Originally Posted by
westhawk
We were still using MIL-H-5606E or F (more fire resistant than 5606A,B,C, or D I presume) in 1989 in US Army UH-60As,
We were flushing that crap out of the supply system in the late 80's: maybe the Navy were more paranoid about fires than the Army. I imagine DLA/supply sorts offered the Army the old "when we use up all the 5606 in the system you can order it under the same NSN and get 83282 ..." attrition based supply, flight safety be damned, DLA attitude. DLA still sends non conforming parts to the operating forces ... some stuff never changes.