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Posted on 01/28/2005 10:31:35 PM PST by snippy_about_it
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 LADS by Jonathan Given {Excerpt:} The Laundry Advanced System (LADS) is well on its way to replacing the Army’s current field laundry on a basis of one-LADS to four-M85s. So far, LADS has been fielded to the 259th Quarter-master Company, Fort Bragg, NC; 157th Quartermaster Company, Fort Hood, TX; 16th Quartermaster Company, Fort Lee, VA; and the 229th Quartermaster Company, Fort Polk, LA. Also, the US Army Quartermaster Center and School at Fort Lee, VA, and the US Army Ordnance Center and School at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, have received LADS and training devices to support their missions.  The LADS has performed extremely well. In addition to deployments within the continental United States to the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, LA, and the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, CA, nine LADS recently were deployed to Jordan and Egypt as part of Exercise Bright Star. Also, eight LADS currently are deployed to support Operation Enduring Freedom in Southwest Asia. The increased reliability of the LADS combined with its increased efficiency have provided some notable results. The former M85 laundry system processed about 30 tons of laundry in six months during Operation Desert Storm in the early 1990s. The LADS processed about 130 tons of laundry in less than three months during Exercise Bright Star in Egypt alone. To date, 24 LADS have been fielded out of a total of 146 to be built. There will be fieldings of the new M871A3, a 40-foot semitrailer, and all LADS will be "retrofitted" to this configuration. Benefits of configuring the LADS on the M871A3 include on-board fuel storage, fuel/water separator and quick-connect fuel fitting, and a storage locker for equipment and spare parts. Capabilities The LADS processes up to 400 pounds of laundry per hour, dry-to-dry. Soldiers’ clothes are washed, extracted and dried all in the same laundry drum. This system eliminates the need to transfer clothes between different pieces of laundry equipment. The LADS reuses and recycles water to reduce the water consumption from 24,000 gallons per day to 400 gallons per day. The wastewater is reduced from 20,000 gallons per day to 40 gallons. Lessons From the Field  Soldiers frequently complain about wrinkled clothing from the LADS. Some wrinkling is unavoidable. The laundry is processed in mesh bags to minimize lost clothing and to expedite the processing of soldiers’ laundry. Industrial laundries use mesh bags and acknowledge the decrease in product quality as an acceptable exchange for decreased processing times and reduced labor costs. Wrinkling can be kept to a minimum by removing the laundry from the bags immediately after it is finished instead of leaving the laundry in the mesh bags for hours. Supervisors need to properly manage laundry-processing personnel. Use available personnel to receive and bag the bulk of the available laundry before starting the LADS. As each laundry cycle is completed in the LADS, have personnel available to take the laundry out of the bags and prepare the laundry for return to customers. It is important to note that supervisors and preventive medicine personnel should observe the mesh bags for overstuffing. The bags provided with LADS are specifically designed to allow the clothing room to move inside the bag. The maximum for each mesh bag is about seven pounds of clothing (three pieces of uniform and three complete sets of undergarments). Each customer’s clothing should be split into two bags for the 15 pounds of laundry allowed. Each mesh bag has a cloth tag for writing an alphanumeric identification with indelible marker.  The identification tag on the mesh bag is used to match the customers’ clothing back to the customers. If the mesh bags are overloaded, the clothes will not get clean, they will not dry, and they will get very wrinkled. Supervisors and preventive medicine personnel should be very concerned about this. Aside from the health and laundry quality issues, the increased weight of one or more overstuffed mesh bags will generate drum-balancing problems during extraction cycles. The failure to spend time properly filling the mesh bags will ultimately cause delays in the laundry cycles. Each LADS is issued with 300 mesh bags (100 each of green, white and blue). That quantity sup-ports five complete loads (dual-drum loads) for more than five hours of operation. Operators should be able to process the cleaned clothing and return the used mesh bags to the laundry receiving point in that time. The multiple colors provide the flexibility of combining different units’ laundry in the same laundry drum. The different units are identified by the different colors.  There have been some complaints of clothing shrinkage. In all investigated cases, it was discovered that a few articles of clothing were processed in a single drum for the complete laundry cycle (40 minutes of dry time) at a very high heat (up to 160 degrees Fahrenheit). Smaller loads require reduced drying temperatures to avoid shrinkage. Drying temperatures can be modified at the beginning of each laundry cycle (160 degrees F to 110 degrees F in 5-degree increments). The default drying temperature is 160 degrees F. This is adequate for a full load of laundry of correctly filled mesh bags.      |
And all the time I thought they just sent it home to your mom. :-)
Morning Feather.
They had some of the funkiest water I ever came across.
Looks like they armored and jacked up one of the ten ten trucks.
Morning Aeronaut.
Working on Saturday! What's this world coming too?
Morning E.G.C.
Had rain most of yesterday. Everything's soggy again.
