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

[J. Forster]

Many moons ago, I went to China on a business trip to demo a prototype
product. I had a bunch of very pretty, dark blue, USAF surplus shipping
cases and one brand new Halliburton aluminum camera case.

On my eventual return home, the Halliburton case was very beaten up, but
the USAF cases were unmolested.

-John

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> 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
>
> --
> Mike Andrews, W5EGO
> mikea at mikea.ath.cx
> Tired old sysadmin
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