/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1896985
I was the 2821Marine Corps, I didn't do three years microman in Delmar or anything but I can tell you that changing anything in the military is not just changing the part out. it's changing the technical manuals, it's changing the training, it's changing the schools, it's money money money. By the time you get through the approval process on most things it's obsolete. That's just a general answer. Also the text of today are not the text of yesteryear. Before a lot of the cards were troubleshot in-house by the Marine corps or sometimes the army. Most stuff now is under warranty and it goes to General Dynamics or Harris etc. At least the calm gear is concerned, everything now is IP base and "blackcore" routed and tunnelled, (SIPR/NIPR/POTS phonesVOIP/VOSIP/). It's all encrypted with an SKL, no more punch tape. All these things came online very fast, it's all an integrated system. Point being that if one component goes out some 19-year-old tech is not going to be able to walk the dog on the circuit board on a $12,000 piece of crypto or $35,000 card. Let alone have the precision equipment to do on the spot repair. Now there are just backups for everything. Someone saltier than me can come out here and tell me how it's always been the same but that's just my experience from 2008 to 2015 during the transition from multiplexing to data/IP. additionally you can get trained in the schoolhouse get out to your unit and be doing completely different job then go to another unit and things have changed your training is antiquated or you forgot and you look like shit. 17 months in training with boot camp and electronic school in twentynine palms, pretty soon your 4 years is up and you didn't do shit. Easier just to buy two and send one in for warranty. lastly some people pick the job and they just suck at it. It wasn't they thought it was going to be. You think it's going to be OPs pic+pussy but you spend your enlistment sweeping and getting yelled at. Now I'm ranting.