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

[rbethman]

No, Ft Mushmouth or Gordon were NOT involved.

Try closer to THE flagpole - Ft Belvoir, VA.  Training was held in the 
secured "Mobility Engineering Research Development Command" area.

The four main MOSCs were 52H, 52J, 53K, & 52L - Mechanical maint 
tech/Oper. Electrical Maint Tech/Oper, Instrumentation Maint Tech/Oper, 
Health Pysics Tech. (Radiation monitoring and mitigation.)

Thevinin's Theory was taught and practiced, Heat balances - You name it!

52 week course with about a 30% washout rate.

The school was run by the Army, BUT was an Army/Navy/USAF school.  All 
land based power plants.  Located in the US, Antarctica, Greenland, 
Alaska, and Panama Canal Zone.

Bob - N0DGN

Howard Weeks wrote:
> 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
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