From: Ida Heath (spike@defuniak.com)
Date: Sun Jun 27 2004 - 05:44:00 PDT
Paul,
Just out of curiosity, what country's Army were you in? I entered the U.S.
Army in 1960 and retired in 1982, was in the automotive maintenance field
the entire time, started out carrying a general mechanics tool box and
retired an Automotive Maintenance Technician Chief Warrant Officer and TAMMS
(The Automotive Maintenance Management System) didn't operate quite the way
you described during the time I was in. Up until 1962 when a wheeled or
tracked vehicle needed work performed that wasn't allowed by the
organization in which it was issued and assigned, it was required to send
it to "Ordinance" who would either perform needed repairs and return to user
or accept it for "Turn In" and the unit would requisition a replacement from
the supply system. Beginning in 1962, if memory serves me, "Ordinance" was
changed to "Direct Support" and "General Support" and the same basic
procedure was followed if a vehicle was in need of repair that the
organization was not allowed to do.
The levels of maintenance were/are:
1. Organizational- this includes the operator for operator maintenance and
the mechanic for organizational maintenance.
2. Direct Support- these folks would replace major components and rebuild
some small parts. Defective components would be shipped to General Support
for rebuild or disposal.
3. General Support- these folks would rebuild major components or dispose
of them.
4. Depot- These folks would classify and rebuild those vehicles which were
worthy of rebuild or dispose of them through "Property Disposal" whick today
may be called DRMO.
The above is believed by me to be the way the Army Maintenance System
operates. If any of the above is incorrect I would appreciate being
informed.
Note: There were times and places where a Direct Support unit may be allowed
to repair a component as needed and return to user instead of replacing it
but that was not the norm.
Sonny
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul A. Thomas <bluewhale@jaxkneppers.com>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Deuce carrying capacity
> IMSHO, there are few tasks a US MV will fail at. They are designed with
> the lowest common denomameter in mind: that the operator will have the
> brains of a snail, or will be in a situation where that level of
> planning will make them ROFL.
>
> Legal considerations of your locale aside (!!) I would suggest trying it
> and see what happens. the WORST that could happen would be that you had
> to off load some of your cargo and carry less each load.
>
> I say this tongue in cheek. I was in the Army in the late 70's.. once
> in a while we had a truck we KNEW needed to be rebuilt, yet the things
> wrong with it did not qualify it for such loving treatment. Thus, in an
> effort to save the taxpayers money, we would take the truck out on the '
> tank trails ' tho there were no tanks in sight.
>
> Sometimes it would take us 2 months to ' break ' the truck to the point
> where Depot level would take it. My lower back can guarantee that much
> of this driving involved airborne time in a Deuce or 5 ton. Little
> motivates the average 63B like knowing he can't even order the required
> parts to fix the problem... thus we were motivated to move those we
> couldn't fix to Depot level.
>
>
>
> Paul
>
>
> **********************
>
>
> I'm wanting to haul water and Norwesco has two tanks that would fill my
> requirements on price & dimentions. One is 1250 gal. & the other is 1500
> gal. and IS preferred IF the M35 will haul it short distances (less than
one
> mile) at 5 - 10 mph.
> http://www.norwesco.com/Index.cfm?Section=LST&Page=LST04
>
> The 1500 gal. tank weighs 650#. Water @ 8.34#/gal. x 1500 = 12,510 + 650 =
> 13,160# total weight.
>
> Has anyone consistently hauled this much? I accidently had 15,400# in
gravel
> once & didn't realize it until I got the dray bill, but that was once.
Your
> opinions please????? What is the MOST you ever hauled?
>
> Pete Zimbelman peterz@dnet.net Robbinsville, NC 28771
>
>
>
>
>
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