New, updated TEA pamphlets improve field guidance for transporters.

The Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command Transportation Engineering Agency (SDDCTEA) has supported the deployment community with field guidance pamphlets for many years. TEA continuously updates these pamphlets and occasionally publishes new pamphlets as necessary.

The "Fast Sealift Ship User's Manual", TEA Pamphlet 700-7, dated August 2005, is a new pamphlet designed to aid marine cargo specialists, vessel stowplanners, and anyone involved with planning, loading, or stowing cargo on a fast sealift ship. It provides detailed descriptions of ship's capabilities, configurations, and cargo gear. This information was compiled from cargo loadout manuals, operations manuals, and data collected during ship surveys and actual loading operations.

The "Lifting and Lashing Handbook for Marine Movements", TEA Pamphlet 55-22, Third Edition, dated August 2005, was updated to include Army equipment that has been acquired since the Second Edition and MIL-DTL-32108, which provides guidance on the use of spreader bars to lift older military vehicles and large equipment. This publication provides users with the proper lifting and lashing methods for loading and securing general and military equipment aboard marine vessels.

These pamphlets, along with other TEA publications, can be accessed or ordered free of charge from the TEA website at www.tea.army.mil.

Maj. Gen. Charles W. Fletcher, Jr.

Commander, SDDC