[Hallicrafters] Re: Nobody wants to be a "technician" anymore

[Howard Weeks]

Shows what I know! ;}

What I do know is that you did not go to school at Fort Monmouth or 
Ft Gordon.  In fact, didn't know that the Army even had a Nuclear 
Training program or a use for them.  

There are a few senior NCOs left that do have the communications 
knowledge but not many.  

Maybe Ft Sill still has something that is serious but I was referring 
to the Signal Corps.

Howard in GA

On 1 Apr 2008 at 21:11, rbethman wrote:

> That seems a "bit" odd.
> 
> As I am a graduate of the U.S. Army nuclear Power Program - Mid '70s.  
> Classical Physics, Nuclear Physics, Health Physics, Mechanical Eng, and 
> Elec Eng.
> 
> NCOs ran and maintained the plants, officers ONLY signed off on what we did.
> 
> Look up SM-1, MH-1A. PM-2, and McMurdo Station's PM-3a
> 
> I did NOT see the GO/NO GO mentality hit until about 1980.
> 
> We were the "contractors" that packed up and went to the far flung 
> reaches of the Earth.
> 
> Retired 1988, Sr. NcO
> 
> Howard Weeks wrote:
> > Prior to the middle 60s or so, the Army used to teach the theory 
> > supporting the repair of many communication items.  Before then, it 
> > was a good place to go to learn the basics.  
> >
> > Starting in the late 60s, the bean counters and efficiency experts 
> > (?) got involved and they began to gut the courses.  Essentially, 
> > they do not teach the theory behind anything these days.  Basically, 
> > they teach the repairman to read the manual and follow the trouble 
> > shooting charts.  Without the manual, they are completely useless.  
> >
Howard Weeks
Harlem, GA 
K5JCP