Made a life changine decision..........

66fyssh said

I knew you were Navy, didn't know about TACAN! Their shop was next to ours. About the time I retired, the Air Force was combining, ATCALS (radio maint), Navigational Aids (NAVAIDS), and weather. They went to an "Airfield Maintenance" concept. Probably best now that a lot of stuff is going black box repair.

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I really did not do much with TACAN. Miramar was I would say, "overstaffed." Relaxing stateside shore duty, LOL. But the equipment was well maintained, Miramar was VERY busy in those days. We had two or three guys there had had TACAN C school.

We did surprisingly little cross training with the com guys. The Navy (Treasure Island) back then ran us through part of ET-A school, then divided the class into communications vs RADAR techs, which I was. They told us we could not change, but I wanted to. Of course the way things came out I'm glad I was RADAR.