From: Longhunter7 (longhunter7@comcast.net)
Date: Fri Sep 19 2003 - 13:31:20 PDT
Yes, Ma Bell was included in Civil Defense! When I started with Ma Bell, way
back in 1970, they still had trucks that were O.D.! The reason for the O.D.
paint job was, in case of War, the telecommunications equipment would be
harder to target! They gave up that idea and started painting the trucks
white! Now with EMP "electro-magnetic-pulse" technology, it doesn't matter
what color the equipment is, it is all fried! I still consider myself part
of Civil Defense, just waiting to help!
Longhunter7 out!
MVPA #23952
72 AM General M35A2C w/w
> From: m35products <m35prod@optonline.net>
> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:14:52 -0400
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Subject: Re: [MV] 20 years from now
>
>
> Why not just bring the Civil Defense back?
>
> Um...excuse me but the Civil Defense never went anywhere, thank you. They
> (we, for I am a member) have always been around, are still around, and
> continue to be a mis-managed, ill-equipped, under-funded and largely ignored
> force. We answer to many names.* Your local fire department is technically
> part of CD, as is FEMA, haz-mat response units (both paid and volunteer),
> various auxiliary police units, most telephone company trucks and many of
> the workers who drive them, and the list goes on.
>
> Through budget whittling, complacency, and ignorance on the part of
> government and the general public, the once-important CD force is a mere
> shell. It surprised and saddened many of us who hold CD credentials when we
> heard all the hoopla about Gov. Tom "Deer caught in the headlights" Ridge
> getting his cabinet position. The "homeland security department" was already
> there, just waiting for someone to notice it.
>
> MV content: I once had an M37 that had the CD sticker on the doors, under
> several layers of paint. It had belonged to a local ambulance service.
>
> * My (former) telephone company ID card, along with my Auxiliary Police ID
> and my Fire Department ID all had/have the CD symbol affixed.
>
>
> A P Bloom
>
>
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