Wanted: Crew tent poles / frame elements

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Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

The poles are aluminum and typically the Supply Tech sorts by material not necessarily by checklist - rubber in the rubber bin, fabric, leather etc, and aluminum into the aluminum bin. Which is why modular tent poles are so hard to find.

Because the tent has a checklist, you do not condemn the whole tent but rather deal with each piece individually as required. The tent and the fly are each A class, so if you have one of these items that are ripped, it goes to the materials tech who makes a decision as to whether to repair it or condemn it. If condemned, then the tent or fly goes into the textiles triwall and gets sold as scrap textiles. meanwhile the poles ( c class) and the case (A class) have never left the original unit. You then re-order which ever item was condemned to replace the one scrapped.

If the poles are damaged, they are C class and merely tossed into the scrap metal bin, and new ones ordered.

So why don't they just condemn the whole tent set? Because if you go to order the whole assembly under the NSN Terry gave, it tells you to order the individual items, so you would be in even deeper workload than you are just dealing with the individual items.

I saw in the past where the mat techs condemned a MLVW security cage after a minor accident on the truck. I had to have them confirm that is what they wanted to do 3 times, and that was what they wanted. So with the security cage now gone, the losing unit found out they had to re-order every piece to the cage (dozens and dozens of items, many of which were A class, which is like ordering them 3 times by the time you were done)rather than just the 4 or 5 sections that were actually damaged. They were not happy.

The old cage still adorns the old deuce in front of the MooseJaw armouries.