Manuals Most Appreciated!

There were a number of things from the not terribly exciting Y2K exercise where everything, my job was actually to get the army ready for the millennium rollover and again I worked with a very small team of wonderful people and, you know, it was seamless. We were all sitting there going we hope this all works. It rolled ahead brilliantly. The planning and preparation, folks just dug in and made sure that it all went perfectly. To the more unusual situations overseas, one of the situations that pops out - the Americans gave the electrical company 250 trucks so that they would have the vehicles to be able to go around and repair power failures and do inspections and the like. But unfortunately American manuals are all only in English. I wrote back to a friend of mine who is in the electrical mechanical engineers and I asked him for one set of the maintenance manuals for the vehicles both from depot level repair all the way up to driver maintenance. And with this one set of books you would have thought that I had given the folks in Haiti more than the 250 trucks because Canadian manuals are bilingual, side by side. They were more overjoyed to get the one set of manuals then they were the 250 trucks because now they could keep them running and continue to do a great job and keep the lights on.