"Diverd4777" wrote in message
...
I heard that in Afghanistan, all the troops ( on both sides taliban &
northern
front ) used motorola radios on the
same frequency;
- so maybe thats what they're talking about . .


Only if you could believe Saddam would equip his cannon fodder with insecure
radios so he could buy even more gold bathroom fixtures.

Frank Dresser

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 20:04:18 -0500, Diverd4777 wrote
(in message ):

Possibly some lazy reporter ( no byline on the article)
from " WorldNetDaily" executing a " synthesis of News" ;

making some stuff up to meet a deadline..!

( - who's gonna check his facts ?? )


tp://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34575


For those who are prior-Army (the only branch I've spent decades in grin),
there's a pretty sure sign that the article was a put-on.

What was this Marine's name?

Oh, yeah, "Corcoran", right?

A standard, traditional military boot has a "smooth" toe of leather that goes
up to the bootlaces.

[This is excluding any real mention of leather/canvas boots.]

The Airborne troops normally are known for a different boot, which has a
leather band about an inch and a-half (I'm guessing at that distance) from
the end of the toe-area and this front part of that boot as well as the back
part have - for decades - been "spitshined".

Although it's pronounced "CORK-rins" or"COCK-rins", the actual name of the
boot (and the company which manufacturers it) is "Corcoran".

Putting
+Corcoran +boots

on google comes up with over 17,000 hits.


It looks to me that "WorldNutDaily" got "taken to the cleaners".



Gray Shockley
-----------------------
Who was a First Sergeant
with the 5th Infantry Div
(Mech), Charlie Company,
105th Military Intelligence
Battalion (CEWI)

CEWI=Combat Electronic Warfare and Intercept
Which means electronics and language people
(who run the jammers and direction finders)
and aren't Mil Intel Super Spooks - these are
people who wear uniforms every day.

g

A stalwart defender of liberalism. Always willing to find fault in any so
called conservative news sources, but willing to turn a blind eye when it
comes to the insufficiency of the mainstream media to report with any
degree of veracity. CF the postings on black crimes against whites and the
virtual absence of these reports in the mainstream media.

Dr. Artaud


Gray Shockley wrote in
:

And that "WorldNet Daily" ("WorldNut Daily") article was just a mite
bit short on any real references or on any information to verify the
article.




Gray Shockley
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"Diverd4777" wrote in message
...
I heard that in Afghanistan, all the troops ( on both sides taliban &
northern
front ) used motorola radios on the
same frequency;
- so maybe thats what they're talking about . .



The Motorolas are more popular than I thought:

"Soldiers have no confidence in the ICOM radios. The range was
unsatisfactory. Everyone had a Motorola-type hand-held radio that had vastly
better range and power performance. Soldiers purchased handsets and longer
antennas for their ICOM radios."

This is from:

http://www.sftt.org/article06102003a.html

Frank Dresser

Gray Shockley wrote:

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 14:55:04 -0500, Soliloquy wrote
(in message ):
(snip)
and a short-wave radio

When I first got to VietNam in 1968, I bought (at the 4th ID (M) PX) a Zenith
TransOceanic". I wasn't pretentious enough to say I got "intel" on it but did
listen to Hanoi Hannah and her male sidekick.

When I lived in San Francisco one day I noticed a homeless man selling,
among various knickknacks, a 1960s Zenith TO. I asked him about it and
he said he bought it in America and took it to Nam, where it literally
saw him through hell and high water. He said he hated to sell it but
needed to eat. He was asking $20, and I didn't have the cash on me. When
I went back the next day with a $20 bill, he was nowhere to be found. I
always wondered if that TO ended up with somebody who would have cared
for it as much as I would.

Sending someone a scanner or shortwave radio might make you feel warm and
fuzzy inside, but unless the solider in question spoke the enemy's language,
I think it would only be useful to hear what the BBC says s. I doubt Bin
Laden or Saddam are rallying the troops in English any more than the hit-men
attacking our troops daily. Since a scanner can only receive, it would not
help the soldier tell anyone anything useful about anything, including the
enemy.

If this ill-begotten adventure were thought out sufficiently, we would have
foreseen the mess we have now and would have equipped our men with
reinforcements and proper equipment resupply. The ultimate shock and awe is
a thermonuclear detonation. I guarantee, when someone detonates a nuke, it
shocks and creates awe. It also removes guerillas. It also silences
interference, and cleans the reportorial slate - liberal or conservative: it
silences all arguments. It also incinerates biochemical agents.

HINT HINT

(Diverd4777) wrote in message ...

Possibly some lazy reporter ( no byline on the article)
from " WorldNetDaily" executing a " synthesis of News" ;

making some stuff up to meet a deadline..!

( - who's gonna check his facts ?? )


I knew I had read that story before. From the article:


The Pentagon's draft report of the conflict details how soldiers spent
their own money to get better field radios, extra ammunition carriers
and commercial backpacks to replace undersized rucksacks, according to
Scripps Howard News Service.

"There were a lot of reports of that prior to the war, people would go
out and buy their own gear," Patrick Garrett, a defense analyst with
GlobalSecurity.org, told the news service.
.....


Here's the source. The original article was written for the Scripps
Howard News Service by Tara Copp and Jessica Wehrman. Isn't the
Internet wonderful?

http://globalsecurity.org/org/news/2...11-boots01.htm

"Warpcore" wrote in message link.net...

Sending someone a scanner or shortwave radio might make you feel warm and
fuzzy inside, but unless the solider in question spoke the enemy's language,
I think it would only be useful to hear what the BBC says s.

During those infrequent stretches when the soldiers, sailors, airmen,
and Marines have a little free time, they might find Radio Farda or
Radio Sawa fun to listen to. I think they're a hoot.

http://www.radiofarda.com
http://www.radiosawa.com

My I make a suggestion?

If you do send a radio to a soldier, make is combo power radio.
I.E.: Solar, battery, crank up, ac radio. I have one and have never put
a battery in it nor have I ever connected it to ac.

Beloved Leader wrote:

"Warpcore" wrote in message link.net...

Sending someone a scanner or shortwave radio might make you feel warm and
fuzzy inside, but unless the solider in question spoke the enemy's language,
I think it would only be useful to hear what the BBC says s.

During those infrequent stretches when the soldiers, sailors, airmen,
and Marines have a little free time, they might find Radio Farda or
Radio Sawa fun to listen to. I think they're a hoot.

http://www.radiofarda.com
http://www.radiosawa.com

Beloved Leader wrote:

"Warpcore" wrote in message link.net...

Sending someone a scanner or shortwave radio might make you feel warm and
fuzzy inside, but unless the solider in question spoke the enemy's language,
I think it would only be useful to hear what the BBC says s.

During those infrequent stretches when the soldiers, sailors, airmen,
and Marines have a little free time, they might find Radio Farda or
Radio Sawa fun to listen to. I think they're a hoot.

http://www.radiofarda.com
http://www.radiosawa.com


I was listening to Radio Farda the other night. It is off-beat,
isn't it?

Tony


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