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Cool story bro.304X4 here ground radio. However I think the AFSCs are different now. Somehow I wound up doing geodetic survey shit for the last three years too. There are no longer any survey specialist in the Air Force today, it's all done by NGA now, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. In ground radio we got all the odd orphaned stuff like geoceivers of all things.
306X0 is gone ... it's a 40 pin DIP now-a-days ... I left and soldered in the civilian market for a bit, until I saw my first robot, been swinging a hammer ever since ...
I still occasionally have nightmares about triode wave forms ... 40 years later and I can't shake the horrors of the battlefield ...
What bugged me for years was the thought of the nukes. Having been down in the silos and seeing those ICBMs and contemplating what they were build to do gave me the Willie's especially since I was helping. I had nuclear nightmares and woke up in cold sweats for years after until for some strange reason when the Berlin wall came down they stopped. However nothing has really improved if not gotten worse. The stuff in Nam didn't bother me nearly as much as that although I got my ass shot at a few times. Oddly enough an event in Thailand scared me the most because I'd thought I was safe there. That was right up until the rockets and mortars started walking down the runway right beside me. WTF!
Thanks. I was just swapping war stories with another vet. There are fewer and fewer around anymore. It's one of those you have to have been there kinda things so I take the opportunity to commiserate when I can.