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KB5PQL

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RE: Navy marine Corp Mars ends September 30 2015
« Reply #105 on: July 27, 2015, 06:08:03 PM »

Well, I am officially an Air Force Mars member.

As expected, I do not like it very much, but I will give it one year and see how it goes.

I spend more hours on Navy Marine Corp Mars nets than Air Force nets. I will be on Navy Marine Corp nets  until someone turns off the lights and locks the door.


 

Same here...I'll just sunset with NMCMARS at the end of September.  Even today..the net participation is thinning out. I've called nets a few weeks in a row with nobody checking in anymore.  I'll keep doing my part until the end of September. :(
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KA1VF

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RE: Navy marine Corp Mars ends September 30 2015
« Reply #106 on: August 21, 2015, 08:11:33 PM »

I was just looking at the published online schedule for this weekend's ARRL New England Convention
held in Boxborough, MA (August 21, 22, 23) at the Holiday Inn. The schedule for Sunday (August 23)
shows a session entitled "MARS Forum", and the lead speaker is listed as Bob Mims (WA1OEZ) from
9:00 am until 11:00 am.

                                   note: the description for that session says verbatim as follows.

            "MARS Open Forum"

            "Hosted jointly by the Air Force and Army New England Directors"

            "This will give interested amateurs information about what today's MARS really does,
             and what it has become."

                                   note: my question to you is what has it become?
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W6EM

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RE: Navy marine Corp Mars ends September 30 2015
« Reply #107 on: August 22, 2015, 07:07:59 PM »

And while MARS "reinvents" itself, along comes Rockwell Collins with a for-fee radio service for state and local governments.  Something that sounds a lot like what MARS now claims it does.  Or, supports, such as SHARES.  http://www.eham.net/articles/35166

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RE: Navy marine Corp Mars ends September 30 2015
« Reply #108 on: August 27, 2015, 09:57:40 AM »

My question is what is the need for MARS? Seems like the armed forces communication systems are so advanced today there is no need for an amateur reserve for any reason. Gee, even had a friend in the Marines call the house from a sat phone to talk to us from a ship who knows where.

Manual traffic handling in MARS is just pointless in my opinion. Seems like the entire MARS program should be shut down for all branches.

BTW, I was a previous MARS member many years ago.
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RE: Navy marine Corp Mars ends September 30 2015
« Reply #109 on: August 27, 2015, 10:06:24 AM »

My question is what is the need for MARS? Seems like the armed forces communication systems are so advanced today there is no need for an amateur reserve for any reason. Gee, even had a friend in the Marines call the house from a sat phone to talk to us from a ship who knows where.

Manual traffic handling in MARS is just pointless in my opinion. Seems like the entire MARS program should be shut down for all branches.

BTW, I was a previous MARS member many years ago.
Better add ARES, and RACES as well...  :)
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RE: Navy marine Corp Mars ends September 30 2015
« Reply #110 on: August 27, 2015, 03:22:26 PM »

My question is what is the need for MARS? Seems like the armed forces communication systems are so advanced today there is no need for an amateur reserve for any reason. Gee, even had a friend in the Marines call the house from a sat phone to talk to us from a ship who knows where.

Manual traffic handling in MARS is just pointless in my opinion. Seems like the entire MARS program should be shut down for all branches.

BTW, I was a previous MARS member many years ago.
Better add ARES, and RACES as well...  :)
I guess one might say that our friends, the Chinese, might someday take aim at one or more of those birds up there in time of great need.  HF radio can still manage if the birds can't fly.
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RE: Navy marine Corp Mars ends September 30 2015
« Reply #111 on: August 27, 2015, 04:13:11 PM »

My question is what is the need for MARS? Seems like the armed forces communication systems are so advanced today there is no need for an amateur reserve for any reason. Gee, even had a friend in the Marines call the house from a sat phone to talk to us from a ship who knows where.

Manual traffic handling in MARS is just pointless in my opinion. Seems like the entire MARS program should be shut down for all branches.

