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Snatch or grab.


Pilots and gunners, there's a right and wrong way to disconnect your Apache's Integrated Helmet and Display Sighting System (IHADSS IHADSS integrated helmet and display sight system (Army) (US DoD) ) from the ICS (1) (Internet Connection Sharing) A Windows feature that enables two or more computers to share one Internet connection. First introduced in Windows 98 Second Edition, sharing is accomplished with network address translation (NAT), which is the common method.  wiring harness attached to the seat.

The right way is to hold the helmet harness connector with one hand and the ICS cord attached to the seat with the other hand and use the quick disconnect. It's easy, but wrong just to take off the helmet and snatch snatch

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 out the helmet harness from the ICS cord. This can break the pins in the harness connector and the wires in the ICS cord.

If that happens, your bird is NMC NMC Nursing & Midwifery Council (UK)
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 because you won't be able to bore-sight the helmet to the aircraft/weapons and you won't be able to communicate.

And it gets worse! The seat has to be removed from your Apache so your AVIM shop can repair the ICS cord and repin of replace the helmet harness connector.

Snatching doesn't work: it creates more work for repairers and the high replacement cost of a harness is hard on your unit's bottom line. A replacement for a broken harness, NSN NSN National Stock Number
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 5995-01-186-8601, costs about $7,000.
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Publication:PS, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly
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Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Feb 1, 2005
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