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Some of the old outfits include Philco
Techrep, Ford Aerospace, Page Communications, RCA, Federal Electric, ITT
Arctic, Bendix (BFEC), Hughes, Loral, Collins, Raytheon, Lockheed, Kellog
Brown & Root, Bechtel, Bell Helicopter, AFSCN, to name just a few.
Thought for the Day: If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen.
July
2009 - Still two more eye surgeries scheduled, however the fools at
Nevada DMV issued me a new license, one without restrictions for wearing
glasses. For a guy who has had to put on his glasses to pee since 1948
this is quite a change. In any event I am able to see the computer
screen now and have almost caught up on the backlog here on ExReps.
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Vern Koelling - Philco, Raytheon - Just found the site on the internet.I was on Peace Ruby in 1970-71 at the site at Kerman and Bander Abbas. I contacted hepatitis an Bandar Abbas and spent 6 weeks in a Terhan
hospital. Since then I did normal in the USA. Prior I spent six years with Raytheon Company on over the horizon Air Force project in the Philippines & Japan . Overseas word seems like a book I once read. I have some Iran photos I can dig up for you. I visited Persepolis often and toured Iran when possible. We worked 84 hours a week at Kerman site. I think it was #8 or #14. I really enjoyed the site.
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Charles "Charlie" Green - Philco Ford - Left Philco in 69 when the contract in Thailand ended. Stayed around (Bangkok) on my own for another 4 years after that. Still know 4 or 5 of my old friends still living there! I never did go back to work in electronics. Have been in Northern California since 1986. Own a small winery here. Don't make any money, but have fun.
Richard (Rick) Lambert - Aeroneutronic Ford, Ford Aerospace, Loral - First assigned to TT&C Area New Boston Station, NH in 1975, Transferred to Thule in 1979 and then Indian Ocean Station 1984 to 1995.
CF "Mitch" Mitchell - Philco-Ford, Ford Aerospace, Whittaker Corp, Hughes Aircraft, Grumman International, Edusystems - I was with Philco-Ford and then Ford Aerospace and maybe when it became Aeronutronic Ford, I'm not sure. I started out in Thailand in 1966 and went to Ecuador in 1969, Iran in 1974, all with the previous organizations. Went to Saudi Arabia with Whittaker Corp. in 1975, Iran again with Hughes Aircraft in 1976 and switched to Grumman International in 1978. I left Iran in February 1979 and went to Trinidad and Tobago in 1980 with Edusystems out of Fontana, Wisconsin. That was the end of my Tech-Rep career.
Richard (Dick) Kimball - Philco, Philco-Ford, Ford Aerospace - August 1959 - November 1961 Radar Technician, AC&W Site. Empire, Michigan. December 1961 - June 1964 Radar Technician, AC&W Site. Kume Jima (off Okinawa). June 1964 - June 1965 Radar Technician, AC&W Site, Neah Bay, Washington. June 1965 - March 1966 MRC-98 Tropo Technician. , Takhli Airbase, Thailand. March 1966 - December 1966 Site Manager, MRC-98 Tropo, Udorn Airbase, Thailand. December 1966 - April 1967 Site Manager, MRC-98 Tropo., ChiangMai, Thailand. April 1967 - October 1967 System Tech Super, MRC-98 Tropo, Bangkok, Thailand. October 1967 - October 1968 Site Logistics Manager, Seekdawn, Danang (Monkey Mountain), South Vietnam. October 1968 - July 1969 Logistics Manager, Seekdawn Project, Bangkok, Thailand. July 1969 - June 1970 Tech Rep (PACAF) for Seekdawn sites, Udorn Airbase, Thailand, Danang (Monkey Mountain), and Saigon, South Vietnam. June 1970 - February 1973 Logistics Supervisor, R&U Supply Facility, U.S. Army XXIV Corp, Civil Engineering Group. Danang Airbase & Saigon. Closed out U.S. Army contracts in Danang and Saigon. Back to the U.S. as Ford had no openings. A few Philco-Ford Tech Reps I worked with in my travels, primarily overseas. Jim Shaw, General Frank Dooley, Roger Wolf, Ed Walker, Dave Christopher, Charlie Green, George Misfud, David Diefenbaugh, Jerry Chamberlain, Charlie Albert, Joe Dennen, Leroy Johnson, Chet Davis, Don Hoagland, Herb Barton, Duster Rhynes, Jim Loggins II, Gene D. Moore, Gene Lovas, Len Matyzek, Dick Castleberry, Jay Besser, Louie Espinosa, Rod Rodriques, Fred Mucciardi
Dan Todd Philco Tech Rep, Philco Ford, WDL, Loral, Todd Consulting - I hired on with Tech Rep in 65, spent a year on Guam as HVAC tech,went to Thailand 66-68 with IWCS as HVAC Supv. to Iran 69-72 Peace Ruby, again as HVAC Supv.,back to Iran 73-74 as Mech Engineer,Peace Scepter, then worked out of the Willow Grove,PA plant where I had various other field assignments in Liberia,Belgium and Morrocco. Transfered to WDL Palo Alto in 79,worked in facilities engineering as energy guru, Mech. Engineer, and construction project engineer,retired after 27 years in 93 as Loral WDL Facilities Mgr in San Jose.I went on as a consultant to Loral & L-3 Communications on many diverse construction projects across the US until 2007, retired again in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho,near my son & grandkids.I saw many names I recognized in your roster, sad to hear so many have passed on.Who could have guessed that day when I signed on with Bill Mcgee, (a Philco recruiter,) in Sacremento, CA, Sept. 1965, what a fabulous experience and carreer I had in front of me.World travel and every day an adventure, every project and education.
