Fix-it team lets reservists focus on training

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Fix-it team lets reservists focus on training
By Trista Talton - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday May 6, 2008 6:21:39 EDT

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — The Corps has launched a test program to help Reserve units maximize their training time.

A mobile maintenance team — a test-bed of traveling Marines and civilians from Marine Corps Logistics Base, Albany, Ga. — arrived in Florida on April 7 to begin preventive maintenance on ground equipment that belongs to a Hialeah-based Reserve company.

The team, led by a gunnery sergeant and made up mostly of civilians who work at Maintenance Center Albany, will travel to four different Reserve sites in the Sunshine State to conduct maintenance through May, said Chief Warrant Officer 3 Eric Gilmer, head of the MMT.

“They’re going to do preventive maintenance checks and service on their motor transport and heavy equipment at each site,” he said.

That, in turn, allows Reserve Marines, who operate on a 39-day-a-year training schedule, to focus more on training during that time.


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