RE: [MV] RADIOACTIVE stenciled on S250

From: Trish & Carla (wa6ube@tactical-link.com)
Date: Sat Oct 11 2003 - 11:14:13 PDT

I would think that the "Radioactive" stencil is only meaningful
if it had previously been out at the Nevada Test range, as many
other vehicles had been, and exposed to the effects of nuclear
blast..

Many videos are now available that document tests such as
the "Buster/Jangle" , and "Upstart/Knothole" series of tests
at Nevada ..

Military vehicles, aircraft, tanks, APC's were placed at
various distances and orientatation from ground zero,
with live pigs in them as test subjects,
in order to determine, to some degree,
whether real occupants would survive either the initial blast
or later effects from fallout ..

If you are in the Bay area, I do have an accurate low-level
survey meter that can measure all the way down
to the micro-roentgen range,
and would be happy to scan your shelter for you..

Another likely possibility is some idiot stenciled "Radioactive"
just because the meters and knobs of the gear had radium in them..

Trish .. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
Behalf Of International Movie Services
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 11:04
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Subject: Re: [MV] RADIOACTIVE stenciled on S250

Then again you the last user unit could have had the equivalent of a
Corporal Sutherland who was in my Transport Company. He was in
charge of
cutting and applying stencils and pretty soon everything, including
the
kitchen truck was stencilled "radioactive", "death from within".
Fuel
fillers had "dilithium only", and tailgates had "0 to 40 same day".
My CP
truck had "front towards enemy" on the hood!
As a result he had the stencil cutter and his paint taken away and
was
banished to the MRT team!
Cheers!
Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Beattie" <bruce@eecs.berkeley.edu>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 7:31 PM
Subject: [MV] RADIOACTIVE stenciled on S250

> I have a very nice S250. The radios were taken out, but the
condition
> inside and out
> is almost like new. In fact, I dought if it ever saw any duty at
all. I
> have had it for
> about 4 years now, and although I knew there was some stenciled
letters
> on the back,
> they had been sprayed over by DRMO so I never really paid that
much
> attention to it.
> I was more interested in setting it up as a camper.
>
>     One day a complete stranger walks by and asks what it is, and
I tell
> him it's a Radio
> Teletype, and then have to explain what that is. Then he asks me
why
> there is this
> stenciled on letters 1 inch high that spells RADIOACTIVE? I
snapped
> around and duh,
> there it is hiding under a few splotches of spray paint, but none
the
> less quite ledgible.
>
>     Any idea what was going on with this unit that they would put
that
> on it?
>
> The irony of this whole thing is that Bezerkeley is one of those
places
> that has declared
> themselves a nuclear free zone. I never did understand that
either,
> since I never met a
> bomb that could read and obey instructions from the ground.
>
>     So there is your Friday night puzzle.
>
> Bruce MVPA 23824    (Starting to glow in the dark)
>
>
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