The perils of using free sites for Mil Specs and Standards

There have been a number of sites cropping up on the Internet that offer U.S. military documents for free.  As with most free things, it’s buyer beware!

We speculate that these sites are being generated as a easy method for generating advertising revenue on the various Mil Spec and Standard numbers.  However, for the user of these sites, there are 2 major drawbacks to relying on them for your documentation.

1.  The sites are not maintained, so that the document you download may not be the correct and latest edition of the document.

2.  The sites do not offer monitoring services, so that when the document changes you are not going to be notified.

If you need to comply with military specifications and standards, you need Document Center Inc. to be your supplier of choice.  We have been selling these documents since 1982 and have a long history of providing customers with timely delivery at fair prices for these items.

We monitor over 400,000 standards for our customers, notifying them of changes either on a nightly or bi-monthly basis.  The notification service is either free with the purchase of the standard or can be purchased separately.

Just because a site claims to have “every spec” or “mil-standard” doesn’t mean it’s so.

Contact us at www.document-center.com, by phone (650-591-7600), fax (650-591-7617) or email (info@document-center.com).  Our standards experts can help you identify the correct document for your needs, and will help keep you up-to-date as well!

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Claudia Bach

Claudia Bach is the President of Document Center Inc. and a world-wide recognized expert on Standards and Standards Distribution. You can connect with her on Google+