Operations office cont'd

ADP facility.

The calibration company will receive from battalion

headquarters a list of units to be supported.

The units requesting

calibration service will submit a current list of TMDE requiring secondary

transfer/secondary reference level calibration service to the company

The operations office will review these calibration

requests and forward them to the supporting ADP facility for processing.

The supporting ADP facility will provide a master list of all TMDE by type

and quantity to be supported by the calibration company.

The equipment

density information can be derived from the ADP Master Record File

maintained at the ADP facility.

(b) Liaison is then established with supported units. One or more

liaison teams are dispatched to visit supported units. Usually the control

office will dispatch personnel of the transfer teams, since they will be

dealing directly with supported units.

Initial contact, though, is

established by a team normally headed by the operations officer or area

calibration liaison officer. This team will notify supported units of the

services that will be provided by the calibration company, will select sites

within supported unit areas that will facilitate transfer team operations,

and will inform supported units of what is expected of them in the way of

materiel and facilities when the transfer team mazes its visit.

(c) After liaison is established with supported units, the

calibration schedule can be established and an itinerary developed for each

transfer team with the transfer platoon headquarters. Each transfer team is

provided a list of units it will visit, a working deck of calibration data

cards TMDE scheduled for service, the location of units, necessary maps,

available information on road conditions or other facts that may impede

operations, dates of visits of each unit, duration of visits, and such other

information and instructions necessary.

(d) The calibration schedule will be supplied to the supporting

ADP facility as required by TM 38-750 to insure scheduling of equipment to

be calibrated and the preparation of calibration data cards by the ADP

facility.

(e) Calibration scheduling and the itinerary of each team's trip

is dependent on the density and types of equipment supported, the distance

between units or activities to be served, the calibration interval and the

time involved to calibrate equipment at each stop, the geographical area to

be covered, and the number and types of units or activities within the area

requiring calibration service. The frequency of calibration for each type

of TMDE is established by TB 43-180 or from instructions received from the

Army Metrology and Calibration Center.

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