now I'm going to just keep reading and wiping, read and wipe, read and wipe until I get it all done.
Posted on 02/12/2006 3:14:38 PM PST by xzins
Radio call signs identify the parties to a conversation on military radios. Some of the names are related to unit mascots, like BullDog or Iron Horse. Numbers with those names identify the parties talking. For example, "4" would be the supply/logistics section. "2" would be the intel section. "6" is always the commander.
As Bill Peterson explains, the following is a tract produced by his uncle, Oliver Peterson, who was a chaplain in Vietnam.
This page is dedicated to the men and women who have served in the various branches of our nation's Armed Forces in times of war and crisis. Countless individuals, some known only to Almighty God, have either given their lives for their fellow man or have experienced the worst in mankind which has left them forever scarred.About a year ago I read an old tract which deeply touched my heart, "White Robe 6 !". While this tract is speaking of an event specific to the Viet Nam conflict, I feel that it is a wonderful tribute to all who have ever served in the military, and a powerful testimony of praise to our precious Lord and Saviour.
As you read the account of a young man, a soldier in a war that nobody wanted, you may feel the very real presence of White Robe 6 as you follow the words of one who knows Him...Thank you Bill Peterson.
"White Robe 6!
White Robe 6!
This is Yellow One
calling White Robe 6.
Come in please!"
A stranger or a newcomer to South Viet Nam hearing this radio call might be greatly puzzled that no answer is ever returned--at least, not an audible answer.
It is common practice to assign radio code names to military units and aircraft to enable the caller to identify each other while hiding their identity from the enemy. One would search in vain through all known code books for the identity of White Robe 6. But the men of the First Air Cavalry understand that White Robe 6 is a special designation for God.
No one knows where the code name originated, or when. But it has become familiar through frequent use, in letters home, in personal conversation, and in radio communications. It is not used casually or irreverently, but in tones of deepest respect, of personal acquaintance, of devout worship. The name has special meaning to the helicopter crew who flew their chopper to 10,000 feet, far above normal operating altitude, to feel nearer to White Robe 6. And to the wounded Cavalryman whose clenched teeth muffle cries of pain while his lips move in confident prayer. And to the grateful men who rest in safety after a courageous flight to rescue buddies downed behind enemy positions where success depended as much on the help of White Robe 6 as on their skill and nerve.
This is the same God they have known through boyhood days; of whom they learned in home and church; to whom they prayed in less trying days than these. This is the God, whose word of promise giving assurance to those who trust in Him, they have believed: "When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble" (Psalm 91:15).
White Robe 6 does answer when men call upon Him. Not as a voice audible on radio circuits, but in the innermost recesses of the soul. "For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit" (Isaiah 57:15). He speaks through His eternal Word, the Bible, giving a message of salvation, of hope, of comfort and encouragement. To men engaged in the grim business of war, facing daily the basic issues of life and death, comes His word of assurance, "As your days, so shall your strength be" (Deuteronomy 33:25). And, to men who are weary of bloodshed and conflict, physically tired, mentally, emotionally and spiritually drained by the awful tension and fear, the almost unbearable horror and destruction, the unresolved struggle between moral principle and painful duty, comes the ageless word of the Living Saviour, "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Mathew 11:28).
The voice of White Robe 6 is heard, too, in the message of the man of God, your chaplain, who ministers the Word of the Living God to men in every situation and trying circumstance. By word and deed and by his very presence with them he speaks for White Robe 6, assuring men who call upon their God in the hour of trial and need that their cry is heard as they call in faith and trust: "Thou dost keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusts in thee" (Isaiah 26:3).
You cannot hear it unless you are tuned to the proper wavelength, but the voice of White Robe 6 is unmistakably heard in answer to the call of the trusting heart: "Yellow One, this is White Robe 6. I read you loud and clear. How do you read me? 'Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary, his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.'" (Isaiah 40:28-31).
This tract was inspired by letters home from Bill Peterson, Crew Chief with C Co., 227th Aviation Battalion, 1st Air Cavalry Division, whose home is Carney, Michigan [now resides in Piney Flats, TN].
Text by O. E. Peterson.
American Tract Society
Oradell, New Jersey 07649
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now I'm going to just keep reading and wiping, read and wipe, read and wipe until I get it all done.
Blessings on you this day, Sandrat.
Good link, C4. Thanks.
Thanks. Sent it to my son who works with Navy in Norfolk.
I was Headhunter 6. I was not a chaplain.
Good. :>)
"6" is for the commander.
The "Commander of the Armies of the Lord" is WhiteRobe6.
He is the pre-incarnate appearing of the 2nd person of the Trinity.
Thanks.
I was RiverMud 26 Bravo in Vietnam and on my second tour the moniker was Budweiser.
My favorite that I ever had was "TigerSpirit"
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Thank you xzins.Very good and this is the first time I heard that.
Sandrat gets some of the credit for this thread.
We were discussing WhiteRobe6 on another thread.
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