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November 4th 06, 06:29 PM
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What is the ARRL's thought on having good amateurs?
Dave Heil wrote: wrote: wrote: wrote: wrote: From: on Tues, Oct 31 2006 6:07 pm Dave Heil wrote: wrote: Dave Heil wrote: wrote: Dee Flint wrote: wrote in message wrote: What we got there in Heil's (altered?) version of his personal biographic factoids is strangely similar to the undetailed, grandiose CLAIMS of the former "war hero of the USMC," Major Dud (Robeson). :-) Other than being in country, Heil has made no claims of direct action or heroism. As far as I'm concerned, he was just another REMF who, years later, is playing everyone as if he were the big hero in "a country at war!" [those REMFs are spotted miles away...] He may have been a REMF, but I don't know. No, you don't know I'm pretty sure that's what I said. If you want to debate it, you'll have to look in the archives and repost it. and Len is busy with more falsehoods like "big hero in 'a country at war'". Now, Dave, I've talked to about your punctuation til I'm blue in the face... What is really peculiar is Len's spouting off about rear echelon anything. After all, that exactly where *he* spent his time in the military. At least he made it out of country. No problem on proof for me. I've got my records and some of them are digitized (PDF for universality in viewing) from their original form. The official archives in St. Louis (NARA Military Personnel Records Center) has them for proof by anyone with access. I'm good with what Heil has presented. I'm not. He was "in" the USAF but that's all I will accept. That military time should have been good for his guvmint pension accumulation time, though...probably his whole plan for his future? Said he lives in a tar paper shack in WV. That doesn't sound like bragging, and it's something I can believe. Len's statement makes him look quite foolish. Quiteallright. Better than a decade passed between the end of my time in the Air Force and the beginning of my employment with the Department of State. That's a long time to be unemployed. FWIW, I think the state dept was merely a vehicle for dxpeditions, not a significant grab for a fat pension. It resulted in good pay, world travel, a chance to put some rare spots on the map and a modest pension. Len Anderson was no more involved in my employment than he is in amateur radio. He IS involved in the ARS. He seems content to give the FCC the comments that they've asked for re the ARS. Oh, my, here comes Major Dud Robeson the II. :-) Naw. He's playing tag with Mark. Whatever. :-) I think all of Marks out-assholing Robesin has finally paid off. I think it has paid off in spades for the Colonel/geophysicist. He is now recognized as a twit in entirely new circles. Some people's claim to fame leaves me scratching my head. One's claim to fame is that he out-assholed Robesin, another's is working out of band Frenchmen on 6M. Go figure. Since 54 years ago I've been acquainted with (perhaps) hundreds of military personnel both as one myself and (much longer) as a civilian. I don't know of ANY military personnel who "DIDN'T" receive any specialty training after their Basic Training (or Boot Camp for USN and USMC and USCG). There were a handful of billets that were DDA. Most of the unskilled work was handled by folks getting kicked out for various non-adaptability issues. No doubt. Thing is, Heil could usually claim anydamnthing he wanted knowing that few in public venues of now would have been in the Air Force in Vietnam. Just like there are few amateurs who were in the State Department. Given that kind of an "audience," he can get away with all kinds of brags...and saying lots of generalities without going into specifics. My favorite is his brag about working out of band Frenchmen on 6M. At no time did I brag about working out-of-band French stations on any band. I am not responsible for checking the band allocation of any station I work. That matter rests with the responsible licensing authority in that station's country. Live with it. If you hadn't told us about it, how would we know you did it? What an idiot. I agree with your self-description. Are you now trying to say that you didn't work out of band Frenchmen on 6M? One thing good is that the old "oil burner routes" aren't there in civilian aviation notices...the old SAC practice runs on "targets" similar to USSR target locations. Be thankful that MAD worked! Almost nobody alive today knows about that. Many people alive today know about it, Brian. Most can't even remember 9/11/2001. But...in Heil's case WE don't really know in DETAIL what Heil actually did. He hasn't described it in anything but vague generalities and intimations of work performed. I don't even know if it was fixed or tactical, but that's alright. He implies it was something like "under fire" but that isn't the info I get from folks who worked HF comms there and not much is written up in the Army Center for Military History except NON-morse comms. Len likes to write things like "he implies". I implied no such thing at any time. The fact is that Len doesn't know what I did and he is fishing. Fishing is fun, and it's a little like gambling. You never know when you're going to get lucky. A lot of time you get lucky when you're not even fishing. Like Robesin's "eating his excrement" remark... The information isn't hard to come by on the web. What information? If Len can't find it, he'll have to stay in the dark. Dave K8MN I hope that you've got a layer of foam board underneath that tarpaper. It's been cold lately. |
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