[Milsurplus] Re: Milsurplus Digest, Vol 56, Issue 23

[Spike Dennis]

Well, now, TRC-10s and Pogo Sticks to Angola. Say
whut?
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You can't tell me Hue Miller that's you've never heard this story!!!
Or the large order of BC-611 batteries from on undisclosed country in the early 90's from Brentronics. Or the fact that as stupid as it may seem the BC-611 is still classed as ordnance by the US Government & silly though it may seem is still illegal to export. Just ask Mike Murphy.

 BC-1306 and BC-611
to Thailand, okay; to Vietnam, of course you mean with
the French colonial forces.
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Though the French had their own supply lines connected directly to the US, no I do not mean them.
The CIA was passing out 1306's & 611's before & after 1960. The French pulled out in 1958. I have pictures of non-French types inspecting their new rigs in 1961 Thailand. In actuality, the communication equipment of all generations & types from the BC-611 to the gigantic radio relay equipment that was sent to Vietnam during the French period was intended for use by the Vietnamese government & the French role was to install, & train the Vietnamese to use it. However, when the French pulled out completely in 1958 they took everything they could with them. This is all very well documented in Test for Technology by John Began. Among the first Post WW-II, & French period Americans killed in Vietnam were US Signalman sent there to try & salvage what the French did not abscond with.

I don't think the big dump of GRC-9s took place until
the collapse of the USSR bloc, did it?
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Maybe true, but just goes ta show ya.

KB0SFP