Military Packaging Awareness

Military Packaging Awareness

Military Packaging exists based upon the lessons learned (and often not learned) when improper packaging failed to protect materiel in combat logistics support missions. The packages must properly protect the items to meet the most severe worldwide shipment, handling, and storage conditions. To ensure combat readiness at all times, packages must also be capable of protecting items from the effects of direct exposure to extremes of climate, terrain, and operational and transporation environments. If the items reach its destination in a damaged condition, all engineering, manufacturing, quality, and procurement efforts are in vain. DoD Packaging Specialists are committed to developing optimum package designs at the lowest overall cost to continue to support the needs of our DoD customers.

The following information has been compiled as an awareness tool for you to gain a better understanding of military packaging, its contributions to combat readiness, and its invisible protective role. After reading these articles, essays, studies, and viewing the videos, we are confident that you too will regard military packaging as a very critical component of combat readiness.

DOCUMENTS

The History and Significance of Military Packaging
Do you like military history? Find out why military packaging evolved.
DATE: December 1995 - Contact Author

U.S. Army Support Groups Forward Packaging Operations in the Persian Gulf
This report is based on observations made by a Packaging Specialist assigned to the U.S. Army Support Group Forward during Operation Desert Storm and redeployment of U.S. Forces. The purpose of the report was to share observations of strong and weak points of packaging and redeployment operations. We encourage you to read this document to discover the lessons learned and avoid repeating history during future situations.
DATE: September 1992 - Contact Author

VIDEOS

The following highlighted VHS tapes are available for site fleet and shore training by TARP Field representatives. Contractors have informed us that these video tapes were quite helpful as supplemental training aids. Copies may be ordered at the DAVIS/DITIS URL: http://dodimagery.afis.osd.mil/dodimagery/davis/

Stock #	Title	Time	Source
28021	Round Trip Ticket-Shipping Containers	0:20:30	USAF
30491	Importance of Military Packaging	0:18:16	ARMY
69117	Selection of Exterior Shipping Containers	0:16:00	ARMY
71337	Heat Sealing	0:16:00	ARMY
606761	Electrostatic Discharge	0:10:00	USAF
702015	Packaging of Repairable and Returnable Items	0:13:42	ARMY
702016	Open and Covered Wooden Crates	0:12:14	ARMY
707071	Foam In Place	0:16:27	ARMY
707072	Fabrication of Nail Wood Boxes	0:18:34	ARMY
707073	Preservation of Military Supplies, Method III	0:20:10	ARMY
707074	Marking for Shipment and Storage	0:20:00	ARMY
708504	E-3 Awareness, Electromagnetic Environmental Effects	0:14:00	ARMY
708991	Introduction to Military Packing	0:17:07	ARMY
710092	Cleated Panel Boxes	0:17:45	ARMY
710730	Sheathed Wood Crates	0:13:27	ARMY
710919	Military Preservation: Method 10	0:19:10	ARMY
710920	Method 20 Military Packaging	0:12:17	ARMY
710922	Method 40 Military Packaging	0:12:17	ARMY
803784	ESD: The Invisible Threat	0:12:18	NAVY
805569	Hazardous Material Offload	0:14:43	NAVY

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