[Milsurplus] Re: Green Tagged GF/RU

[William Donzelli]

> I'm sure the justification was "frequency management between
> the services," and that would require keeping sets together
> with their speced coils, but I think that' was the "on top" reason.
> While I can't prove it, I suspect the utterly unjustified and unfair
> attitude that Guard and Reserve units somehow aren't "real military"
> (which still persists today and is still unjustified)
> had something to do with ordering sets designed to keep "them"
> on "their" frequencies.  Last I looked, Guard and Reserve men
> and women bleed red blood, just like "regular army."

Perhaps, but the "on top" reason of frequency management is quite
valid for the era as well. The Signal Corps took the concept to
relatively stupid levels in the 1930s, issuing a bunch of sets that
could not talk to each other.

--
Will