[GreenKeys] AN/MRC-2 US Army's first deployable RTTY??

[Howard Weeks]

In the mid to late 60's, the U.S. Army Signal School gutted their 
various repair courses, quit training or teaching theory, and went to 
a "task" oriented approach to training repairmen.  In other words, 
they taught you how to change a fuse or a board but not why.  Since 
that time, they have turned over all or most of the pure repair MOS's 
to the Ordinance Corps.  About all they teach at Gordon these days is 
how to operate along with operator oriented maintenance.  

The Army Signal Corps was a good place to learn the communications 
repair field at one time but not any more!

Howard in Augusta, GA

On 15 Jan 2010 at 22:13, Duncan M. Brown wrote:

> "Short Number" & "Long Number" sounds like a good description!
> 
> Although I was trained as a TTY repairman by the Army, I knew as much
> (if not more) radio from my ham radio background as the Army trained
> radio repair guys.  I had to tell them how to fix the T-368 in our
> AN/GRC-26D a couple of times.
> 
> Duncan
> 
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Howard Weeks
Harlem, GA 
K5JCP