PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-615
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 615
FEBRUARY 2004
PS 615
FEB 04
51
MS
Making Use of Online Resources
O
ne of the most obvious Web advantages is the ability of soldiers to ask questions about
maintenance or supply and get rapid responses.
In addition to being able to ask MSG Half-Mast maintenance and supply questions at:
psmag@logsa.army.mil ,
soldiers can submit logistics questions to the Logistics Support Activity’s hotline, LOG 911 at:
These are great places to go for info, but the Web also offers soldiers the ability to reach
out to other maintenance and supply types and tap into the knowledge and experience of
their peers. While military protocol still applies on these sites, knowledge is what counts. A
captain will be just as pleased to get the right answer from a specialist as from a chief war-
rant officer.
The internet
offers maintenance
and supply soldiers
many advantages
not available in
the past.
Let’s take a look
at how experience
and knowledge
are being shared
across the Web.
You can post a question
that any other soldier or DA
civilian can read. Any of them
can post a response that is tied
directly to the original ques-
tion. They may know the
answer, or they may have an
excellent suggestion about
where to find info that will
lead to a solution.
Some soldiers post valuable
reference materials to the bul-
letin boards. And that’s fine.
But a better place to post both
reference info and free user-
developed
Windows-based
computer
applications
is
through AKO Collaboration.
For a full explanation of this
website please see
Soldier
Collaboration Encouraged on
AKO
, PS Issue 614, JAN 04,
pages 53-56.
However, soldiers should
not blindly accept everything
posted to the AKO Logistics
Knowledge Center and AKO
Collboration as absolute truth.
Use common sense, your train-
ing and background to assess
the info. You are still responsi-
ble for doing things right.
There are also official sources of logistics info on
the Web. One is FED LOG’s Information Center at:
Another website from the Software Engineering
Center at Ft Lee, VA, contains info and links to
Standard Army Management Information Systems
such as AFMIS, SAMS and ULLS-G. It is located at:
The SEC-Lee offers a Customer Assistance Office.
They can be reached at DSN 687-1051, Commercial
(804) 734-1051, Fax DSN 687-2913, or by email at:
cao@SDCL.Lee.army.mil
Soldiers can collaborate through Army Knowledge
Online (AKO) at the Army Logistics Knowledge
Center at:
https://lia13-www.army.mil/lkc/
The knowledge center has five bulletin boards to
which soldiers can post questions or offer info. The
bulletin board categories include:
General, Supply,
Maintenance, Transportation, and
Logistics Policy.
info you can use
to do a job better
is in cyberspace.
take a look!
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