363TFW INTERVIEW OF CAPT FISHER, 21-27 OCTOBER 1990

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 begin with. Not too many people were drinking it. It was
 good for showering and getting cleaned up.
 
 One of the big efforts we are making right now is to replace
 all the Harvest Falcon assets, which are supposed to be good
 up to 6 months but, with the amount of use they are getting,
 aren't lasting very well. We are replacing all those units
 with either prefabricated trailers that have showers and in the
  middle of building our first bathhouse, which will be a
 permanent structure for people to take showers and use the
 sinks and latrines in. One of the things we found was that
 the Harvest Falcon assets, the shower units that come out of
 prepo, have these diaphragm pumps that come with them. The
 diaphragms, obviously, being made out of rubber and being
 stored for several years, wore out much quicker than people
 anticipated. Many of them didn't last 30 days. With the
 usage on them and it just being dry conditions, they didn't
 last long. Once those diaphragms went bad, there were no
 replacements. One of the things we identified when we were
 on our other deployments was there needed to be WRSK kits
 for the pumps, for the generators, for the air conditioners,
 and what have you. None of the WRSK kits have ever really
 been established in theater for the prepositioned assets.
 As these things started breaking, there was no way of
 repairing them, so we had to mre or less jerry rig or fix 
 or do whatever we could. What we ended up doing with the
 showers was that we went downtown and bought other pumps and
 rewired different local pumps into our shower lines and are
 using them until we can get these other unit on line.
 Because we are using pumps that really aren't intended for
 that use, we have to tear them down about once a day and
 clean them and fix them. The pumps we have aren't really
 designed for pumping the water and stuff that would come out
 
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