PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-579
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 579
FEBRUARY 2001
PS 579
FEB 01
60
Supply . . .
P
roject codes are issued to units in
order to assure special handling and
faster processing of their requisitions
when that unit is assigned a special mis-
sion or operation.
But some supply and TAMMS/PLL
clerks use these codes to fill routine req-
uisitions faster. It’s not authorized and
bogs down the system with high priority
requisitions. It also puts project-coded
operations at risk because it increases the
time it takes to fill supporting requisitions.
Project codes are three-position
alpha-numeric codes that are assigned
by the President, the Office of the
Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Joint
Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and DA. Project
codes are controlled by the office that
assigns them and are used to manage and
track maneuvers, exercises and programs.
Project codes assigned by OSD or the
JCS may be classified, always take
precedence over DA project codes, and
are always easily identified because
their first position is always the number 3
or 9.
The USAMC Logistics Support
Activity (LOGSA) assigns, maintains
and controls all DA project codes.
LOGSA also receives copies of all
JCS/OSD project codes and distributes
them to Army MACOM and DA-
appointed POCs by e-mail. These POCs
issue them to units participating in oper-
ations identified to project codes.
For more information on project
codes, contact the LOGSA coordinator
for DA and JCS/OSD project codes at
(256) 313-2495, DSN 897-2495, or e-
mail:
amxlsmm@logsa.army.mil
.
Supply Excellence Awards
Page 58 of PS 571 rightly cited the
78th Signal Bn as getting an active
Army honorable mention for supply
excellence. It wrongly placed the unit
in Korea. It is in Japan.
25-Outlet Light Set
It’s better to be safe than sorry, espe-
cially with the 25-outlet light set,
NSN 6230-00-299-7077. That’s why
Communications-Electronics
Command is replacing the light set’s
old circuit breaker, NSN 5925-01-392-
9966, with a safer ground fault cir-
cuit interrupter (GFCI), NSN 5925-01-
466-0676. Questions? Contact Tim
Messer, DSN 992-2793/ (732)532-
2793,
timothy.messer@mail1.
monmouth.army.mil
.
No More Battery Repair
Since the Army’s newest lead-acid
battery features posts that cannot be
repaired, TM 9-6140-200-14,
Oper-
ator, Unit, Direct Support and
General
Support
Maintenance
Manual
for
Lead-acid
Storage
Batteries,
will be changed to elimi-
nate all battery repair.
The next TM
change will delete Para 4-3, Battery
Repair, including repair of case
cracks, posts and filler ports.
SEE Hood Latch
Order the small emplacement exca-
vator’s hood latch with NSN 5340-12-
187-8938. The latch is missing from
Fig 196 of TM 5-2420-224-24P.
M35A3 CTIS Air Dryer Kit
There is a parts kit available for the
CTIS air dryer on M35A3 2 1/2-ton
trucks, so don’t order the entire dryer
just to get a filter or gasket. Kit, NSN
2530-01-442-4606, brings a desiccant
canister with gasket (Items 2 and 3
from Fig 168, TM 9-2320-386-24P), a
coalescing filter (Item 5), a pre-
formed packing (Item 6) and a pack-
age of lubricant for the gasket. You
don’t need Item 4 anymore.
579. 60-61 (C)
1/8/01
2:09 PM
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