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  Re: CQ CQ CQ
  By: Don Vally to DENNIS SCOTT on Thu Mar 16 2023 08:07 am

 > Your job sounds harder to me, you actually had to do some problem
 > solving! Just a quick aside, what was your MOS?
 >
Well, the learning side was a little difficult I guess. I went to a year of
tech school for electronics before cross training in the Air Force over to
Communications. Then that course was another year and of course that's only
the beginning as every assignment had new types of fixed and portable
transmitter/receivers and ancillary equipment like consoles, ATIS, video and
audio recorders, etc. But, none of it was hard, quite the opposite really. I
enjoyed it, got to travel all over the world and even got a little bit of
money each month for my troubles.

I had one assignment to Kelley AFB in Texas, at that time, headquarters for
electronic security command - the super secret Air Force command for people
sort of like what you did but by that time (1990's) it was mainly audio and
data that they were listening to/monitored. I hated entering that complex as
the security was unbelievable with multilevels of entry points, guards at all
hallways and stairs, and even the cables had to run outside the walls in color
coded conduit. No windows, etc. No, man, you can have that crap, I hated it,
so I retired and resumed my next life.

In the Air Force, it was not a MOS, it was an AFSC (Air Force Specialty Code).
I was a 30494, Two Way Communications Tech. The comparable MOS would probably
be a depot level repair tech for field radios like VRC-46's, PRC-66's, or
fixed base radios like KWM-2A's, etc, all of which I have repaired at some
point in my career. I don't know if they still use AFSC's or not. Things have
changed so much in the military now...

Anyhow, thanks for your service!! It was guys like you that kept us safe at
night whether most people knew it or not.

Cheers,
Dennis
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