 It's complex, loud and expensive, but this vertical mill is paying for itself. The mill is a precise computer-controlled machine that can carve nearly any piece or part for army equipment like the Stryker Combat Vehicle. On such high-tech machines, even the smallest parts, like the bracket on the long-range advanced scout surveillance system, can carry a big price tag. If those cost $3,500 a piece, our initial order was for 20 of those. With just those 20 brackets for the LRAS, we paid for this $70,000 machine. That's because the vertical mill can produce that same $3,500 part for less than a dollar in materials and a fraction of the time it would take to order the part from a supplier, saving JBLM units time, the army money, keeping soldiers and their equipment mission ready. For the 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, I'm Army Sergeant Bryan Sprevin.