CSM Mellinger Attacking MILITEC-1

CSM Mellinger wrote:  "As recently as this week, I spoke to the assembled nominative command
 sergeants major in El Paso, and informed them that this product is not
 authorized for use on military weapons, and am in the process of reissuing
 the Ground Precautionary Message, the Ground Advisory Message and the FOUO
 study clearly showing that your product and dry lube causes over ten times
 the malfunctions of properly lubricated weapons".

CSM Quote above is based on one test done by RDECOM which is part of  AMC. My first Blog on this subject was about changing a twenty year old mandate, all because of one laboratory test that does not correlate to conditions found in theater. So why would the CSM and others change course after one test that has disclaimers? Mellinger made to the rank of  CSM be cause he follows the civilian leader (s) and is more concerned about upholding the status quo than supporting the soldier. Of course the CSM would disagree and would say all of these wonderful things he does for soldiers in combat. However, the reports from theater and 30,000 plus emails claims the opposite of Mellinger.

 

Question: Do you believe the thousands and thousands of soldiers who have emailed us and asked for help so their weapons do not jam, or do you believe the CSM who claims there are Zero problems in combat with supplies and equipment failures?

 ----- Original Message -----

From: "Mellinger, Jeffrey J CSM MIL USA AMC" <jeffrey.mellinger@us.army.mil>

To: "Mellinger, Jeffrey J CSM MIL USA AMC" <jeffrey.mellinger@us.army.mil>; lee.kind@flour.com>; <militec@militec1.com>

Cc: "Aubain, Anthony T CSM MIL USA HQDA DCS G-4" anthony.aubain@us.army.mil>; "Buller, Justin Mr CIV USA AMC" justin.buller@us.army.mil>; "Huntley, Henry COL MIL USA" henry.huntley@us.army.mil>

Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 1:17 PM

Subject: RE: Attributable (UNCLASSIFIED)

 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
 Caveats: NONE
 
 Gentlemen,
 
 I see I made an error below.  Please note that it is differing types of
 lubrication (dry, moderate and generous) that was the subject of the study
 and used to identify dry lube as the cause of high malfunction rates.  You
 market your product as a dry lube, so I want to be sure that the study does
 not mention your product Militec-1 by name, but refers in general to dry
 lubricants.  Regardless, Militec-1 is not an authorized lubricant for Army
 weapons.  As we spoke on 9 November, getting it authorized is a simple thing
 - ensure lubricants offered for use as weapons lubricants meets MilSpecs.
 
 Respectfully,
 
 Jeff Mellinger
 CSM, USA
 Army Materiel Command
 
 
 -----Original Message-----
 From: Mellinger, Jeffrey J CSM MIL USA AMC
 Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 1:09 PM
 To: 'lee.kind@flour.com'; 'militec@militec1.com'
 Cc: Aubain, Anthony T CSM MIL USA HQDA DCS G-4; Buller, Justin Mr CIV USA
 AMC; Huntley, Henry COL MIL USA
 Subject: Attributable (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
 Caveats: NONE
 
 Gentlemen,
 
 I spoke with CSM Aubain on Wednesday, 13 January 2009, and as I suspected he
 would, he told me he never said any such things as you claim he said in your
 attached email (which Mr. Giordani and Mr. Logan gave me when they visited
 me in my office on 9 November, 2009).
 
 Please refrain from continuing to tell people that our senior leaders say
 things they do not.
 
 The product called Militec-1 is not an authorized lubricant for military
 weapons, has been proven unable to meet military specifications, and has in
 fact been listed as unauthorized for use on Army weapons.  Regardless of
 whether or how many individual Soldiers continue to ask for free samples,
 the product is not authorized for use on weapons.
 
 As recently as this week, I spoke to the assembled nominative command
 sergeants major in El Paso, and informed them that this product is not
 authorized for use on military weapons, and am in the process of reissuing
 the Ground Precautionary Message, the Ground Advisory Message and the FOUO
 study clearly showing that your product and dry lube causes over ten times
 the malfunctions of properly lubricated weapons.
 
Respectfully,
 
Jeff Mellinger
CSM, USA
Army Materiel Command
 
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

 
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE