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Subject:Re: Parts lists in maintenance manuals From:Westbrook <westbrook -at- FLEX -dot- NET> Date:Sat, 9 May 1998 16:48:27 GMT
On Fri, 8 May 1998 16:32:11 -0700, George Mena
<George -dot- Mena -at- ESSTECH -dot- COM> wrote:
>If you don't tell the field organizations (people at the fighter
>squadron level, for example) what they can't work on, they can't know
>what parts have to be handled farther up the line. For org level parts
Isn't that the purpose of the MAC (Maintenance Allocation Chart, for
those of you reading this who are outside of the defense industry)?
I spent most of this week working on a MAC for an IETM, BTW.
