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[rob love]

My memories of the paperwork in the early 80s was that things could be pretty hit or miss. With the introduction of time accounting in the 80s, things got a bit better overall, but still way too much latitude for problems. By the 90s, you would still find hard copy work orders lost in the filing cabinets under the completely wrong headings. Even in the last few years, you could order all kinds of things on the hard copy parts request, but only enter a portion of that into the computer.

The newest system is said to tie between the supply side, the transport side, and the maintenance side. If it works out, the collectors 30 years down the road may be able to access every last task and part that were charged against their collectible G wagon or LSVW.

Yes, it is amazing that we can access all this info on vehicles disposed of 25 years ago. But the army does run on paperwork, and always did things in triplicate.

[chris vickery]

Thanks Scotty, Rob. Scotty, I didn't lierally mean your data, guess I should have said the data researched and found by yourself. I appreciate the info and the work involved

I figured that even as Rob suggests, the army runs on paperwork but was always under the misguided concept that with all the t crossing and i dotting involved, that accuracy would have been the norm.... As Mike suggests, it may have been a pile of backlogged paperwork that a clerk had the tedious task of entering into the system. Or, as Scotty pointed out a sum of vehicles were lumped together.