The Kipper Carpenter 's Hand Tool Set provides carpentry hand tools and support items for the completion of construction tasks in every theater of operations, packing and crating tasks, graves registration tasks, combat engineering tasks, and repair and utility tasks in all units. The Carpenter 's Tool Set represents a significant advance in soldier safety and comfort and productivity. The Tool Set contains the basic hand tools necessary for every carpentry type task, and is the base tool set module necessary to construct, erect, and rehabilitate all facilities.

Each carpenter is provided a grouping of individual tools that are most commonly used, a belt with holders and pouches to keep the tools close at hand. The belt is padded for working comfort and allowing the tools to be immediately at hand increases production.

The Tool Set supports four Soldiers (normally employed in two Soldier teams) with hammers, hatchets, hand saws, speed squares, pry bars, levels, chalk lines, utility knives, screw drivers, pliers, sanding blocks, measuring tapes and holders, putty knives, pencils, rasps, staple gun, fabric transport bags and adjustable wrenches in a weather tight box with instant inventory capability.

The Tool Set consists of COTS tools warranted by the manufacturer supplier that can be replaced through convenient web site and 1 800 telephone number, so replacing tools with specific make and model becomes easier and quicker. In the case of a Soldier losing or damaging tools this might be significant in that the Soldier can obtain a replacement without recourse to UCMJ, or other measures.

A Carpenter 's Tool Set is authorized to every company level unit in the Army. It is the principal item of equipment provided to general construction and combat engineer squads, packing and crating sections, shipping sections, confinement facilities, medical rehabilitation sections, and grave registration sections.

The Kipper Carpenter 's Hand Tool Set standardizes equipment and ILS supportability. It supports instant inventory and contains a permanently affixed diagram showing the location of each component in its loaded position and includes identification data.