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     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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