On Mar 28, 7:18�pm, 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.

We HAVE served, robust oberst. We ARE a bit better than
those that NEVER served.

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

"Ridiculed?!?" NO. Failed to heap gratuitous praise on some
emotional outburst by an UNIDENTIFIED person? YES.

*You bleated something about Korea.

I didn't "BLEAT," robust oberst. I simply stated that the
Korean War has NOT YET been settled. It is in an
almost perpetual state of truce since July, 1953.

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

I was assigned to the 8235th Army Unit, a signal
battalion attached to Army Central Command in the
Far East from late January 1953 to January 1956. The
Korean active War was from June 1950 to July 1953.

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

"Classic?!?" Hardly. The writing wasn't good enough for
the "classic" classification. :-)

*Your embellishment of your military service is legend.

"Embellishment?!?" :-) Are you going to write the
Department of the Army and demand they retract my
Good Conduct Ribbon award? :-)

What I did during my active US Army assignment is
described in the photo essay available at:

http://sujan.hallikainen.org/Broadca...s/My3Years.pdf

The details described therein have been reviewed and
found accurate by three former members of that battalion
and a retired civilian engineer then working for the US
Army. Also available is:

http://sujan.hallikainen.org/Broadca...phabetSoup.pdf

...which is a digitized booklet produced by the signal
battalion showing what the station and facilities were
like in 1962-1963.

What WE do NOT have is the illustrious battle experience
of mighty warrior David Heil *IN* a country at war. Strangely
enough he is most reticent about saying anything on that.
Chances are, those saying nothing detailed were just the
usual REMF trying to pad out their 'histories.'

Len AF6AY

ex-RA16408336, SSgt SigC, US Army (1952-1960)

NB: The "RA" in the old Army Service Number indicates
a voluntary enlistment. A "US" prefix denotes a draftee.