To: Dog
EWS was my specialty from 1966-1970 with the USAF. We were not allowed to turn on our equipment within the USA. We could black out cities.
Now 37 years later I cannot imagine what they could do.
20 posted on
10/05/2007 10:35:33 AM PDT by
rocksblues
(Just enforce the law!)
To: rocksblues
Thank you.....most people could not sleep knowing what really goes on and what the us is doing and holding back on.
46 posted on
10/05/2007 11:02:32 AM PDT by
RSmithOpt
(Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
To: rocksblues
My job in the Marine Corps was the same. We called it Electronics Counter Measures (ECM), 1969-1973. The ALQ-100 was our big gun at the time and my specialty along with the passive systems of the APR-25 and the APR-27. The back of our shop was heavily lined with copper mesh shielding and the door was equivalent to your local bank’s safe door! One late night (Cherry Point, NC) the door was left a jar while an operational test was conducted on one of the ALQ-100’s. Caused radio, TV and all kinds of disruption for miles around for a few min.
52 posted on
10/05/2007 11:17:48 AM PDT by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: rocksblues
EWS was my specialty from 1966-1970 with the USAF. We were not allowed to turn on our equipment within the USA. We could black out cities.So then you weren't around for the 1965 or 1977 New York City blackouts? How convenient.
63 posted on
10/05/2007 11:29:27 AM PDT by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
To: rocksblues
Were you and EWO or a Raven?
67 posted on
10/05/2007 11:33:45 AM PDT by
truemiester
(If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years)
To: rocksblues
“We were not allowed to turn on our equipment within the USA.”
We didn’t have that restriction in West Germany, 1975-78.
82 posted on
10/05/2007 12:44:57 PM PDT by
toddlintown
(Five bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
To: rocksblues
I’m happy to hear that, serious.
I’m grateful we have that capability.
To: rocksblues
EWS was my specialty from 1966-1970 with the USAF. We were not allowed to turn on our equipment within the USA. We could black out cities.I seem to recall something like that happened a number of years ago when an EA6-B was operating off the eastern seaboard. Caused massive power and communications disruptions for hundreds of miles.
197 posted on
10/05/2007 11:03:10 PM PDT by
MarkL
(Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
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