[Milsurplus] HOTSY-TOTSY

[D C Macdonald]

Interesting.  I don't remember any clocks in
our alert "caves" at Carswell AFB, TX.

Mac, K2GKK
7BW/9BS(H) 1963-1966


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From: "b. smith" <smithab11 at comcast.net>
To: "milsurplus" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
CC: Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] HOTSY-TOTSY
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 11:42:23 -0500

Speaking of    "What I would do is determine the 2 mr/hr boundary.  Don't 
regularly sleep inside that radius"

The Air Force had a problem in the late fifties and very early sixties. We 
would spend a lot of time on Alert and the Flight Surgeon discovered that 
some of the crew members were developing numerous  skin blemishes  that 
appeared to be in the shape of small numbers arranged in a circle around the 
crew members face. However the numbers were a mirror image and  backwards. 
These numbers had a slight glow to them in the darkness  and were first 
noticed by the crew members at night particularly when we all attended the 
local base movie and  sat in our reserved rows, the theater audience  could 
look back and see the alert crews because of the slight glow on each members 
face.  CAUSE :  This skin problem was finally tracked to the  very large 
Government Issue, Manual, Windup, 3 day, Alarm Clocks that were issued with 
the luminous dials. These were placed on each crew members night stand 
courtesy of the U.S. Government. The clocks were removed and replaced with 
non "glowing" clocks and the blemishes  soon disappeared.

73 Breck k4che