Winter refresher course.Ice, snow and bone-chilling cold are headed your way. Learn how to protect yourself and your troop support equipment from the rigors of winter. Begin your education by reading a few back issues of PS, the 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. Monthly. Issues 599 through 602 present a wide range of stories about the use and maintenance of troop support equipment in cold weather. Here's what you'll find: PS 599, October 2002 * Space heater PM * NSNs for approved tent heaters * Tent PM * Washing and patching the extended cold weather clothing system The Extended Cold Weather Clothing System (ECWCS; pronounced "EK-wax") is a protective clothing system developed in the 1980s by the United States Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, Natick, Massachusetts. (ECWCS ECWCS Extended Cold Weather Clothing System ) * Patching, drying and cleaning cold weather boots * Cleaning the modular sleeping bag system, lubing the zipper zipper Device for binding the edges of an opening, as on a garment or a bag. A zipper consists of two strips of material with metal or plastic teeth along the edges, and a sliding piece that interlocks the teeth when moved in one direction and separates them again when moved * Gloves for winter maintenance, mitten liners PS 600, November 2002 * using and cleaning the sleeping mat * Cold weather parka care, NSNs and sizes * Insulated covers for water cans PS 601, December 2002 * camouflage screening and snow PS 602, January 2003 * Heater for 4-man soldier crew tent View the issues online at http://www.logsa.army.mil/psmag/psonline.htm As long as you're getting educated, browse through these issues for cold weather stories about other kinds of equipment. PS 599 in particular is packed with winter PM tips on everything from combat vehicles and aircraft to 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. and communications, |
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