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Originally Posted by SteamWake
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Perhaps you've never had to requisition anything from the military. In 1931, SUBCOMPAC decided that non-standard equipment in offices made it difficult for skippers just passing through a port or possibly even sharing an office with other skippers to work efficiently so they started planning to standardize everything, right down to the picture frame on the desk (skippers would be allowed to bring their own pictures, if they wished, otherwise they would be provided a picture of the current SUBCOMPAC Commander). It took 10 years, but finally on 21NOV1941 the last of the radios was installed.
Naturally, once the war started, there was no money to modernize offices. We were in a war, transistors were needed on the submarines, not in the radios! Hence the radio's persistence through the end of the war. The last of the radios in Pearl Harbor were decommissioned in 1959, replaced by state of the art RCA 8-X-541's.
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Me: "Do you want me to run the copies through again?"
Boss: "Hold on, let me go get the alcohol first.
Me:
