While I am waiting for a resupply of materials for the completion of the Alamo Forward, I decided to take care of some of the other projects that were put on the back burner. I make a weapons rack in the arms room to store the 240 Bravo machine guns on. Up till now, they have been just stacked on the floor and constantly in the way. It seemed that every time we needed something out the arms room, it happens to be just where the 240B's are setting. Well that is no more. I made a rack that can hold 26 of them and not be in the way of anything else.
Once I was finished with that, I started on a "shore board" I am not sure how to describe it except that it is a device that is used to measure babies' and young children's height. It is a board onto which you place the baby in the correct position and once you lower the top, the medics can determine the correct height of the child. I do not have any pictures of it yet, but, I will get some and post them at a later date. I will say this. I just saved the Government over $1000.00. As it turns out, the boards that I made cost around $425.00 EACH and it costs $150 a pair to ship.
The only reason this even happened was because it was going to take too long to get the company to ship it out here. I was approached by one of the medical company NCO's and asked if I knew any one that could possibly build a couple of these. I figured I would try. I turned out to be a real success. Just so you know, I love saving tax payer money. There is nothing more frustrating, to me, than to see how much we are charged for the simplest little thing once the seller discovers that it is the "government" that is footing the bill. The sad thing is that we are teaching this to the locals as well.
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