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

[Peter Gottlieb]

Yeah, just wait for the new procedure for mil-spec testing:  Ship item UPS, it 
if survives, it meets battlefield spec.


On 4/3/2013 11:47 AM, Mike A wrote:
> 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
>