Posted: 11/23/2008 10:54:45 PM EDT
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I am doing some research for a paper I've got to write by tomorrow morning. Browsing through some online databases of articles. Stumbled across this. Came from some govt./military maintenance periodical. Didn't think they still used cartoons for stuff like this...guess I was wrong.  Title of the 'article' was Help for ACOG is Here!...   Sorry for the second one being so small...they didn't have a higher resolution/zoomed in copy. |
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I read somewhere that the term "by the numbers" refers to how they used to train soldier before many of them were literate.
The military would put pictures showing how to perform their duties on their issued handkerchiefs. They were given steps in pictures that were numbered and instructed to do things "by the numbers". |
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So all those drawings for a simple statement "Send it to your armorer."?
Government...tsk tsk tsk.... That's what I was thinking. More like the drawings were in PM mag which is what the armorer usually reads. Often times with issued equipment finding the NSN for a replacement part is the hardest part of your day. I had 5 KAC M203 adapters that were broken because nobody reads the damn manual to understand the shim has 5 different settings and you don't have to force it. It took me three days to find the NSN to try and order new ones. Two days after throwing the broken ones away someone mentioned KAC usually warranties their items and all I had to do was contact the company. yak |
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Quoted: Preventative Maintenance MonthlyWhere do these come from specifically? Someone posted on about gun cleaning/lubing myths yesterday. I have access to electronic html/pdf issues back to 1995. I've been looking through a few and they're actually pretty interesting. If you're a college student or otherwise have access to something like EBSCOhost or another periodical database look it up to see if they have it. I just looked at a cartoon explaining how to shrink the rim of your beret to make it fit better... Crap, I've still got 4 pages worth of a research paper to write, this isn't helping any! |