[Milsurplus] 1980's Navy R-390A's

[Jim Conrad]

That's only partially true. The DEMIL class for a "weapons" system as 
they are called is set by the Item Manager which might or might not 
be the organizations of origin. Example is SPCC (Ships Parts Control 
Center, using the Navy for an Example). What people don't understand 
is that the "weapons" system is a large collection of items that make 
up the weapon system. A good example is a communications system that 
was used in Exercise Firing Range Scoring. It has a DEMIL code that 
requires mutilation prior to release. The system is full of all kinds 
of Motorola Two-Way Radio repeaters (in the example I am using they 
were MSF-5000's and not encrypted). The Motorola MSF-5000 were 
completely exportable and had nothing to do with ITAR but because 
they were part of that "weapons" system the code assigned to the 
individual radio's required them to be mutilated.

It is far easier to mutilate everything then have someone go piece by 
piece and find out if the individual piece was on the ITAR/Munitions 
list and then individually assign a demil code. The actual DEMIL 
classifications are promulgated by DLA (Defense Logistics Agency) 
(such as B or Q etc)

It was not unusual to see racks full of commercial off-the-self 
(COTS) HP or Tektronix (high end) test equipment sitting outside at 
St J's in the rain waiting for the 20 ton anchor to be dropped on it.

See this link for a picture I snapped one day while inspecting some 
property when I saw this nice TE rack sitting outside at ST J's;

http://www.oceanviewcom.com//misc/St_Js_TE_Outside.JPG

..Jim


At 09:12 PM 3/12/2011, you wrote:
>The disposal instructions and prohibitions on excess equipment are set
>by the organizations of origin.  DRMO only carries them out.
>
>Dennis D. W7QHO
>Glendale, CA
>
>************
>On Mar 12, 2011, at 1:32 PM, J. Forster wrote (in part):
>
> >> hat was one of the last large quantity surplus sales of vintage
> >> communications equipment. Shortly after that time DRMO changed policy
> >> on DEMIL and started to drop a twenty ton anchor on most of the
> >> interesting communications equipment.

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