Not sure. Doubt if they have them at the Company level. My guess would be Regiment of Division, of course they just could have units assigned to an area of operations.
Morning PE.
:-)
Morning GailA.
Count your Blessings, you could be in Atlanta. ;-)
Morning Tax-Chick.
No truckee, no washee? ;-)
Hey Sam.
Whatever the market will bear ... I'm always surprised at how many people don't want to do laundry I average two loads a day, so I've learned to love it!
We could take it on vacation with us, and never have to go to the laundromat.
Me too. ;-(
Hiya Sam
Fox News Channel has been on and off on our cable for the past couple of hours. Not sure if it's due to satellite problems.
OU has a game today. OSU has a game tommorow.
Cloudy and cool here this morning. More precip in the forecast for tommorow.
How's it going, Snippy?
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on January 29:
1688 Emanuel Swedenborg Sweden, religious leader (Angelic Wisdom)
1700 Daniel Bernoulli Basel Switzerland, mathematician (10 time French award)
1711 Giuseppe Bonno composer
1717 Jeffrey Amherst English Governor-General of America/field marshal
1737 Thomas Paine political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason)
1756 Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee (Republican/Governor-VA)/General/cavalryman
1761 Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin Switzerland, US minister of Finance (1801-14)
1810 Earnest E Kummer German mathematician
1821 Isaac Ferdinand Quinby Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1823 Franklin Gardner Major-General (Civil War-fought at Shiloh & Port Hudson)
1836 Benjamin Franklin Potts Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1836 James Meech Warner Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1843 William McKinley Niles OH, (R) 25th President (1897-1901)
1850 Lawrence Hargrave inventor (box kite)
1860 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Tagarov Russia, playwright (Cherry Orchard)
1874 John David Rockefeller Jr Cleveland OH, philanthropist
1878 Barney Oldfield Ohio, daredevil
1880 W C Fields [William Claude Dukenfield] Philadelphia PA, actor (My Little Chickadee, Bank Dick)
1901 Allen B DuMont inventor (perfected commercial practical cathode ray tube)
1912 Professor Irwin Corey Brooklyn NY, comedian (Car Wash, Doc)
1913 Victor Mature Louisville KY, actor (One Million BC, The Robe, Samson & Delilah)
1918 John Forsythe New Jersey, actor (Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty)
1923 Paddy Chayevsky [Sydney], US, dramatist (Marty, Hospital)
1929 William McMillan US, rapid pistol (Olympics-gold-1960)
1939 Germaine Greer Melbourne Australia, feminist/author (Female Eunuch)
1942 Katharine Ross Hollywood CA, actress (Graduate)
1945 Tom Selleck Detroit MI, actor (Lance-Rockford Files, Magnum PI)
1952 Tommy Ramone [Thomas Erdelyi], Budapest Hungary, rock drummer/bassist [Ramones-Rock & Roll High School)
1954 Oprah Winfrey Kosciusko MI, actress/TV host (Color Purple, Oprah)
1959 Paul McGann actor (Dr Who)
GA High School shuns fallen Marine-Vanity
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Posted on 01/28/2005 8:20:31 PM CST by GeorgiaBushie
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1331097/posts
Sprayberry High School-Marietta, GA.
Jesus Fonseca Jr.
Pfc. Jesus Fonseca Jr., 19, of Marietta, died Monday, January 17, 2005 while defending his country in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. He is survived by his wife, Marlen of Jalisco, Mexico, his father, Jesus Fonseca, Sr., mother, Gloria Fonseca, sisters, Patricia Rodriguez, Gloria Fonseca, brothers, Jose Fonseca, Ricardo Fonseca, David Fonseca, all of Marietta, GA; many aunts, uncles nieces, nephews, friends and one grateful nation. The body will lie in state from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM Friday, January 28, 2005 at Transfiguration Catholic Church in Marietta, with a Catholic Funeral Mass to follow. The Monsignor, Patrick Bishop and Father, Fernando Ruge will conduct the service. The Community is invited to attend. Burial will be held in Degollado, Jalisco, Mexico with full military honors. The family would like to thank the community for their support, The United States Army and Political Dignitaries for their understanding and condolences. Floral offerings may be sent to Transfiguration Catholic Church. SouthCare Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements, 770-427-9292.
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Mr. Fonseca was a graduate (class of 2003) of Sprayberry High School. The funeral procession was planned to go by Sprayberry at 10:25am and pause for a few moments in front of his old high school.
Principal Susan Galante, acting on orders from higher-up's, did not allow students to go outside and pay their respects to their former student, friend and fallen soldier, citing a rule that banned more than one school function per day. (A pep rally was scheduled for later in the afternoon).
There were no announcements to the student to alert them that the procession was passing or to give them the opportunity to pay their respects other than a few teachers and coaches (2 or 3 teachers) alerting their individual students that the procession was heading by the school and allowing them to go outside.
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