BTW, I was a previous MARS member many years ago.
Better add ARES, and RACES as well...  :)
I guess one might say that our friends, the Chinese, might someday take aim at one or more of those birds up there in time of great need.  HF radio can still manage if the birds can't fly.
I said that somewhat tongue-n-cheek  ...
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RE: Navy marine Corp Mars ends September 30 2015
« Reply #112 on: September 14, 2015, 08:01:30 AM »

Anyone heard any news RE: Served Agency call signs?
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RE: Navy marine Corp Mars ends September 30 2015
« Reply #113 on: September 14, 2015, 08:43:55 AM »

Anyone heard any news RE: Served Agency call signs?

Agencies supported by Navy Marine Corps MARS should contact the DHS SHARES program office who will determine if they will continue providing contingency HF support or if the agency should seek support through other means. 

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Paul
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RE: Navy marine Corp Mars ends September 30 2015
« Reply #114 on: September 29, 2015, 05:02:19 PM »

SINCE 1962, THOUSANDS OF NMCM MEMBERS HAVE PROUDLY PROVIDED
MORAL AND WELFARE SUPPORT TO THE NAVY, MARINE CORPS AND COAST
GUARD  AS WELL AS CONTINGENCY COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT TO THE NAVY
AND CIVIL AUTHORITIES. THROUGHOUT ITS 53 YEAR HISTORY, NMCM
MEMBERS PROUDLY SERVED THE NAVY AND EMBODIED THE NAVY'S SPIRIT AND
TRADITIONS THROUGH THEIR VOLUNTEER SERVICE.

ARMY MARS EXPRESSES OUR SINCERE THANKS TO THE NMCM MEMBERS
FOR THEIR DEDICATION TO THE MARS PROGRAM.  TO THE NMCM MEMBERS
WHO HAVE CHOSEN TO TRANSFER TO EITHER AIR FORCE OR ARMY MARS,
I THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED DEDICATION TO SUPPORT THE
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE THROUGH THE MARS PROGRAM.

SIGNED
STEPHEN G. KLINEFELTER
CHIEF, ARMY MARS
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RE: Navy marine Corp Mars ends September 30 2015
« Reply #115 on: September 29, 2015, 05:51:49 PM »

Take care fellow Navy MARS members, it was fun, thank you all for helping me enjoy Navy MARS!  On to Air Force MARS now...  Good bye Navy MARS...
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RE: Navy marine Corp Mars ends September 30 2015
« Reply #116 on: September 30, 2015, 07:56:47 PM »

'Twould seem there was no last-minute reprieve.
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KA1VF

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RE: Navy marine Corp Mars ends September 30 2015
« Reply #117 on: October 01, 2015, 07:57:50 AM »

   Folks, if any of you get nostalgic for the Navy way of life,
 I respectfully refer you to the following website.

            http://goatlocker.org/cponavy.htm

 
                   73, and take care

                        Bob

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RE: Navy marine Corp Mars ends September 30 2015
« Reply #118 on: October 03, 2015, 09:39:09 AM »

All Hands --

This is a copy of an email I sent out to my Bluehawk squadron mates after 7H1B closed down at 2359Z 30 SEP 2015, the last NAVMARCORMARS traffic net in the state of Missouri and perhaps in the entire NAVMARCORMAR organization:

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Today is the last day of operation of Navy-Marine Corps MARS. MARS is an acronym for Military Auxiliary Radio System. For years MARS stations in war zones and forward deployment areas allowed service men and women to make a phone patch back the states to talk to friends and family. When emails and cell phones became ubiquitous, the health and welfare roles of MARS died.

Tonight, the NAVMARCORMARS Director for the State of Missouri controlled the net for the last time. Mike is a retired E-9 Master Chief submariner, and he closed the net with a sentimental recitation of the litany heard on the 1MC (ship's announcing system) when a ship comes into port and ties up to a pier and secures (shuts down) all of the systems. He could not get through it without stopping to regain his self-control.

It was my last time to use my Navy MARS call NNNØAKI. As Mike put it, "Eight sideboys to the quarterdeck. Ring the ship's bell eight times (in doublets), NAVMARCORMARS departing.”

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I am now a member of AFMARS. I chose the bluesuiter branch of MARS because they fly single seat jets albeit newer aircraft than the Douglas A-4E Skyhawks I flew in Vietnam with the VA-72 Bluehawks.
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