[ARC5] [Milsurplus] Dual Inspections

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

Many years ago at a comm school at Keesler AFB,
we marvelled about what could be put together
with the various designator at that time.

I have forgotten the actual delineations then
but we put them together to indicate a submarine,
carrier pigeon, bombing!


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* 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 *
* (Since 30 Nov 53) *
* Oklahoma City, OK *
* USAF, Ret (61-81) *
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> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:19:52 -0600
> From: kk5f at earthlink.net
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] [Milsurplus] Dual Inspections
> 
> Jack wrote:
> 
> >"Army-Navy Nomenclature System can be recognized by the slant bar
> >in the type designations. The asterisk (*) prefix to type designations
> >indicates standardization between either Army or Navy and other United
> >Nations."
> 
> That's it exactly. I believe it was an early (now abandoned) attempt
> to indicate that the equipment nomenclature for a particular item had
> been standardized not only for U.S. force use, but also for some allied
> foreign services as well.
> 
> I think it was intended to standardize among interested parties a
> nomenclature that was to be used by all. That would eliminate having,
> for example, both U.S. and UK nomenclature for an item (as occurred
> on stuff like the SCR-522-A and the T-47A/ART-13).
> 
> In the manuals for many late WWII-era JAN sets, there will be a note
> somewhere stating that the star that appears before a component 
> (example: *RE-1/ARR-1) is part of the equipment nomenclature, and the
> text will go to some pains to include it every place that the component
> is listed.
> 
> The current JAN system standard can be found many places:
> 
> http://ed-thelen.org/MIL-STD-196E.pdf
> 
> It contains no reference to this early star designator. But on page
> 44 it does explain current use of the JAN system among allied countries
> like the UK and Canada. (You'll see why a Canadian variant of the
> AN/PRC-10 was known as the AN/PRC-510.)
> 
> Mike / KK5F
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