Explanation of Columns - TM-32-5811-024-14-P0199

b. Source, Maintenance, and Recoverability Codes (SMR).

(1) Source Code. 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:

Code

Definition

Item procured and stocked for anticipated or known usage.

Item procured and stocked for insurance purpose because essentiality dictates that a minimum

antity be available in 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 issue or outfitting and stocked

only

for subsequent or additional initial issues or outfittings. Not subject to automatic replenishment.

Support equipment procured and stocked for initial issue or outfitting to specified maintenance

repair activities.

Support equipment which will not be stocked but which will be centrally procured on demand.

Item 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 a depot overhaul/repair kit and not purchased separately. Depot kit defined as a kit

that

provides items required at the time of overhaul or repair.

An item of a maintenance kit and not purchased separately. Maintenance kit defined as a kit that

provides an item that can be replaced at organizational or intermediate levels of maintenance.

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

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