Wow - I am impressed! Thats a pretty hairy job - crew safety depends on a bug free install. I did some time with civil service maintaining test stand software for fighter/bomber jet engines. And yes - some of them were manufactured by GE:) That ended when I saw the IBM/CHarlie Chapman commercials. I am just not clonable to corporate jobs!:-)


>No, but I actually did know it at one time. Back in the early 80s when I was a fire control systems repairer on the Cobra and Apache helicopter I repaired the black boxes. It was also a part of my job to repair the weapons systems and that was all part of the information I had to know. It was reiterated over and over again during live fire training how important it was not to waste amunition due to the cost of the rounds to the taxpayer. However, I'm sure the cost has gone up at least 200% since then!
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>>Tracy,
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>>You are a regular walking "Janes":)
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>>You're probably right! I thought GE made the Phalanx system.
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>>I was a "framer" when in school. We used "nail guns". I remeber a salesman telling my crew - "the money is in the nails, not the gun"
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>>With 4.2 Million Lbs of depleted uranium on the ground (Nuclear Policy Watch), I tried to look up the cost, to the taxpayer, of a 20 mm, 30 mm and 40 mm "gatling" gun round. My guess is that that they may be over 100$ea. You wouldn't happen to have that data available, would you?:)
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>>>Hi Terry,
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>>>Are you sure you don't mean General Dynamics (not GE) Combat Systems Group (in Burlington, VT) which manufactures gatling guns for the F-15, F-16, and F-18 aircraft (as well as much more)? Prior to 1992 General Electric owned General Dynamics, but in 1992 it changed hands to Martin-Marietta.
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>>>>>I once had a course where my instructor gave the assignment to write a one page paper describing a ping pong ball using only facts. That's all he said. No one passed the test. If you said it was white, he said did you measure it with a spectragraph? If so, what were the results? If you said it was round, you were wrong, becuase it is not. Round describes a two dimensional object, it was spherical - a three dimensional adjective. My point is, newspapers give information, not facts, based on their political leanings. Your sources are filtering the data according to their religious/political/ethnic/etc. perspectives. Don't confuse facts with news.
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>>>>>John
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>>>>Great object summation. Lets tell that to all those lost American's and Iraqis that were forced to depart this world based on facts of WMDs and 9-11 Links from our administration and NYC news services and a willing public. Should we start laundering our "brown shirts"?
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>>>>Fact: GE owns NBC, MSNBC
>>>>Fact: GE manufactures gatling guns that fire depleted uranium bullets that GE also makes.
>>>>Fact: Iraq has 4.2 Million pounds (of depleted uranium)laced with her surface soil.
>>>>Fact: NBC promoted the WMD and 9-11 linkage stories (facilitated the "war").
>>>>Fact: GE made a lot of money by faciliting a war based on lies their NBC news division sold us.
>>>>Fact: GE does not have to pay death benefits to survivors of Americans or Iraqis that were killed during the military action.
>>>>Fact: There are no WMDs or 9-11 links in Iraq
>>>>Fact: Killing without justification is murder.
>>>>Fact: American service personal in recent reports and images are looking more like the KKK than professional soldiers.
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>>>>Assumption: Objectivity has failed us.
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>>>>Right now, the 'ole' objectivity card is a joke. Maybe it will work in your neighborhood, but it don't work in mine:). Mind games won't wash the blood off our hands!