“Biggest impact of X operations was the unstow and restow... Don’t think they understood how much overhead was involved. Gave them lots of pictures and movies, before, during, and after to help them get an idea.”

“X and Y did a great job on the Progress trash gather. We’ve been swimming in trash for months and it will be great to have some free space again.”

“I did some serious cleaning – pulling tape and Velcro off of walls, straightening up modules, throwing out anything that didn’t look like it had a purpose. Some stuff has been there for years.”

“Stowage is one area that deserves some attention, because ground doesn’t really understand the problems of gathering equipment from multiple locations and tying it down for use at a work site. Walls are already cluttered, and it’s hard to organize a location nearby.”

“I look up the location of the next bag of breads available, hunt it down in another module, bring it back to our "table," bar code it, bar code the pantry location where it's going, separate out the breads which for some reason are packaged with "rehydratable meats," get those corralled into separate bags and stowed away in the pantry, and then eat.”

“Most items are buried deep in bags, sometimes three or four deep. Inside a locker, there is a CTB, inside of which is a kit, which has a Ziploc with a tool inside. This can really add to the cost of doing business.”

“You will start packing one area, get done with that, you think, and put stuff in the next area, which you find out doesn't match up… It took a lot longer than it would have if we had a Big Picture of how things were [supposed to fit].”