Some outfits are making a sloppy "serial stew" out of their equipment records.
 They fail to cross-check serial numbers with equipment data plates and block 4
of DA 2408-8. It makes a mish-mash of all their records.
 If the form is one like DA
2408-7 and covers an end item, THE SE
the serial number needed is the NUMBERS om
number for the end item-not T E
one of its components. DATA PLATES
 AND THE
 When the form is one like 24
DA 2410 and covers only a MUST
component, use only the com- y AGREE.
ponent serial number.


 (Some common end items don't have serial numbers. In these unusual cases,
pluck the "control number" from the upper left of DA 2408-8 and put it in the
serial number block, too. This becomes the end item serial number from now
on-for DA 2408-8 and all other records.)
 To make sure you're not in a serial number stew:
 1.(hc tireedi te clut glt und mok suetesro nm e hr o steoei
 blc 4 of DA 24 8- (or blc 3o DA2 0 ifyuhv t in o ofo-)
 2.I thx tieyum k uIm te om (ieDA20- rD 47 rntn o h
 en item, mok suetenm e nte' ro u br lc oce h n nbok4o