Re: Alarm system transformer + power supply (would both go bad atonce?)

[The Daring Dufas <the-daring-dufas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/6/2013 10:43 PM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
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> Tony Hwang wrote:
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>> Michael A. Terrell wrote:
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>>> Stormin Mormon wrote:
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>>>> On 12/6/2013 8:45 PM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
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>>>>>       This was the early '70s and they were training medivac pilots for
>>>>> Vietnam, so there were no female pilots at the time. Women were not
>>>>> allowed in combat zones back then. The air was pumped into their egos to
>>>>> made them crazy and brave enough to fly into areas where the enemy would
>>>>> shoot down a medical copter.  The only girls around Rucker back then
>>>>> were hookers or underage girls who would fool a GI into sex, then make
>>>>> them sign over half their pay (For their entire time they remained in
>>>>> the service) to keep from being charged with rape.  Some were getting
>>>>> half the pay from over a dozen GIs.
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like the welcome committee, provided by
>>>> our overseas allies (not!).
>>>
>>>
>>>      They were the reason the military showed all those damned VD films.
>>> 'Camp Followers' have been around, since the first armies existed.
>>>
>>>
>> Hi, Mike
>> Were you in 'Nam during that time? Telling things from word of mouth or
>> from real real life experience?
>
>     My orders to Vietnam were changed to Alaska at the last minute. The
> TV station I was to work at was over run about two weeks after I would
> have arrived, and it's very likely I wouldn't be here since most of the
> staff was killed. I got what was left of a 5 KW Gates VHF TV transmitter
> for parts at the station in Alaska.
>
>     I had several underage girls try to trick me into bed while stationed
> at Ft. Rucker.  They used a lot of makeup, and some guys fell for it.
> The worst part was that their families were making them prostitute
> themselves because the parent or parents were too lazy to work. Some of
> the girls were just 13.  A couple of the other soldiers kept track of
> who they were, and warned you they were minors.  Still, a lot of guys
> were screwed out of half of their pay, until they retired or didn't
> re-enlist.
>
>

You must be careful of girls from LA, Lower Alabama. ^_^

TDD