RadioBanter - View Single Post - What is the ARRL's thought on having good amateurs?

Dave Heil · November 1st 06, 05:34 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

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Then why do the military service have technical schools to do somehting
so very simple?
I guess it is because of the raw material they have to work with.
Always a kind word for our armed forced...
Armed forced?

Must you put on your stupid face? Can't you take a typo?

I didn't write it. You did.

Our military isn't perfect. Many of those who enlist aren't all that
sharp. Most are shoved into a career field in which they have no
interest. Most aren't going to make the military a career.

You must be remembering the draft years when, even though the Air Force
didn't use the draft, the draft generated a significant interest in Air
Force service.

....but one had to at least be a high school graduate to enter the Air
Force. That didn't mean that everyone who entered the Air Force was
particularly bright or had prior experience in a field related to an Air
Force career field. Of those who *were* bright and experienced in a
field, there was no guarantee that they'd be placed in an AFSC related
to their experience. A member of my basic training flight had some
medical school. He became a Security Policeman. A fellow with
electronics skills was made a cook.

Some are
lucky enough to have skills obtained prior to military service. Some of
those are fortunate enough to serve in a field in which they have some
expertise or interest.

Some with grave disappointment that they couldn't be hams in particular
combat zones.

I don't know anyone who experienced "grave disappointment" or anyone who
has written anything like that.

Why aren't the communications billets merely a direct duty assignment
after basic training?

They can be. That's how I did it. I never set foot in an Air Force
technical school. Of course I'd already been a radio amateur for seven
years when I joined the military. I was awarded my 3-level right out of
basic training. I went directed duty to Barksdale AFB after ten days of
leave after Amarillo.
Lackland. San Antonio.

Yes, Lackland AFB is in San Antonio. Amarillo AFB was in Amarillo.
That's where I went through basic training. Amarillo. Amarillo.

I see. Wikipedia confirms Amarillo AFB as an inprocessing base.

I knew it without consulting Wikipedia. If I'd meant "Lackland", I'd
have written "Lackland".

Did you catch what Robesin's got?

I have no idea of what you mean, Brian.

Stories about the military.

So you're asking if I caught stories about the military?

Whole government agencies gave up on code. Commercial businesses gave
up on code.
Oracle uses a lot of code.

Is Oracle an Extra? What's his call?

Oracle is a business which didn't give up on code.

Bill Gates has an answer for your Oracle.

Bill Gates never gave up on code either.

Dave K8MN