[ARC5] Hmmm...OT....AN/GRC-109 vs RS-6

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I won't go on record as saying that the CIA didn't buy or use the RS-6.  
But I have proof in the form of a copy of an 8th AF document on cold weather 
survival that USAF did (courtesy of COL B Smith).  Each B-47, RB-47, B-52 and 
RB-52 carried one of them.  KC-97's and KC-135's did not.  The document is 
dated 15 September 1959.

I also have the manuals on the RS-6 and the RS-6A.

Robert Downs - Houston
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In a message dated 11/23/2015 14:22:50 PM Central Standard Time, 
kgordon2006 at frontier.com writes: 
> Well, it looks as though I made yet another "ass-u-me" error. From my 
> reading various articles from various places, I thought it was clear (at 
> least to 
> me) that the AN/GRC-109 was simply a military-nomenclatured version of 
> the CIA's RS-6.
> 
> But it isn't: it is a militarized version of the RS-1.