TM 9-1575 Series
Technical Manuals
Depot-level deep dives on the watches worn in service: the history, the engineering, and the threads that tie a piece to the people who carried it. In the lineage of TM 9-1575, the 1945 War Department manual for servicing military timepieces.
TM 9-1575-0001The Long Watch
Inside the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Museum on Fort Bragg. From the Devil's Brigade to a man who counted nineteen hundred days in a cage, the lineage of American special operations turns out to be a story about time.
The JFK Special Warfare Museum holds the lineage of Army special operations, from the First Special Service Force to the Green Berets. Read it closely and it is also a museum about time: raids timed to the second, exfils measured in minutes, and one officer who survived 1,903 days as a prisoner by refusing to lose count.
TM 9-1575-0000Time as Ordnance
In 1945 the US War Department published a manual on how to service a watch. TM 9-1575 is the document this section is named for, and the reason.
Mid-war, the US Army published a depot-level manual on maintaining watches and clocks. TM 9-1575 is why this section carries the name: a watch in service is ordnance, maintained like a weapon, because the time it keeps is part of the fight.