Section I. PURPOSE AND SCOPE 1. Purpose a. Part I: Introduction to Maintenance. This part contains discussion of the concepts and This manual contains Army doctrine in the policies of maintenance management, the orfield of maintenance management. It is designed ganization for Army maintenance, the relationto provide a basis for appropriate courses of ship of maintenance to the life cycle of items in instruction in the Army school system, to furthe system, and maintenance support policies. nish definitive guidance for operating agencies in the field and to stimulate productive ap- b. Part II: Planning, Programing, Budgetproaches to maintenance management problems ing, and Funding for Maintenance.
DesignationFM 38-5
EditionNov 1961
StatusSuperseded
Pages182
FunctionSustainment
CollectionHistoric
Public domain (U.S. Government work)