maintenance award - readiness info - 1990 part 2
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READINESS
MONTHLY AVAILABILITY RATE8 See Enclosure i.
READINESS INFORMATION8 Operational readiness is every soldier'sbusiness in the 188th Military Police Company. All soldiers are keenlyauare that their effectiveness and uiell being depends a great deal on thecondition and serviceability of the equipment they use to perform theirwartime and peacetime missions. Accordingly, they keep their weapons,vehicles, radios, and other equipment in top notch condition. Each pieceof equipment has an assigned operator/soldier. Our drivers and gunnersare proud of their assigned weapon systems and their condition. Thisenthusiasm and sense of pride at the operator level is the cornerstone ofour maintenance program and operational readiness posture. The emphasison readiness does not stop at the operator level. Leaders at all levelswithin the company are constantly striving to ensure that our equipment isfully mission capable and the unit's operational readiness rate exceedsthe Battalion's standard of excellence of 95/i. Nothing is overlooked fromthe individual soldier's CTA 50 and individual weapon to the weapons,radios, and vehicles that make up our weapon systems. As a result of ourtotal unit maintenance concept and the dynamic manner in which thewarfighters of the IBBth Military Police Company have executed theconcept, the following statistics indicate that we have exceeded theBattalion, Brigade, and Army standards continuously this past year.
"NO-NOTICE" AND OTHER "ROLL OUT" EXERCI5ES8 As previously stated,the primary mission of the 188th Military Police Company is to conduct MPcombat support missions throughout Area V. Throughout the year, the 18SthMilitary Police Company's combat readiness" and maintenance posture istested and evaluated during weekly platoon level Z cycle collectivetraining periods; quarterly company field training exercises conducted inconjunction with platoon Z cycle training periods; and monthly alertscalled by either the Battalion, Brigade, supporting Area Support Group, orEUSA/USFK commanders. Regardless of the type of exercises, two areas arealways evaluated. They ares the unit's ability to transition from itspeacetime footing to its wartime posture, and the unit's operationalreadiness posture and maintenance status. When platoons or the companyars alerted, they practice transition to war under two scenarios, a fourhour "no notice" scenario or a 72 hour advanced warning scenario. Whenplatoons of the company are alerted, the maintenance, supply, andcommunications sections as well as the NBC NCO and unit armorers move totheir work areas to issue equipment, dispatch vehicles, and assistoperators and gunners with last minute checks and services. Everybody inthe unit prepares for deployment by drawing unit basic loads (UBLs) andloading out all organizational and individual equipment and completingother transition to war tasks lAW the unit's readiness program. Theentire company headquarters to include the maintenance, communications,supply, and food service sections as well as the NBC NCO are all trainedto perform their mission essential tasks and take pride in the fact thatthey play a vital role and are a key ingredient in the unit's overallsuccess. This is a feeling* that is not only unique to the soldiers alongthe DMZ, but to all soldiers who take their mission seriously, like theWarfighters of the IBOth Military Police Company.
