MCRP 3-40E.1 governs recovery and nonstandard repair operations, including battle damage assessment, rigging, and safety precautions.
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MCRP 3-40E.1 covers maintenance planning, recovery techniques, battle damage assessment and repair, rigging, mechanical advantage, and multinational operations. It requires nonstandard repairs to be authorized and documented and addresses procedures for recording and reporting battle damage repairs.
Recovery operations and nonstandard repairs are separate yet interrelated subsets of maintenance. Both are the owning unit’s responsibility, and both have a fundamental purpose of returning equipment to service as soon as possible.
Commanders accept the risk and are responsible for ensuring all nonstandard repairs are authorized and documented.
On the battlefield, the battle damage repair objective is to return the system to an operational condition with enough combat capability to get the mission accomplished. (paragraph 1-48)
If a broken component does not affect the ability to shoot, move, or communicate, and does not pose a serious safety concern, maintainers can postpone maintenance. (paragraph 1-48)
Recovery personnel utilize only equipment (tackle, shackles, chains, cables, or ropes) rated to handle the required force, pulling force, and load they will be subject to during recovery. (paragraph 6-115)