Re: Tom's demons are strong today! Re: RE: Re: Higher Education Is Overrated

On Mon, 04 Nov 2024 00:06:49 -0800, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
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On Mon, 04 Nov 2024 12:37:45 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
wrote:
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On Sun, 03 Nov 2024 19:12:04 -0800, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
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On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 20:49:03 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Tom's demons are strong and raging today! He's digging back months to
resurrect piles of dead threads so he can hurl more insults and threats
at those who have disrespected him.
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Something very bad must have happened at his home. Something even worse
than botching a component installation yet again!

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It probably wasn't something "bad".  My guess(tm) is that he sorted
his news readers list of articles by name, subject or sender, instead
of by date.  It's easy to do by accident.  He might have also turned
off threading, which arranges articles on a given "Subject" into a
tree.  Without the tree structure, untangling articles into a logical
sequence is rather difficult.  The resulting mess also explains why
Tom is switching back and forth between two newsreaders
(newshosting.com reader and Pan) which can be identified by his name
vacillating between "cyclintom" and "Tom Kunich".  The newshosting.com
newsreader:
<https://www.newshosting.com/newsreader/>
is also responsible for the multiple "RE: Re: RE: Re:" mess in the
subject line.  The Windoze version of Pan is also well behind the
current Linux version, which means that Pan bugs tend to become
permanent.

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I really wonder about some of Tommy's posts. He goes on and on about
the period he seems to have spent at Guam in support of the B-52
missions over N Vietnam.
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Our base sent people temporary duty to Guam for 90 days and then they
returned and a different group was selected but for whatever reason
they weren't required to go.
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So out of a 4 year enlistment some of out guys served in Guam for 3
months but Tommy's post are all about his service in Guam as though
that was the only place he served during his entire 4 year A.F.
service... or maybe he was never in the A.F. at all?

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I don't know anything about how the USAF operated at the time.
Presumably, it was after he had some training, possibly at Lowry AFB
from 1961 to 1962 as shown on his online resume at:
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-kunich-22012/>

I doubt very much that any training he had was for much more then a
very few months as the A.F.  has been training people since 1947, or
there about, and the normal "school day" will be about 8 hours, a
normal "work day". The usual process is to first be trained in, say,
"basic electronics" which gives you the basics and then, if required,
a course on the specific device you re going to be assigned to
service.

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I didn't know what to think until Tom posted a highly unlikely fantasy
about how the USAF sent avionics for him to fix from Vietnam to Tom in
Oakland and then back to Vietnam.  Here's something on that amazing
claim.  There's more but it's late and I'm burned out from relaxing
too much today:

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07/04/2022
<https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/ZMiLSdqisfg/m/LCkJkdp7BwAJ>
"I worked for Bayaire Avionics for 4 years during the Vietnam Airlift
as an avionics technician."
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07/04/2022
<https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/ZMiLSdqisfg/m/p0Ugd2OEBwAJ>
The Vietnam Airlift lasted a grand total of 2 days:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Frequent_Wind>
I'm missing something here. The Vietnam Airlift was in Vietnam.
Bayaire was in Oakland, CA. Did they fly the helicopters back and
forth across the Pacific Ocean?
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07/05/2022
<https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/ZMiLSdqisfg/m/Hvi1fsv9AQAJ>
More on Bayaire Avionics.

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Cheers,

John B.