posted on Nov, 12 2005 @ 01:54 PM
The following is an exchange between myself and the Mr Green that Carrierwave is so often referring to. I received no reply to my second email.
From: "dennis zxxxxxx"
To: hrgreenjr#hotmail.com
Subject: TACMARS
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 21:50:10 -0800
You are bloody whacky. I had 16 yrs in the military, and I have never heard of tacmars until I hit this site. BTW, the UN vehicle in Edmonton is a
Ferret that has not been in use for over 20 yrs and that one in particular is mounted on display.
From: "Harold Green"
To: rigger#lycos.com
CC:
Subject: RE: TACMARS
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 19:27:59 +0000
Look, sir, there are many like you who think they know it all because you were once in uniform. A lot goes over your head you don't know about. Get
off your high horse and critical attitude. You are either a big fat liar or just one who was never informed about the signcodes. I will give you the
benefit of the doubt-- you are just uninformed. I have regular contact with special forces Marines who know all about it. The biggest training ground
in night vision signcode operations is at Camp Grayling, Mi. I have been there and have seen the trails with the signs set-up on the ranges and the
tacmars. Go back to sleep and don't bother me again. (As far as the UN vehicle is concerned there are hundreds and probably thousands of UN vehicles
and equipment here in the U.S. on bases. I did not take the pictures, but it just goes to show the UN military are welcome everywhere by our military
leaders.)
From: "dennis zxxxxxx"
To: "Harold Green"
CC:
Subject: RE: TACMARS
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:02:39 -0800
Okay, I thought long and hard before deciding to contact you again
about this. I have re-read through your site and some others as well.
You raise some interesting points about the reflectivity of date
stickers, and date stickers that have no date indicated.
And I will give you credit for determining that the location in
Edmonton garrison with the tops in barbed wire is a detention
facility.
As a matter of fact, the official name for it is "Canadian
Forces Service Detention Barracks", very similar to your own
Leavenworth KS facility. It is where members of the Canadian Forces
serve time in the event they breach the Code of Service Discipline
(like your UCMJ).
I must ask you this: Who in particular are these markings intended to
inform? Recce parties? Command posts? Individual vehicle drivers?
Packet commanders? Pilots?
Anyone who has a need to use them must be able to interpret them.
That means that the intended users must practice regularly so that
the symbols are not misinterpreted under actual operations.
I was a flight engineer in a tactical helicopter unit for six years.
I took several escape and evasion courses. I was a driver instructor
and driver examiner as a secondary duty. My unit supported our
counter terrorist unit. I spent seven years as part of the Base
defence force, working closely with the MPs.I have friends in just
about every trade in the forces.
I spent six months in Kosovo as part of the invasion force that
pushed the Serbs out. We were a multinational force that encompassed
Canada, UK, US, Finland, Sweden, Italy, Czech republic, Norway,
France, Russia, and Germany. I think that that would be an
appropriate place for the use of a common symbology, but nobody ever
mentioned tacmars.
And having served in the military as long as I did, I know that there
is no such thing as a secret. Somebody always talks about it.
As convincing as some of your arguments seem to be, and as passionate
as you are about this, the one thing that screams "baloney" to me is
that for this system to work, many people have to know about it, yet
I have never heard a whisper about any of this before finding your
site.
It was impolite of me to call you whacky. I have no evidence that
this system is not in effect. However, I do not believe that it is
true.
Bringing up the particular vehicle to which I was referring, the one
in Edmonton, it is a Ferret that is owned by the CF and was used on
peacekeeping missions by an armoured recce unit. Most likely in
Cyprus. Then it was retired and put on display in its UN livery to
remind people of the peacekeepers that lost their lives protecting
those that couldn't protect themselves.
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