[Milsurplus] Re:ARC 65 and ARC 21 control heads, a rare exception

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Scott,

Last I heard, and this was a decade ago, the 13th (Jungle) Air Force had 
pulled out of Anderson, after more than half a century.  I have a 50th Anniversary 
T-shirt from 1993 (start date is Guadalcanal).  When I went back to NAVMAG in 
'94 I think I heard that one squadron was on rotation.  But that Anderson was 
scheduled to be turned over to GOV GUAM.  Your trash can is probably a 
Chamarro shrine now.

Another totally radio unrelated Anderson tidbit that you never heard from Dan 
W. A. Rather.  When my MOMAG unit was working up our off-year schedule to go 
to Guam in the spring of '91, we were expecting to spend part of our time 
helping the Air Force off-load MK-82 500 pound GP bomb bodies (which were being 
retired from the inventory) for shipment to Hawthorne, NV for long-term storage. 
 By the time we got there, they had mostly been off-loaded in the opposite 
direction, on the Republican Guard.  Aside from the short term fuel costs to fly 
them to Iraq, it saved the taxpayers a bundle in long term storage costs.  
And no costs for the unloading.  Who says that DOD isn't cost conscious?  No 
environmental impact statement required, either.  :-)

I did find an R-390A in a surplus store in Agana once, but it was in such bad 
condition it wasn't worth the freight back to the mainland.  No AN/ARC-21's 
though.

In a message dated 11/19/2004 11:01:58 PM Central Standard Time, 
scottjohnson1 at cox.net writes: 
> I think RCA did the SSB upgrades to both the ARC-38A and the 
> ARC-65, BTW, I remember building a flip top trashcan out of an old ARC-65 
> case when I was on an extended TDY to Andersen AFB in GUAM.  I wonder if 
> it's still there?

Robert Downs - Houston
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