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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Jefe:
None of the SF casualties in this war I am aware of, or mission failures have resulted from an inability to make commo. IIRC, most have been from the USAF dropping ordnance on friendlies, with commo up.
TR
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Point taken and understood, however I am not talking about the upper level of spectrum of conflict but the lower level. UW, plans for folks to go into areas now denied to us, urban opns where you may not be able to get a satellite shot, areas where the ability to just send and receive over a ground return line, lights, and other non-sophiscated means. The stuff we have now works great while the birds are flying and base stations are in range. Think long range commo where HF is the only option and atmospheric conditions absolutely suck. Code will always get thru where voice and data will not. I don't know, maybe this dinosauer's time has come and gone. Maybe I just don't think that technology is always the answer. Maybe I just am getting to old to change. And then maybe guys like Walker, Thorington, and other hard core commo guys that beat me around the head and shoulders from the 10th and could magically make commo anytime and anywhere just hit a spot of nostalgia for me where I feel that I might be betraying their efforts and skills. At any rate, it still pisses me off and I think it is a big mistake at the expense of graduating the appropriate number of folks from the 18E program.
Jack Moroney