l-l. Purpose and Scope a. This manual presents Department of the Army approved procedures for the transport of the Pershing II warhead section, in the M620 shipping and b. storage container, by US Army helicopters. NOTE Throughout this manual, wherever "the M620 container" or "the container" is mentioned, it is meant to be the M620 shipping and storage container with the Pershing II warhead section inside. The transport procedures in this manual apply when one or more M620 containers are transported in the cargo compartment of the CH-47 helicopter, or in the universal military pod attached to the CH-54 helicopter, or as a sling load by the UH-lH, UH-60, CH-47, or CH-54 helicopter. Materials and people needed to prepare, load, tie down, and unload, or rig and derig, the containers are prescribed in this manual. c.
DesignationFM 55-386
EditionAug 1988
StatusSuperseded
Pages30
FunctionSustainment
EchelonSquad
CollectionRecent Archive
Public domain (U.S. Government work)