PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-583
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 583
JUNE 2001
PS 583
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Reprinted from PS 77 (1959)…
PS 583
JUN 01
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ou may have already noticed that this
issue of PS is special. For one thing, the
whole magazine is printed in four colors, not
just the covers and the center section.
The contributions by Generals Shinseki
and Coburn and Sergeant Major of the Army
Tilley are another special feature.
This issue also has some really unusual-
looking pages, like the two you see here. The
reason they look strange is because they were
first printed in PS 20 or 30 or more years ago.
Word for word, including all illustrations,
they’re the same. Yet their message is just as
relevant today as it was back then.
Why? Well, one reason is because
soldiers
are still using some of the same kinds of
equipment that were used in Vietnam, even
Korea. More importantly, the need for pre-
ventive maintenance on that equipment has
not changed.
It still needs regular checkups to guard
against the insidious damage of corrosion. It
still needs lube at regular intervals. Its filters
still need periodic cleaning or changing.
So, while your tools, equipment, gear and
weapons have evolved over the last 50 years
to meet the ever-changing nature of warfare,
the need for preventive maintenance has
not changed.
And it never will.
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