additional quantities of mission-type items already
(3) TM 5-303, Bills of Materials and
contained in TOE's as well as special equipment
Equipment of the Army Facilities Components
System. This manual contains complete bills of
required for specific tasks. Each equipage is coded
materials for each facility covered by staff tables in
with the letter E and a five-digit number.
TM 5-301 and by the drawings in TM 5-302, as well
as equipages for various construction tasks in specific
manuals mentioned above is indexed in such a
climates. It also provides material costs and the
manner as to enable the user to readily locate the
logistical data concerning engineer effort, weight,
installations and/or facilities required to support most
and cubage requirements as in TM 5-301.
military operations, independent of each other.
c. Organization. In the application of the
However, in the use of TM 5302 and TM 5303, it is
AFCS, it is important to remember that it is based on
more expedient to:
an orderly grouping of successively larger increments
(a) First, refer to the index of TM
so that planning can be done by functional groupings
5-301.
rather than by individual items. In this respect AFCS
uses a system of coding to permit exploitation of
(b) Second, locate the staff table
ADP equipment. The system establishes three
pertinent to the required installation, facility or
groups: installations, facilities, and equipages.
equipage.
(1) Installations.
The
largest
(c) Third, identify by coding and
groupings in AFCS are installations - a balanced
then refer to TM 5-302 for drawings and TM 5-303
grouping of facilities in support of a particular major
for bills of materials as appropriate.
function.
The breakdown of installations into
d. Key to coding.
facilities permits the tailoring of installations to meet
particular situations. Each installation is identified
(1) Installations.
Installations are
by a code consisting of one to three capital letters and
identified by a code consisting of one, two, or three
four numbers made up of one whole number and
letters of the alphabet followed by a four-digit
three decimals.
number consisting of one whole number and three
(2) Facilities. The basic elements of
the AFCS are facilities - a grouping of items
Example - NT-1.131 would be a Troop Camp, 250
consisting primarily of construction material in the
Man, Temperate Climate Standard 3, New
quantities required to provide a specific service.
Construction, Steel Frame Buildings.
Each facility is coded with a six-digit number. The
(a) Letter codes. The first letter
first four digits of the facility code number group
of an installation classifies it according to its
similar functional facilities together, and also
functional grouping as follows:
constitute the drawing number of the facility as
A - Administration
presented in TM 5-302. The last two numbers of the
D - General Supply
six-digit code identify the bill of materials table for
F - Transportation
the facility.
G - Medical
(3) Equipages. Equipage lists consist
H - Aviation
primarily of nonexpendable construction equipment.
J - Shops
They are designed to assist planners in developing
N - Camps
equipment augmentation to TOE equipment to
P - Utility Plants
provide engineer units and civilian labor units with
Q - Bulk POL
the capabilities of efficiently performing specific
S - Special
construction tasks in specific climates. Equipage lists
Additional letters identifying subgroupings are used
are based on sustained operations on a given task for
to simplify use of the system. These
periods of two to three months. They specify
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