On Mar 29, 10:19 pm, "AF6AY" wrote:
On Mar 29, 3:08?am, wrote:

On Mar 29, 12:18 am, Dave Heil wrote:

AF6AY wrote:
On Mar 27, 5:19?pm, wrote:
They gave a war back in the day... ?Miccolis didn't show up then,
either.

? ?True, but he KNOWS ALL ABOUT it. ?Sigh...and isn't reticent
? ?about chiding volunteer military veterans. ?:-(

Neither are you or hot-ham-and-cheese, old sojer. ?You two act like
you're super citizens whose military service has elevated you above others.

Heil has no problem denigrating servicemen. ?Why doesn't he mention
that?

Heil has a great number of problems. :-)

He's got a kook for a neighbor.

Just a couple of days ago you ridiculed someone who wrote about the
Vietnam War Memorial. ?

Just a couple of days ago I thanked that individual for his service.
That doesn't mean that I approve of the memorial.

Ahem, one of those was super-patriot-phrase-shouting "No
Call Sign Given" who supposedly was "IN" the 101st
Airborne. It had all the earmarks of Major Dud, famous
for his gratuitous emotional phrase tossing. :-)

Accepting thanks for a deed not performed shows not honor.

You bleated something about Korea. ?

You bleated something about running for the Roanoke Division
Directorship. ?How's your nomination coming?

He may have only 1 nomination vote. shrug

A Division of One!

You didn't
serve in Korea during the Korean War. ?

You didn't serve in Korea.

As far as I'm concerned, Heil hasn't shown us ANY proof
that He was in southeast Asia during his military service.

I believe him. Then there was the American Embassy in Tanzania. I've
wondered about his proximity during the bombing.

You made up your classic tale of
what it is like to undergo an artillery barrage. ?

Did Len get it wrong? ?Tell us what it's like.

I'd like to know what David "knows." I've been roughly
200 yards from an artillery fall...which was 300 yards
too close to the training group I was in.

Yeh, there's usuall one KIA on every FTX, but usually from a vehicle
accident or pushing a mast ito power lines or something usually
preventable. We had a round impact next to dmain - I think it was
moonsan during Winter Haze. They really shouldn't let those guys play
with those things. They could hurt someone.

Your embellishment of your military service is legend.

Dave K8MN

Your smugness is legendary.

It must be his training at the Fruenze Military Academy. :-)

Did they win the war?

Well, we've had Major Dud in here expostulating up a storm
about his "USMC career."

Curtailed career with no explanation whatsoever... VA hospital,
rehabilitation, and disability pension, but was never injured, save
for some grit that got in his eye once. Hmmmm?

We've had Heil telling all sorts of
things about "being in a country AT war." Those all blend
together, don't they?

So who hasn't? Most of the people I actually know have been
deployed. I don't actually know Jim, but I'm told he has served in
other ways.

Did David actually OPERATE any radios (other than a BC
receiver) in Vietnam? I must have missed one of his brags
about that because I don't recall him giving any information
on that. I really can't believe half of what he says in here.

All I can recall about his retelling of his Vietnam period was being
PO'd at not being permitted to be a ham over there.

When I was assigned to ADA, we actually OPERATED HF
radios...and VHF radios...and UHF radios...and some
microwave radios. Before the 1965 date that the DoD
says the USA "got involved" in the Vietnam War. Not
only that, I've got photo and text references to that on a
publicly-accessible website. shrug

Around 1965, I was operating my dad's Philips SW set from Athens,
Greece. The birthplace of "democraticia" had a King, but no
television broadcasts, and we got our news and entertainment from BBC
and VOA. The Dutch station had the best music, but who knew what they
were saying?

But, David is passing a brick about my being a "newcomer
to radio" (after 54 years of that) and I guess we are supposed
to let him do that. [the pain must be excrutiating for him]

73, Len AF6AY

Yikes! That's one rough gall stone!

Anyway, I've passed the 20 year mark in amateur radio, and in ham
years I'm still wet behind the ears... according to the coded
elitists.