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speciication shall become a part of the contractor s overall inspection system or quality program. The
absence of any requirements in this speciication shall not relieve the contractor of the responsibility of
ensuring that all products or supplies, submitted to the government for acceptance, comply with all
requirements of the contract. Use of sampling inspections shall be at the discretion of the contractor, and in
accordance with commercially acceptable quality assurance procedures. However, use of sampling in QA
procedures does not authorize submission of known defective material, either indicated or actual, nor does it
commit the government to accept defective material.
PACKAGING
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5.1 Packaging. For acquisition purposes, the packaging requirements shall be as speciied in the contract or
order (see 6.2). When packaging of materiel is to be performed by DoD or in-house contractor personnel,
these personnel need to contact the responsible packaging activity to ascertain packaging requirements.
Packaging requirements are maintained by the Inventory Control Point s packaging activities within the
Military Service or Defense Agency, or within the military service s system commands. Packaging data
retrieval is available from the managing Military Department s or Defense Agency s automated packaging
iles, CD-ROM products, or by contacting the responsible packaging activity.
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(This section contains information of a general or explanatory nature that may be helpful, but is not mandatory.)
6.1 Intended use. Manuals and checklists prepared in accordance with this document are intended for
use in properly loading, securing loads, and off-loading cargo. They are speciic to military cargo
aircraft and are military unique in that they are used in combat related conditions as well as contain
information on airdrop of personnel and cargo.
6.2 Acquisition requirements. Acquisition documents must specify the following:
a. Title, number, and date of this document.
b. If arrangement of chapters and sections are other than as speciied in this document (3.1.1).
c. If load planning is other than as speciied in this document (3.2.5.1).
d. If arrangement of chapter 5 is other than as speciied in this document (3.2.6).
e. If foldout pages (print presentation only) are required for loorplans (see 3.2.7.2).
f. If chapter 7, section arrangement is to be other than as speciied in this document (3.2.8).
g. If chapter 2 is to contain loading and off-loading procedures common to all nuclear weapon
cargo (3.3.2).
h. If chapter 6 emergency procedures are other than as speciied in this document (3.3.6).
i. If checklists are to be prepared as speciied in this document (3.4).
6.3 Technical manuals. The requirement for TMs should be considered when this speciication is applied on
a contract. If TMs are required, speciications and standards that have been authorized and assigned an
Acquisition Management Systems Control (AMSC) number must be listed on a separate Contract Data
Requirements List (DD Form 1423), which is included as an exhibit to the contract. The TMs must be
acquired under separate contract line item in the contract.
6.4 Deinitions. To clarify the terms used throughout this speciication, the following deinitions are given:
6.4.1 Cargo requiring speciic procedures. Items that are transportable but require special instructions
regarding loading procedures, restraint, shoring, restricted locations in the aircraft, or which may be
transportable if partially disassembled.
6.5 Subject term (key word) listing.
Aircraft coniguration
Airdrop procedures
Emergency procedures
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