21st Century U.S. Army Field Manuals: Watercraft Safety, FM 55-502 (CD-ROM)

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This unique electronic book on CD-ROM has a complete reproduction of the U.S. Army Field Manual, Watercraft Safety, FM 55-502 (251 pages). In addition, as a bonus, there are reproductions of over 100 vital U.S. Army Field Manuals covering such topics as combat, arms, operations, training, support, and dozens of special topics! This manual provides guidance and technical information relevant to safety and survival equipment/systems used by US Army watercraft. Safety and survival equipment/systems are identified in AR 56-9.The manual contains guidance, instructions, technical data, illustrations, and procedures pertinent to the application, inspection, modification, maintenance, and the use of safety equipment, safety policies, and survival systems. The primary users of this manual are watercraft masters and personnel. This manual will also be used by key personnel engaged in the supervision, operation, or maintenance of US Army watercraft. This manual provides an up-to-date, single source of guidance and technical information relevant to rescue equipment and survival systems and safety policies used on Army watercraft and by Army watercraft personnel. Because watercraft units do not have a specific position dedicated to maintenance of rescue and survival equipment, it may be advantageous for the commanding officer to designate, in writing, a person to manage the unit s rescue and survival equipment. It is not intended that this individual actually inspect or maintain the equipment but rather be responsible for administration and coordination of the various requirements set forth in the PMS outlined in this manual. The designated individual should be familiar with this manual and would in effect, become the unit s expert for this equipment. This manual contains guidance, instructions, technical data, drawings, illustrations, procedures, and descriptions pertinent to the configuration, modification, application, inspection, fabrication, maintenance and repair, and the use of rescue equipment and survival systems. Contents include: accident report, investigations, risk management, sailing order, lockout, tagout of energy sources, bloodborne pathogens and universal precautions, confined spaces, hot work, distress signals, emergency position indicating radio beacon, hypothermia protective clothing, stokes litter, personal flotation devices, personnel marker light, signal whistle, ring buoy, floating distress marker, inflatable life rafts, hydrostatic release device, wash stations, line throwing device, safety harness, safety shoe, heaving safety line, stretcher, breathing devices, water jel, first aid, fire fighting, fire fighting ensemble, dewatering firefighting pump, firehose, maneuvering data, much more. Our news and educational discs are privately compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed without untold hours of tedious research and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc format makes a great reference work and educational tool. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and portable - everything you need to know, from the federal sources you trust.

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