From: Frank Gilliland on Aug 24, 3:54 pm

On 24 Aug 2005 14:44:41 -0700, "
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Dudly LOVES uniforms. On himself. Scrubs, cammies, or a
one-piece "flight suit." Doesn't matter...as long as it
makes him look IMPORTANT. He be a "somebody."

Classic narcissism -- he thinks the uniform will command the respect
he thinks he deserves. And by looking through a few of his posts it
looks like he has a 'wannabe-hero' complex as well.

Heh heh. It comes out in some of his other remarks, notably the
personal insult kind: "You think you're so important!" - I've
never assumed MY "importance" in much of anything done over the
last seven decades. Dudly remarked more than once that "I just
swept floors in aerospace [industry]" or that I was "just a
technician." Well, I HAVE swept a floor or two and, in early
years was an electronics technician but I worked my way up to
being a Senior Engineering Staff employee with a load of
responsibilities such as being the final sign-off on drawings'
title blocks for a project I was assigned to, as engineer or
project engineer. Those are typical remarks Dudly tried to put
down in here. He wants to diminish ANY accomplishments of others
that he deems are his "opponents."

Dudly went on at great length about how Ham Radio magazine went
"defunct" after I was on its staff as Associate Editor. Ham Radio
was IN BUSINESS for 22 years as an independent ham radio oriented
monthly. It is still regarded as the superior periodical for
radio technology (in practical and theoretical ways) in North
America. It never had the support of an entire membership
organization to back them up monetarily (as does QST or QEX). The
advertising monies were tightening up in the late 1980s and, without
ad sales, an independent periodical can't operate. Seeing the
handwriting on the ledger sheet, co-founder Publisher Skip Tenney
decided to sell everything to CQ in 1990. CQ would have to drop its
spin-off monthly, "CQ VHF", due to less and less ad sales. Even
"73" magazine had to shut down completely. BUSINESS conditions.
Dudly (and a few other duds in here) snarled and spouted about
"defunct! defunct!" like it was a moral-negative condition. Both
CQ and ARRL still sell 3-disk CD sets of all 22 years of Ham
Radio's articles for $150. Not quite as "defunct" as they want
to demonstrate.

But I really think
this newsgroup facade is just the tip of the iceberg. How much you
wanna bet he has a Crown Victoria with door-mounted spotlights and a
light bar in the trunk?

Heh heh heh...I wouldn't bet against it... :-)

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If the
-real- Gunny Robeson is K4YZ then this imposter is stealing both his
military history -and- his amateur status.

Not an idle matter for military.

Certainly not. The Master Gunny I called up the other day was really
adamant about checking out Dudly's story.

In this Los Angeles area, it's not unusual to have a few dozen
Crown Vics all dolled up as "official 'to protect and serve'"
police cars. Several rental companies have them for movies and
TV location shooting. A grip I met once said he'd bought a
banged-up prop cop car from a rental company for his personal
vehicle...said he made a mistake of keeping the paint black and
white and the slogan on the side (but not the Mars Light bar or
the City of L.A. logo on the door)...a BIG mistake he said...he
got tickets for ALL kinds of things, moving and stationary
violations, was hauled out and frisked more than once. He had
to spend extra money to repaint the car "more civilian." Was a
good vehicle even when he had to install smog controls that went
into effect here (real cop cars were exempt from that). LAPD are
fussy about imitators here, even IN the entertainment industry,
and DO do things about those who are pretenders.

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A DD 214 form has been relatively unchanged
in 50 years,

While I was hashing out Kerry's record with Dave Hall (N3CVJ) it
became obvious that the DD-214 was used for both discharges -and-
transfers until around 1980 (official title: "Report of Transfer or
Discharge"). That's how the Rove/Bush campaign managed to confuse the
public regarding Kerry's service -- using shill blogs (and sheople
like N3CVJ) to suggest that Kerry's records were somehow forged or
faked. Anyway, Gunny Robeson should have more than one DD-214. Dudly
has claimed to have only one. Looks like he flunked again.

I was referring to the general nature of the form. :-)

Can't help you on later editions. My single DD-214 form is dated
1 Jul 52 and was filled in at Fort Sheridan, IL, in February 1956.
Back then its title was "Report of Separation From the Armed Forces
of the United States." Other than an acknowledgement from the
Winnebago County, IL, draft board on status change to "reserve"
(inactive) received shortly thereafter, the only other form I got
was the Honorable Discharge certificate in April 1960. Not a fancy
certificate, either...:-)

I carry around a credit-card-size reduction of my DD-214 for fun,
have used it as local proof (needs a magnifying glass to see the
detail). Once got into a conversation with a Vietvet at a party
who had gotten a similar laminated reduction...he got out in '74...
we compared forms and they seemed to be very nearly identical.

for example...the major change being in that old
military records were typed in by manual typists...as were old
government forms such as license certificates. It is almost
IMPOSSIBLE to fake/substitute/distort old books and periodicals
that were printed in thousands of identical copies and
distributed to subscribers, libraries, and stores. Nearly all
old documents can be scanned, digitized for distribution as
proof of something...or xerocopied at a nickel a page.

I have a microfiche copy of both my SRB and medical records. They were
sent to me after my final discharge. It's pretty hard to retouch a
hundred or so pages crammed onto a 4' x 5' negative.

Ow! Mass-reduction 'fiche! I'm used to the "IBM punch card 'fiche"
which have only one image on the card, for drawings...or the library
style 'fiche film reels, one newspaper-page-size image per frame.

per fil