No subject

to talk to the Grunts on the beach.  Some with TSEC/KY-8's.

They began to be surplused out in the late 1980's.  Many were bought back 
during Desert Shield.

Robert Downs - Houston
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n a message dated 07/10/2013 20:55:50 PM Central Daylight Time, 
kk5f at earthlink.net writes: 
> The AN/VRC-12 series first started appearing in service in 1961, and by
> 1965 was *the* most important vehicular tactical radio system of the
> Vietnam War.  They were also used on US Navy riverine craft...the
> PCFs had one AN/VRC-46, and the smaller PBRs had two AN/VRC-46 sets.
> It remained in US service until 2008...a record of 47 years that has
> never been matched by any other military radio set, and likely never
> will.
>