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Date: December 15, 2010

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Coast Guard crewmembers conduct preventive maintenance

HONOLULU -- Crewmembers of the Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis, a 378-foot High Endurance Cutter, preform preventive maintenance pier-side on shipboard emergency equipment at Coast Guard Base Support Unit Honolulu, Dec. 14, 2010. Preventive maintenance is a schedule of planned maintenance actions with the primary goal of preventing the failure of equipment before it actually occurs. U.S. Coast Guard photo by PA3 Michael De Nyse.

HONOLULU --Crewmembers of the Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis, a 378-foot High Endurance Cutter homeported in Honolulu, perform preventive maintenance on shipboard emergency equipment at Base Support Unit, Honolulu, Dec. 14, 2010.
Preventive maintenance is common practice in the Coast Guard, because the schedule of planned repairs prevents the failure of equipment before it actually occurs.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by PA3 Michael De Nyse. 

 

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