----- Original Message -----
From: Ashley, Lew Civ AMCOB
To: 'Brad Paul Giordani'
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 5:01 PM
Subject: RE: FOR THE TECHNICAL EXPERTS AT RDECOM/ARDEC

Mr Giordani: Your letter has been referred to RDECOM for action. You may expect to hear from them.

Lew Ashley

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Paul Giordani militec@militec-1.com
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:05 PM
To: jan.finegan@us.army.mil; Jana.Tull@us.army.mil; lew.ashley@us.army.mil; john.obrien5@us.army.mil; benjamin-santos@us.army.mil; scott.crosson@us.army.mil
Cc: Russ Logan; Steve M Hilton; Ronald Perlman
Subject: FOR THE TECHNICAL EXPERTS AT RDECOM/ARDEC

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May 25, 2005

To: Lew Ashley
From: Brad P. Giordani, President
Subj: Info that will help you concerning the APG flour test

1. The simulated testing at APG should have tested the weapons dry lubricated instead of applying wet lubricants on the weapons for desert environments. Since that did not happen the proper performance baseline between a wet weapons performance in a controlled lab environment versus a dry weapons performance in desert conditions cannot be established. There are three (3) important areas that were not factored into this simulated desert testing, (A) Opposite user conditions (lab vs. field, APG vs. YUMA) (B) opposite application instructions, (wet vs. dry) and (C) different contaminates exposed to weapons, (silica mesh flour versus real sand). Weapons must be carried dry in desert environments or you have to constantly clean and re-lubricate every few hours or the fine dust particles will stick to the oil portion of the weapons. The friction points are the area of the weapon that are oiled, (a) sands sticks to oil, (b) the jammed weapons occur at the friction points (clogged with dust) inside weapons, and (c) dry/lubricated weapons are the only option for reducing jammed weapons. (nothing to stick too)

2. One of ARDEC's recent positions for weapons lubrication in a desert environment is: Apply CLP to gunmetal and then wipe off all excess CLP lubricant. The problem with doing this; in sustained gunfights there is not enough lubrication on the gunmetal to reduce temperatures.

3. Weapons must be carried dry (and sometimes covered) in desert environments to help avoid sand and dust contaminating the gunmetal. In desert environments wet oil traps dust particles to gunmetal like a magnet, where dry lubricated gunmetal does not. This is why the simulated test at APG produced the opposite results as our troop's After Action Reports (AAR's) from theater. The link to the May 15, 2003 PEO report is located at www.militec1.com/OperationIraqiFreedom.pdf

4. The reason Picatinny cannot update any weapon manuals for the proper application of lubricant to gunmetal is, (A) CLP cannot be used wet in a desert environment (traps dust) and (B) CLP is ineffective dry in a desert environment (lack of lubrication).

5. Col Smith (Picatinny/ARDEC) concluded in his SWAT report dated July 31, 2003 located @ www.militec1.com/swat.pdf - which elbow grease was the best lubricant for our troops to use in a desert environment. What ARDEC is saying in this hastily prepared report (that was never taken out of msword) is to keep your weapon lubricated with elbow grease, (because all lubes are the same) which leaves weapons unprotected. Col Smith also cited the PEO report of May 15, 2003.

6. MG Nadeau was asked questions May 19th about weapons lubrication. http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=9032 The general said, "Even if the manual says you should clean your weapon twice a day, if you've got time, clean it four times a day, if you've got more time, clean it eight times a day because the one time you didn't clean it may be the time it jams," Nadeau said.

"The tests were on four weapons systems covering handguns, rifles and machine guns... bottom line, end-state to the tests was that the superior performers in all categories turned out to be those products which were already approved by the Army," Nadeau said.

Nadeau cautions Soldiers using unauthorized CLPs that the product may work fine on Monday and Tuesday but by the time Friday rolls around the Soldier might have created a scenario he or she didn't see coming - "weapon failure, not on the range, but in a fire-fight."

There are also discussion in the stars and stripes http://www.militec.com/new_stuff.html about more CLP the better (ARDEC's position) vs. very little oil (soldier's position). We have also received over 25,000 emails since OEF and have shipped (DLA/MILITEC) over one-million bottles to our troops.

We sincerely appreciate this dialog with AMC and we stand ready to provide AMC with more facts to help our soldiers in harms way.

Brad P. Giordani
President