sometimes weapons can't be repaired locally, but must be sent off to depot-usually for things like a cracked receiver or loose rivets or protective finish missing from more than 113 of the receiver. Unrepairable weapons should be sent off to depot ASAP (chat) asap - As soon as possible. so they can be fixed and given to units deploying or transforming. Units should not try to do depot repairs themselves, particularly refinishing Refinishing in woodworking and decorative arts means fixing or redoing the finishing paint, varnish or other top coating of an object, from resanding to new paint and new varnish. The artisan or restorer is traditionally aiming for an improved or restored and renewed finish. weapons. That is a complicated task that Anniston will do at no cost to units. Weapons needing depot repair should be turned in as "Not Repairable This Station". Units should requisition replacement small arms with the correct RESET project code in card columns 57-59. Use a 26-type requirement code in card columns 55-56 like it says in Table C-23 in AR 725-50. |
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