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When Reagan was president he would land at March AFB and fly the Marine1 helo up to his ranch. Reagan's call sign the Seceret Service gave him was "Rawhide" on the radio. Reagan was hard of hearing and he would turn off the encryption on the radios many times because it was hard to hear the audio in encrypted mode. It drove the SS guys nuts but many people with scanners were able to hear the president if lucky and in the right place.

I am proud to have served under him as my CINC. Ronald Reagan helped pull this country out of a huge hole in 1980. I was in the service then and Mr. Peanut had put us in a pretty good jam overseas. Our Iranian embasssy had been attacked twice and Desert One was a big ugly mark for SPECOPs. My landlord was German and he always asked how Carter got elected and why the military paid us so little. When our pay raise came up Carter told us to lump it, no pay raise. One guy I worked with qualified for welfare. When Reagon was elected we picked our heads up and walked with that American swagger again.