RE: [MV] 4th of July...+ 2 cents on Canibals

From: Lee Franklin (lee@wellnesshealth.com)
Date: Thu Jul 01 2004 - 09:56:59 PDT


Sorry folks, my $.02.

No disparagement intended, but every unit I was in did what they could
in-house,
or had DS do it in our house, so that we didn't lose our vehicles. I
remember
a deuce and a half showing up at my unit in germany after I'd already been
there
a year.. seems the previous motor sergeant had sent it in to depot... it was
pretty
though, we took it in maintenance.

That's the reason we tend not to give them up, although that is an extreme
example,
is because we NEED our vehicles to complete our mission, so we do anything
that
we can do in house to not send them out and risk not having them when we
need them.

-Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
Behalf Of paul carrier
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 1:07 AM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] 4th of July...+ 2 cents on Canibals

I guess you must have never worked DS to Cav.
Or working inside the funding constraints the National Guard is under.
150 line limit on the PLL list chief. You still have to have the finds to
buy those PLL items. No monies no PLL.

You can stop tooting your horn now chief, we can all acknowledge you were a
better troop than Audey Murphy and Georgie Patton combined.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
> Behalf Of Ida Heath
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 7:38 PM
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [MV] 4th of July...+ 2 cents on Canibals
>
>
> You people can support wrong doing if you wish but I don't. If the Army
> supply system was utilized properly there would be no need or reason for
> swapping parts. It isn't fair to the mechanic doing the double
> work nor is
> it fair to the system. Demand cryteria creates stockage authorization.
> Three demands in 180 days gives you the authority to pick it up on your
> precscribed load list and one demand keeps it on hand. How much simpler
> could it be? I even took the demands when I went to the cann
> point. I did
> my job the way it was supposed to be done, my mechanics and
> supervisors were
> happy, they had ample time to do their job properly and everybody received
> outstanding evaluation reports and everybody, including myself,
> got promoted
> ahead, in most cases, of people in units that were hanging used parts and
> doing their own maintenance with a pencil. Your way will work but it sure
> makes things a hellava lot harder. and I'am of the opinion that there is
> absolutely NO ryme or reason to do out of echelon work, thats just asking
> for trouble.
>
> I made Sergeant First Class (E-7) in the secondary zone of consideration,
> the fastest any soldier in the Army could have made it so come on, I must
> have done something right. If all my equipment was sitting on
> deadline, the
> unit unable to perform its mission, do you really think that I would have
> gotten where I did? Don't think so.
>
> Okay, okay, I'll shut up.
>

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