[QCWA] Wow

[Mike Sturm]

Hi All:
 
I'm not a graduate but a current DOD civilian employee.  Monmouth is alive and well - at least for the next few years.  The official closing date is 15 Dec 2011.   It's a shame, I haven't been here long, but this is a really nice place to work, a great bunch of people and a beautiful location. 
 
For those of you nearby, there is a fairly nice museum on post.  My team is doing a web site for them and I recently got the grand tour of the museum and the artifacts stored in the warehouse.  It was nice to see TTY gear my father used in WWII.   They also have one of those early radar sets of the same vintage as the one that picked up the Japanese aircraft nearing Pearl.  I was most fascinated by the extensive collection of vacuum tubes - made me miss my old Hammarlund HQ-145AC - may it rust in peace :)  The curator's father was a ham.
 
The official web site is http://www.monmouth.army.mil  
 
For any other DOD employees out there that have been BRAC'ed or RIF'ed or contracted-out (for me it's been 2 BRACS and 3 RIFS) please enjoy my VERY unofficial Ft. Monmouth site:
 
http://www.mikesturm.com/bracweb
 
Best 73
--
KA2E
http://www.mikesturm.com
	
		

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: w2icw at juno.com
> Joe and all you others
> I was in Monmouth a long time ahead of you fellows. One of the hams I
> knew then said he didn't copy code and landed in repair. To continue my
> saga. I got sent back to Camp Crowder to what they called the unit
> training center. Only one guy in the company was a qualified fixed
> station op. Back to school for all of us. Crowder had what was then
> another large signal school. If I had become a fixed station op the TO
> called for some high ratings. I might have become a Master Sgt. I managed
> to get out of school as a radio op high speed. That meant mobile
> operation. Had some friends on the practice circuit between Canp Koler in
> Cal , Camp Crowder and Monnmouth. Did that for a while then the batallion
> broken up as they could not get operators. No one could touch type.. Got
> sucked int two weeks in a NONCOM school run by a couple of West Point
> Grads. Then one day I was sent to this Motor Messenger Company and off I
> went Europe, no more radio for me. It was bad, I was classified combat
> and never saw any action. Lot more funny stories to tell someother time
> 
> Hank, W2ICW
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