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Txjake · #1 07-24-2007, 01:41 PM

Age and veteran status:

age 50, US Army, commisioned officer, 20 years service. Served in Desert Storm, Somalia & Bosnia.

Medmech · #2 07-24-2007, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Txjake

Age and veteran status:

age 50, US Army, commisioned officer, 20 years service. Served in Desert Storm, Somalia & Bosnia.

HooAhhhh

My avatar pretty much spells out my stuff, I'd say more but there are so many losers lurking the boards I have found its best keeping it amongst PM's and friends.

TX76513 · #3 07-24-2007, 02:03 PM

71 -73 Army as a 351L

Medmech · #4 07-24-2007, 02:06 PM

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71 -73 Army as a 351L

good ol SAEDA, I drooled on many desks listening to those folks and the films were worse than drivers ed.

TX76513 · #5 07-24-2007, 02:13 PM

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good ol SAEDA, I drooled on many desks listening to those folks and the films were worse than drivers ed.

LOL that brings back a Black and White Memory. Remember the SMLM flicks? That was my gig

Medmech · #6 07-24-2007, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by TX76513

LOL that brings back a Black and White Memory. Remember the SMLM flicks? That was my gig

I recall about seeing them about the first 15 times upright and the next fifteen in the front leaning rest.

I'm not sure of the SMLM refresh my memory please.

Edit: were those the flicks of the daily life of a Russian Soldier?

dynalow · #7 07-24-2007, 02:51 PM

USNR 1965-1971
Active duty 1965-1967
USS AMERICA CVA-66
"Don't tread on Me"
Call sign "Courage"
Served in the Communications Dept. (teletype ckt. operator.)
USS America and USS Little Rock, CLG 4 alongside USS Liberty, AGTR5, June 9, 1967, the day after she was attacked by Israeli planes and gunboats.

America as seen from USS Liberty June 9, 1967.

Memorial service June 10, 1967 for the killed and injured crewmembers of USS Liberty.

Only EM in the family...and proud of it.

TX76513 · #8 07-24-2007, 03:01 PM

Served in the Communications Dept. (teletype ckt. operator.)

The days of the TT98 and TT76

dynalow · #9 07-24-2007, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by TX76513

Served in the Communications Dept. (teletype ckt. operator.)

The days of the TT98 and TT76

Snails paced stuff by today's standards. IIRC, they were 100wpm. I ran the ship/shore secure tty ckt. Crypto gear was the KW-26.
I always wondered if Walker compromised them?

TX76513 · #10 07-24-2007, 03:12 PM

Was the KW26 the one with the 8 inch square box that had all those pins that had to be set.......then the tuning signal, yea wasn't it a freakin Magnavox or soemthing like that

dynalow · #11 07-24-2007, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by TX76513

Was the KW26 the one with the 8 inch square box that had all those pins that had to be set.......then the tuning signal, yea wasn't it a freakin Magnavox or soemthing like that

I only know the model we had, which, since she was the newest carrier in the fleet (

), I assume was state of the art.

We had cards which had to be reset every day at 00:00:00 simultaneously with the other station. Other than that, normally, the gizzards of the thing were left alone unless they malfunctioned. Then they were a ***** and a half. We had two of them. We had two guys who had gone to school for them, and they had to keep them running. I recall now that one time we reeeealllly had problems. The commo was all over the RM1. He kept mumbling about the #%?@^! pins

Took a long time to fix that one and I don't remember exactly how they did it. Not like we had a bunch of spare parts lying around!

TX76513 · #12 07-24-2007, 03:46 PM

You know you're making me use parts of my brain that havent been used in a few decades. It was a Romulus and when it crashed it H J 'd

Obnoxio · #13 07-24-2007, 03:47 PM

USN Active duty 1989-1999. Medically retired June 1999. Desert Storm vet.

Hospital Corpsman Third Class

Search and Rescue Medical technician, MCAS Cherry Point, PEDRO CH-46D

MCAS New River: MAG-29, HML/A-269, HMM-365, HMT-204, HMM-162

Various Naval Hospitals

USS Moosbrugger DD-980 as a Deck Seaman.

Go Navy! I would have done the full 20 if that front tire hadnt blown on my Moto Guzzi.

Medmech · #14 07-24-2007, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by TX76513

Was the KW26 the one with the 8 inch square box that had all those pins that had to be set.......then the tuning signal, yea wasn't it a freakin Magnavox or soemthing like that

That was the KG-26. I remember trying to set those pins in between moves bouncing down the road in a Gamma Goat.

Big secret then -Ebay sensation now.

Medmech · #15 07-24-2007, 03:49 PM

I think it's wild that most of us were in Commo.