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Keyser Soze

On 1/4/20 11:01 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 05:22:03 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:

Tim wrote:

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I saw that the Navy is going back to teaching celestial navigation to
their crews so somebody must think it is important. I suppose someone
pointed out the GPS satellites might only last a couple days in a real
war.
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I’d heard Morse code is coming back too. Even for military pilots. I’d
think it’s a good deal

You always had to learn Morse as a military pilot. Just not very fast. As
the identifiers on navigation aids was Morse. When I worked on TACAN, we
just looked at the tabs to make sure it was set up correctly.

We had to be able to copy 6 WPM in boot camp.

Learning Morse was part of some Scout merit badge I earned. Flag
signaling was part of it, too. We practiced flag waving at a week-long
Scout camp I attended. When we got home, our moms hosed the dirt off us.
Great time. I was 12 or 13.