In article m, "Dee D. Flint"
writes:

Actually the fact that other services don't use it very much is a strong
argument to require hams to learn it.

Idiocy.

This is the place to preserve the
skill in case of need and to prevent this capability from becoming a lost
art.

OK, so you want to keep the US ARS a living museum of morse.

Few do.

Are you an anthropologist?

Plus of course the fact that quite a few hams do use it.

OK, that means you want a welfare program to keep things the way
YOU want it.

Shrug.

LHA