My MOS was 2631 in the Corps. I ETSd and after 8 years and no future at home I joined again. They decided not to live up to the contract I signed so I joined the Army for 17 years. 98K MOS in the beginning and finished as a 98U. Stationed in Pensacola a few times, huachuca arizona, Aurora CO, Ft Lewis in the states and Edzell, Augsburg German, and Menwith Hill England twice.
Mike, Johnny Cash in 1953 was a USAF staff sergeant with a similar MOS to yours. He spent his duty in postwar Germany monitoring the Soviet's CW transmission and was the first American to learn of Stalin's death after listening to code transmissions throughout the night concerning his health and ultimately his death. You and LR obviously reached the skill level of hearing words rather than individual letters in CW. I never got beyond 20 wpm listening and at about the same speed sending (with a readable fist) with a straight key. I keep my head in the game by occasionally "sending" in my head roadside signs, etc., and have small QRP battery powered transceiver (Elecraft KX1) hooked to a random wire and counterpoise and monitor 40 meters. A lot of 35 wpm CW is sent on a computer keyboard and decoded on a computer and fewer and fewer ops use keys or bugs to send. Gil
