[Milsurplus] MAB vs BC-611

[David Stinson]

Mike Morrow wrote:


> What did the BC-1000 talk to?  Its 40 to 48 MC span did not overlap the span
> of any of the higher powered sets,......

Perhaps it had to do with an old but continuing problem:
There was/has been a long-standing and, IMHO, short-sighted attitude
in the armed forces that "we don't want some scared corporal calling
in air (tank, etc.) strikes"  The idea was to tightly control
to whom a front-line grunt can speak directly.
His message has to go through several layers so each can
"bless" it and pass it along.  This cost lives as late as Somalia,
and probably since then, though I hear it's gotten better.
I think the "right" answer was better training and discipline
for the radio operator, not layers of (mis)management.

D.S.