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  • Founded: Jul 5, 2001
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1 jimbogue Offline Send Email Jul 5, 2001
9:53 am
Welcome to the Yahoo! Message Board for MARS and Vietnam...
2 lewis228 Offline Send Email Jul 5, 2001
7:28 pm
After several tries I finally got joined up. Thanks Jim - hope we get a bunch more in on this.<br><br>lewis...
3 jimbogue Offline Send Email Jul 5, 2001
8:49 pm
Welcome aboard Lewis. I'm sure more will join us as the word gets out.<br><br>One thing I thought of is that we need an historian. Someone with a good memory -...
4 k5wd Offline Send Email Jul 6, 2001
12:06 am
Jim:<br><br>Did you find my aviator sunglasses at N0EFD. I forgot them the day I left at the end of March '67. They were up on the 2x4 above my bunk at the NE ...
5 ve6nn Offline Send Email Jul 6, 2001
4:58 am
Finally figured out how to get a membership in this club.<br><br>Funny how after all these years (35 or so) we all seem to be getting back together again. I...
6 danborgman Offline Send Email Jul 6, 2001
6:27 am
What a Brilliant Idea! Guess they don't make 'em Master Gunny's for nothing. I agree with Will though. Seemed like it was easier to join the Corps. But, as ...
7 n0efc Offline Send Email Jul 6, 2001
6:33 am
This is n0efc wishing all stations best wishes.<br>It been a long time but the memories are fresh and still in my heart. Think of all of you often and hope all...
8 jimbogue Offline Send Email Jul 6, 2001
9:26 am
Hey Will, great to hear from you. I think your sun glasses were still there. But momma san was wearing them and claimed they were hers. And the radio positions...
9 jimbogue Offline Send Email Jul 6, 2001
9:30 am
Welcome Aboard!!! Glad you made it. I figured that if we were smart enough to get into MARS years ago then Yahoo would be a snap for you guys.<br><br>Jim...
10 jimbogue Offline Send Email Jul 6, 2001
9:40 am
Hi Dan - Welcome Aborad. Glad you figured out the maze at Yahoo.<br><br>Have you had a chance to check out the pic of me, Jim Kuhl, Chris, & Dan Gannon? ...
11 jimbogue Offline Send Email Jul 6, 2001
10:10 am
Thanks to Bob Runyon we have the story of how we got the phone booth and redphone at EFD. I think that we were using the same booth and phone in '69 when I got...
12 k5wd Offline Send Email Jul 6, 2001
2:18 pm
Jim:<br><br>I think that N0TEF was Pendleton's call (their amatuer call was w6iab - i ate a bug). When EFD was at CHU LAI we were working both TEF and EL Toro...
13 k5wd Offline Send Email Jul 6, 2001
8:01 pm
Bill:<br><br>In '65 and '66 Bob McCallum and a Sgt who I think was called Smitty (Smith, not to be confused with Roger Smith at N0EFB at DaNang) were at N0EFC...
14 danborgman Offline Send Email Jul 7, 2001
3:46 am
N0ANP was San Diego I believe. I'll do some research. By the way, the Librarian at San Bernadino Library - Barstow branch is sending me the article about...
15 jimbogue Offline Send Email Jul 7, 2001
12:07 pm
Hi Will,<br><br>I think you just about summed it up for all of us. We all have fond memories of all the calls we made which usually brightened up someones day....
16 jimbogue Offline Send Email Jul 7, 2001
12:21 pm
Your right, ANP was MCRD San Diego's call sign. I remember making some reference to the food chain when using the call sign. Stationed there in Feb 70 after ...
17 jimbogue Offline Send Email Jul 7, 2001
12:24 pm
Dan - good deal on the article on Bill. Thanks, Jim...
18 n0efc Offline Send Email Jul 7, 2001
4:54 pm
de n0efc; n0anp was our primary station for state side phone patches and MARS grams. On<br>occasions n0anp would blow down the door. We also used a station at...
19 jimbogue Offline Send Email Jul 8, 2001
2:04 pm
Got the Redphone story resized and it all fits now. Quite a story and a gratifing example of the kind of support that MARS received. Way to go Bob....
20 k5wd Offline Send Email Jul 8, 2001
5:15 pm
Jim and all:<br><br>I was digging through a bunch of old pictues and stuff and found an article from the January 1965, 29 Palms base newspaper about the ...
21 wxsby Offline Send Email Jul 9, 2001
4:18 am
Finally figured out how to get into this discussion group. Had to delete my wife's Yahoo thing because it thought I was her.<br><br>Yes, ANP was MCRD, San...
22 lewis228 Offline Send Email Jul 10, 2001
2:01 am
If those of you in the "other" service don't mind an old army operator doing it I'll compile a list of the stations....
23 lewis228 Offline Send Email Jul 10, 2001
12:00 pm
Jim suggested in his first post to me that a "historian" was needed to track our stations.<br>I will keep a list as below and add to or modify it as necessary....
24 k5wd Offline Send Email Jul 10, 2001
11:18 pm
Lewis:<br><br>Just what do you mean the guys in the "other sevice?" I didn't know there was any other service but, "The Few, The Proud, The Marines." Also, ...
25 lewis228 Offline Send Email Jul 10, 2001
11:42 pm
"Other Service:" just a dig from the army. My brother is/was a Marine 2533 MOS at Pendleton in the 1MARDIV and was discharged just prior to the Asian venture...
26 wxsby Offline Send Email Jul 11, 2001
2:28 am
First, Will, I apologize, but I zulu'd your pics of Rotella. I need the two best ones for a link from the marspage roster. In late '68 he told Delrae she ...
27 danborgman Offline Send Email Jul 11, 2001
4:56 am
Some old idiot from Ramona claimed this call sign!<br>I've sent emails to all the MARS regions to see if any of them have the DNC-8 (SUPP) prior to 1971. So...
28 jimbogue Offline Send Email Jul 11, 2001
9:13 am
Joe Van Brocklin was a Marine Warrant Officer. He is the father of Marine Corps participation in Navy MARS. Without Joe's vision and determination none of what...
29 ve6nn Offline Send Email Jul 12, 2001
5:28 am
Do not remember where YDK was but do remember they used the phonetics Young Doctor Killdare.<br><br>My own personal MARS call was N0ZGL. It was active on...
30 ve6nn Offline Send Email Jul 12, 2001
5:45 am
Do any of you remember ordering radios from Henry Radio (Walt himself took the orders). I remember making patches with the Old Cotton Picker (MPPF) anyone...
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