Bernard O'Connor Ford AeroSpace - I was in Ford AeroSpace Engineering, I was transferred there when the Philco Research Division was closed down by Ford.
John Hill - Philco and Philco-Ford - I worked as a tech rep from April 1961 thru July 1967. Assignments included Lowery AFB CO from April 1961 thru December 1961; Griffis AFB NY from January 1962 to June 1963; Great Lakes Naval Training Center Il from July 1963 thru December 1963; Camp Lejune NC from January 1964 thru June 1965; Vamdenbur AFB CA from July 1965 thru June 1966 and Morganfield KY from July 1966 thru July 1967.
Ron Altman - RCA, FELEC Svcs (ITT) RCA BMEWS (Thule) 1966-1967. ITT FELEC Services Thule BMEWS contract, 1980. Working for FELEC made me realize what a great company RCA was!
Davis Brewer - Philco TecRep, I was hired in January 48, took 16 months out in 51-52 for active duty Navy, then back to the job until transfer to Navy Civil Service in 1964. I spent my first year in Alaska, then SAC, Navy ServLant, NAESU
Durwood Sanderson - RCA, Started with rca on research project, maintainability. Trying to determaine length of repair on a given radar, with troops of various rank (experience and time in grade.) Job of tech rep after that. North Dakota, spent most of time teaching Iff systems to young airmen.
To begin I would like to thank you keeping this site going. I am sure it keeps a lot of folks an opportunity to keep in touch with old friends. My name is Neal White and there are a couple of changes that I would like to make to my listing. 1. My new e-mail address is: OldTracker@gmail.com 2. Add Federal Electric Corp. before Philco, etc
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Some things just make your go hmmmm . . . If you run across something on the Net that just has to be shared please send it along so I can add it to the system. I am also looking for a voulenteer to take over editing this feature.
Always wanted your own Predator Drone with Hellfire missile ? This is a site for all things about amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): How-to's, videos, discussion and more
From Dr. Dobbs Journal - But software engineering is where the rubber meets the road. Few people care whether P equals NP just for the beauty of the question. The computer field is about doing things with computers. This means writing software to solve human problems, and running that software on real machines
STRING theory: you love it or loathe it. To some it represents our best hope for a route to a "theory of everything"; others portray it as anything from a mathematically obtuse minefield to a quasi-religion that has precious little to do with science.
Stem cells used to restore sight for corneal disease sufferers. Although the novel technique was used to reverse blinding corneal disease, it promises to be a quick, painless and cheap treatment for other visual disorders. It may even be useful for repairing damaged skin, the researchers reported today in the journal Transplantation.
The CrunchPad is a linux-based touchscreen tablet using a browser-based UI. When you turn the unit on, it boots right into the webkit-based browser. There's a pop-up virtual keyboard for entering URLs and such (you wouldn't want to do any significant typing on it) and scrolling is via swiping the screen. When Arrington first visualized the project he was shooting for a $200 price point
Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis turned away patients in ambulances for two hours Tuesday morning, according to an article in the Indianapolis Star. Why? Because a power surge blew out their computers, which house their electronic health records (EHRs), and after half a day or so the backlog on their paperwork was intolerable.
Coffee consumption may reduce the risk of Parkinson’s, type 2 diabetes, several types of cancer, suicide and some mood disorders, gallstones, liver cirrhosis and even cavities.
Monday, Mar. 09, 1959 - The Reluctant Refugee - When he took a good look at the results of last November's Democratic landslide, Michigan Farmer Stanley Yankus Jr. decided to give up his five-year battle against federal crop controls. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,825647,00.html
What would you do with a $40 Linux computer the size of a three-prong plug adapter?
Slashdot - http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/24/1918217&tid=222
PogoPlug - http://www.pogoplug.com/
Marvell Plug Computing Partners - https://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/plugpartners.jsp
Mars landers destroying signs of life? Instead of identifying chemicals that could point to life, NASA's robot explorers may have been toasting them by mistake.
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Cynthea Pollock "Thea" I am
hoping to reach a Mr. John Stephenson who worked with my mother, Rita
Dearborn, at Philco Ford in the mid 60's. thank thee,
Normandy Landing Certificate of Appreciation -
If
there are fellow t/r's (as old as i) that served with the US forces
during the Normandy landings or duty on Normandy during the period
1944-1945, send the French consulate a photo copy of your discharge and
you will receive a very nice certificate of appreciation from the French
government. The address is Consulat General De France A Los Angeles,
10999 Wiltshire Boulevard, suite 300, Los Angles, CA 900243-3918 . Web
site at Http://www.consulfrance-losangeles.org.
Bob
Vogt Phoenix Cripes2@aol.com .
Cold War Certificate of Recognition -
If you
served as a member of the US Armed Forces between 1945 and 1991,
you are eligible for a certificate of recognition from the department of
defense. Click here
to see what it looks like, The Army has not updated its certificates for
their website;
July
2009 - Still two more eye surgeries scheduled, however the fools at
Nevada DMV issued me a new license, one without restrictions for wearing
glasses. For a guy who has had to put on his glasses to pee since 1948
this is quite a change. In any event I am able to see the computer
screen now and have almost caught up on the backlog here on ExReps.
Check out the new stats in lower right hand side
Some things just make your go hmmmm . . . If you run across something on the Net that just has to be shared please send it along so I can add it to the system. I am also looking for a voulenteer to take over editing this feature.
