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To: vortigern
Something about Signal Corps/radio ops.

I was Radio Teletype operator . . a very skate MOS

116 posted on 10/14/2022 12:57:44 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: knarf
Something about Signal Corps/radio ops. I was Radio Teletype operator 1966-1969 . . a very skate MOS

It varied widely. I was an 05B MOS (interspeed radio operator).
In Vietnam at least in my Air Mobile infantry unit, that MOS gave you a 25lb radio (infamous prick25) to hump in the jungle along with all your regular gear. They supposedly had a 15 second or so life expectancy in a firefight because the VC and NVA knew to take out the radios to keep the artillery, gunships and fighter bombers away.
I lasted 7 months thru TET 68 and a good 20+ Air Assaults before their statistics caught up with me, but was better than 15 seconds.

124 posted on 10/14/2022 6:59:43 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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