[R-390] radios at trash sites

[Tim Shoppa]

Barry asked:
> Yeah but .... the question was/is -- why was a piece of then-current, serviceable equipment placed in the dump?
> Is it possible  you unknowingly glommed a piece of gear someone else was in 
> the process of purloining?

While this certainly is a possible explanation, it's also possible
that due to beauracratic SNAFU the radio was outside the military
property system.  I hate to say it, but often it's easier to just
junk these outsiders rather than put them into the system!

I know little about how the MARS radios were accounted for,
for example.

There are certainly (bringing it back to Johnny Cash) stories of
"I built it one piece at a time and it didn't cost me a dime"
creations in the military. Sometimes these get almost-found-out
and the quick way to dispose of the evidence is to toss it. I thought
the traditional way to do this was to mail all the
pieces home to your folks' and assemble the Jeep there :-).

Tim.