[ARC5] 70+ year old errors

[Roy Morgan]

> On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, J. Forster wrote: 
> …  a certain computer company that would load as
> much product as they could onto trucks and for one day drive them
> around the city.  Then bring them back and unload the trucks and
> resume normal activity.  The reason was that the state had an inventory
> tax, based on the inventory you had in-house on that one certain day
> a year.

Ah yes, inspections!

In 1967 I was a midshipman on a carrier (USS Randolph).  I was learning about the engine room, workbook in hand, when I was "invited" to help out in getting ready for an inspection.  We were headed for Guantanamo Cuba for a yearly (?) operational evaluation.  There was an oil heating tank about the size of a refrigerator and it had an inspection/access hatch about the size of a turkey platter and held on by a dozen nuts.  I climbed into the tank and the machinist mates handed in a big load of zinc plates that were to be used as sacrificial electrolysis elements.  But they had too many of them, and no better place to "store" them.  *After* I climbed back out, they bolted the hatch back on and applied a coat of new paint to it.  The crew's attitude toward me was quite good after that, as I remember.

I wonder if the aircraft aboard at the time had ARC-5's or similar.  (mostly S-2 fixed wing and SH-3A helicopters, and possibly a few A-4 jets)  I'm quite sure that the helos had ARN-6's for radio beacon direction finding/navigation.

Roy
USN, Ret.

Roy Morgan
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