GENERAL

ARMY TM 5-6115-633-14&P

G E N E R A L : Source Codes are assigned to support items to indicate the manner of acquiring support

items for maintenance, repair, or overhaul of end items. Source codes are entered in the first and

second positions of the Uniform SMR Code format as follows:

Definition

Code

Item procured and stocked for anticipated or known usage.

I t e m procured and stocked for insurance purposes because

essentiality dictates that a minimum quantity be available

i n the supply systems.

Item procured and stocked and which otherwise would be coded

PA except that it is deteriorative in nature.

Support item, excluding support equipment, procured for initial

i s s u e or outfitting and stocked only for subsequent or

additional initial issues or outfittings. Not subject to auto-

matic replenishment.

Support equipment procured and stocked for initial issue or

outfittings to specified maintenance repair activities.

Support equipment which will not be stocked but which will be

centrally procured on demand.

I t e m procured and stocked to provide for sustained support for

the life of the equipment. It is applied to an item peculiar to the

equipment which because of probable discontinuance or shutdown

of production facilities would prove uneconomical to reproduce at

a later time.

An item of depot overhaul/repair kit and not purchased separ-

ately. Depot kit defined as a kit that provides items required

at the time of overhaul or repair.

An item of maintenance kit and not purchased separately.

Maintenance kit defined as a kit that provides an item that can

be replaced at unit or intermediate levels of maintenance.

Item included in both a depot overhaul/repair kit and a

maintenance

kit.

Item to be manufactured or fabricated at unit level.

Item to be manufactured or fabricated at intermediate

maintenance

levels.

A i r F o r c e - Intermediate

(*)

Army

- General Support (*)