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PS 582
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ou won t be in the game for long if
you don t suit up in bug armor for complete
protection. Use personal insect repellent, NSN
6840-01-284-3982, on your skin and
skin protects you up to 10 hours. The stuff for your clothing will last the life of the
uniform if you follow directions that come with the kit.
Both of these repellents contain the same ingredients used in the best commercial
products on the market. When you re field training or deployed,
exposure to dis-
ease-carrying insects is greater than what you ll face on a Sunday afternoon picnic.
So protect yourself with both repellents.
Want more information on how to keep bugs away? See Technical Information
Memorandum (TIM) No. 36 at:
. Click on Contingency
Information, then on Guidance.
4. Not paying attention to path impedance
—resistance to current flow—when you lay
out and attach the grounding strap.
Keep the ground strap as straight and as
short as possible. Make sure there are no
loops, kinks, knots or sharp bends.
Run the strap under or around obstacles, not
over them. If an obstacle is in the way, remove
it, or pick another spot for your ground rod.
The key is to make sure nothing increases the
ground strap’s impedance and causes failures.
5. Not attaching the grounding strap correctly
to the ground rod.
The generator set’s three-section ground
clamp for the ground strap. The shelter’s 8-ft
ground rod has a thumbscrew to do the job.
Too often, the clamp is lost and the thumb-
screw is broken. When this is the case, the
ground strap is often tied or loosely wrapped
around the rod. This does not provide the good
connection that’s needed to conduct the current
down the rod and into the earth.
So, check your ground rods. Order replacements for missing clamps with NSN
clamp for the three-section rod is too narrow to use on the 8-ft rod.
If you’re missing a
clamp or thumbscrew
and no replacement is
handy, tie the ground
strap to the rod with at
least 24 tightly wound
turns of stripped tele-
phone wire or other bare
wire. Use this as a tem-
porary fix until a clamp
or screw can be found.
Keep it straight
and short
Use
clamp to
secure
strap
Wrap at least
24 turns
put
me
in coach.
I’m
ready to play.
no
bug
armor.
no field
time.
Take it from
One-Eyed Willie,
careful grounding
is important!
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