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January 20th 04, 12:34 PM

(Len Over 21) wrote in message ...
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(Stebe, suffering yet another Powerful Marine Syndrome attack) writes:

It wasn't YOUR station, Lennie...It was a facility of the United
States Army.

Tsk, tsk, tsk...still sore and pished because I had the opportunity
while in my military service yet you did not?

But I did, Lennie. Had fun, too, but it still wasn't MY station
(save for being NCOIC of the facility)...It was the Marine Corps', and
they provided more than adequate instruction on how it was to be set
up and what they expected from it.

Therein lies the difference between you and I...

ADA was...(SNIPPED)

Yadayadayada...same old drivvel.

They could have just as easily made you a diesel
mechanic...Perhaps then you would have been harrassing the
professional truck drivers.

No, the Army could NOT "do that as easily." I was sent to the
Fort Monmouth Signal School for several months of microwave
radio relay training after Basic. Diesel mechanics were trained
in several other school locations.

And the Army COULD have sent you to diesel mechanic school, jst as
easily as the USMC could have sent me to it...It's thier game.

ADA did have several...(SNIPPED)

Yadayadayada...

More ranting on about a 1950's era event that has NO relevence to
MODERN Amateur Radio.

Yes, "senior NCOs taught us" and said "do this." This is normal in
a work environment were supervisors also teach and say "do that."
Somehow you find that deplorable?

Absolutely not.

YOU do, however, since you have, on several occasions, tried to
insinusate that YOU set up a "KW trans-Pacific" radio station on the
Army's behalf.

I learned all that was required (and more) on-the-job and later
became an "NCO" who said "do this (or that)."

Congratuations.

That was all before Stebe was born. It must make him very angry
and furious that anyone actually did those things before his life
experience began.

Nope. Not at all.

What I find FUNNY is that you repeatedly try to insinuate that
YOU were somehow singlehandedly responsible for all of the
accomplishments at ADA.

Shall we revist YOUR assertion of how you passed "1.2 million
messages"...?!?!

I still honor the men and women of my Battalion, knowing the history
from first unit formation to changes through today. I am proud of
what I did, of my fellow signalmen for "getting the messages
through." We did it. It's on record, including two Presidential Unit
Citations. Callsign ADA still exists, now that of U.S. Army Pacific
Headquarters at Fort Shafter, Hawaii.

People do not Honor their comrades-in-arms by trying to make it
appear as though THEY were the sole reason the US Army Signal Corps
was able to pass HF radio traffic in the 1950's.

And people do not Honor thier comrades-in-arms by trying to
garner newsgroup message points by trying to associate THIER Army
"career" with the blood shed by soldiers KIA three years before they
were in-theater.

Lennie...The only person you try to "honor" is yourself, and
you've already proven that THAT is a waste of energy.

Steve, K4YZ