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To: Roklok

Seems like the only branch that has maintained standards is the Marine Corp.

There is a good one, and I’ll bet you know the answer.

The Marines only break things! They have no requirement to fix what they were ordered to break.

On a more serious note, the Air Force aircraft electronics fixers are basically doing the same. Remove and replace rather than fix what is broken. You replace a box rather than fix the box. It is faster, and the box gets fixed at a depot, but you are not using your electronics training very much and it becomes a lost art.

Pretty hard anyway to fix micro electronics with a sledge hammer and a soldering gun.


24 posted on 10/04/2010 5:41:49 AM PDT by wita
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To: wita

Sledge hammers broke boards. We used rubber mallets on the KY-3.

Some form of Doppler radar is probably used to get wind speeds and directions downrange.


34 posted on 10/04/2010 6:15:16 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: wita

I remember they were already doing pluck-and-chuck in satellite trucks in the 80s. Of course that’s line-level. After that the equipment goes up the maintenance chain until someone fixes it or decides it’s dead.


39 posted on 10/04/2010 7:21:12 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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