PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-439
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 439
JUNE 1989
What does maintenance mean to the
average soldieR? It means going to the
motor pool to woRk.
What kind of
work?
That
depends
on
who's
in
charge.
A
strong
maintenance
NCO
will
make you get ±he
-10
Technical Manu-
p
al. You tu² to ±he part about PReven³
tive Maintenance Checks and SeRvices
(PMCS) and yoU do the things the
checklist taBle tells you ±o do. After
that's done, yoU can leave ±he mo±oR
pool´ µight? WRong! Wrong! Wrong!
Even with good NCO's in chaRge,
we have been sa±isFied in the past with
a maintenance progRam that's allowed
too much defeRRed maintenance. This
has been covered, in pa¶t, by a misUn·
deRstanding
of
-10/±20
PMCS stan¸
dards. OuR weapons may look good,
but ±hey're BReaking down moRe than
they shoUld. They're going ±o we¹r oUt
befºre they should. And ±hey'Re not
ready to »ace a potential enemy.
That's ±he Reason why we've got to
maintain
to
the
-²0/-20
sta¼d¹Rds.
That's the only standaRd ±hat's good
enoUgh½
But What Does
"Good Enough± Mean?
¾very piece of equipment in your
mo±or pool is a li±tle bit di¿eRent.
Tanks may look the same, but each
has little pecUliaRities that makes it dif³
Àrent.
That's why each tank, each tRUck,
each aÁillery piece needs a special pair
of eyes looking at i±. These special eyes
have got to be trained to see what's
ÂÃ below ±he suRface, not just the paint
job on ±he oUtside.
Äut,
we've
been
passing inspec³
tions! What's ±he pRoblem?
The truth is ouR deFinition of good
maintenance has been a little ÅÆzzy.
The deÇnition depended on who was
in charge. WHat you ±hought was good
maintenÈnce didn'± satisfy youR main³
tenance ±ech in the ÄMO shop. What
he
thoUght
was
good
maintenance
didn't satisfy ±he instructor Éom the
MAÊT team or the inspectoR Éom ±he
IG oËce. And what aboUt when you
tUÌed in a Vehicle? You pRac±ically
had to make it liKe new befºRe ±he in³
spectoRs would accept it.
So wheRe does it stop? Íha± is "good
mÎintenanceÏ?
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