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To: rstark56

>>Yep turn it over to the military so an 19 year with less experience and minor education can make sure it works right.<<

I was a 19 year old Marine working on aircraft electrical systems - jets and choppers. Only high school grads got into aviation schools; electrician school was six months long. Flunk the weekly test and you’d be digging foxholes on an island.

In the field, we always worked in teams of two, sometimes three, and checked each others work before signoff. And today’s troops are more educated, better trained and more adept than yesterday’s counterpart.


15 posted on 11/29/2010 2:09:02 PM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: NTHockey

Whoppy I spent 23 years in the military how about you


16 posted on 11/29/2010 2:40:38 PM PST by rstark56
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To: NTHockey

Our soldiers in the field do an admirable job, there is no doubt about that but so much of the equipment now is so complicated (both in operation and repair) that it is a neccesity to have skilled civilians supporting (and sometimes operating) those systems.


17 posted on 11/29/2010 6:29:27 PM PST by XRdsRev (New Jersey - Crossroads of the American Revolution)
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