BRAVO ZULU...BT...AR. Been a long time. I was also a Morse code operator. Learned that as an SM, flashing light. Still use semaphore to tease my grandkids too! I went to Great Mistakes, Ill. for Boot. Company 212, Color company May - Jul 1964.
Small world huh? I had broken service. When I went back in. They sent me to San Diego, RM-A school, then, Morse Operator with those lousy ROYAL TYPEWRITERS.
After I got to the fleet, 2nd Fleet, Norfolk. I went to Teletype Repair school...and before I retired in 95. They did away with them too.
I love to make Liberals Cry, and Whine.
So, this is for them.
GOD BLESS AMERICA - IN GOD WE TRUST !
TTY school for me was in 81, in Norfolk on what they used to call NOB (Naval Operating Base). Everything has changed these days.
I enjoyed the repair side a lot. Fact is. I still have a Mainshaft, with all of the clutches too. My friends called it my Retirement gift so I wouldn't get rusty, or bored
My NEC for TTY Repair died when they changed over to High Speed Printers that went along with NAVMACS.
Wonder how many remember that? And NEW DAY with the KWR-37's....TIME TIC....ANYONE?
I love to make Liberals Cry, and Whine.
So, this is for them.
GOD BLESS AMERICA - IN GOD WE TRUST !
all my active service was ship board. so i had to fix those machines at sea. ships out there bummed spare parts off each other and were exchanged during unreps. I fixed the UGC 28 page printers (100wpm) plus a UGC 6 which had the tape dispenser. that's the model I trained on at school.
just before i left to go home i heard rumors about a 500WPM machine called a burpie. never saw one.
we had 2 machines on fleet broadcast that ran 24/7. damned they were noisey
everythings went out on the Collins URC 32 tranceivers. we had 3 of these. ship board radio rooms were small and crowed with equipment.
Gotcha. Oh, what memories. Copying 4 channels of Broadcast, TERM, and TGO all within a tiny room, surrounded by Patch cords, crypto equipment, and those wonderful, confusing Switchboards. And what everybody forgot was...WE HAD TO KEEP THE PRINTERS running, tearing off YELLOW rolls of paper, and trying to STAY AWAKE while typing SUPPLY MESSAGES on the UGC-6 keyboard?
I once put all of the keys from a keyboard in a tray full of CLEANING FLUID..overnight.
Next day, when I got back to Radio...the keys were all SWELLED UP to double their size. BRAINFARTS always win.
Most people have NO IDEA how many parts there are in One Printer.
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I love to make Liberals Cry, and Whine.
So, this is for them.
GOD BLESS AMERICA - IN GOD WE TRUST !
Great, and funny photo. Reminded me of lots of long nights when that one, lousy setting just wouldn't stop skipping a SPACE, or Added an EXTRA LINE FEED.
Truth is. My Chief instructor joked about REMOVING all Hammers from Radio...except the SLEDGE HAMMER for Emergency Destruction.
I love to make Liberals Cry, and Whine.
So, this is for them.
GOD BLESS AMERICA - IN GOD WE TRUST !
US Army 1988-2014
75th, yes that 75th - although I was regularly detached from said unit to do things that we can't talk about. Things that never happened.
Sergeant Major.
I spent time overseas in Columbia, Panama, Iraq (twice), Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti, Central Africa Republic, Kenya, and Afghanistan (4 deployments total) and a handful of other places which won't be discussed.
“… the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face" - Pete Carroll.
SeaHawks? Steelers?.......or both (simultaneously)?
Seriously though.....you've done more by SERVING the military to gain recognition than ANY football player ever could in my book.
(NOTE: not latte' in hand).
NEVER MESS WITH AN
IRISH/SCOTT/ITALIAN CHEROKEE!
"A wise man is at the right hand but a fool is at the left." Ecclesiastes 10:2
"The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God" Psalms 53:1