[Milsurplus] [armyradios] Waaay OT: Coconut from the Mariannas in WW II

[Mike A]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 10:30:43AM -0400, Peter Gottlieb wrote:
> I won a LASER cloud height measurement instrument from govliquidation a few 
> years back.  It is a field unit which is built into a metal case with twist-pull 
> latches on four sides.  It took me a lot of convincing to the shipping company 
> to just slap a label on it but they finally did and of course it arrived just fine.

Field units are generally tolerant of being shipped "bare", though there
are exceptions. 

I just have to include this, which is one of my favorite exchanges: 

: >If being dropped out of an aircraft into ... a minefield is "moderately
: >rough handling", what would constitute "rough handling"?
: Being shipped UPS.
: -- David Richerby and Dave Brown

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Mike Andrews, W5EGO
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Tired old sysadmin