CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Section I. GENERAL
AMSME-MPP4300 Goodfellow Boulevard, St. Louis,
1-1. Scope
Missouri 63120. A reply will be furnished directly to you.
This manual is for your use in erecting, striking, and
maintaining the shelter-half tent and the two- man
mountain tent.
1-4. Equipment Serviceability Criteria (ESC'S)
This equipment is not covered by an ESC.
1-2. Forms and Records
Maintenance forms and records that you are required to
1-5. Destruction of Army Materiel to Prevent Enemy
use are explained in TM 38-750.
Use
Procedures to be used for destruction of the equipment
1-3. Reporting of Errors
to prevent enemy use are in TM 750- 244-3.
You can improve this manual by calling attention to
errors and by recommending improvements, using DA
1-6. Administrative Storage
Form 2028 (Recommended Changes to Publications) or
For administrative storage instructions. refer to TM
by letter, and mail directly to the Commanding General,
740-90-1.
U. S. Army Mobility Equipment Command, ATTN:
Section II. DESCRIPTION AND DATA
1-7. Description
The pinnacle of the tent is formed with a pole at each
a. Tent. Shelter-half. This tent is fabricated essentially
end, and the sides are secured to the ground with pins
of 7.5 ounce cotton / rayon duck. When joined to
placed through the footstops (fig. 1-1).
The
another tent. shelter-half, new type, it forms a shelter
maintenance paragraphs of this manual contain detailed
for two men. Snaps are provided along the lower edge
descriptions of the tent and its components.
of the shelter half to permit six shelter-halves to be
joined together to make a six-man tent.
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