I was draft exempt like the rest of us during the Vietnam era - I 
wished that there was something positive I could contribute to the 
country but that damned 4F classification just hung on.  Over fifty 
years ago it was pretty hard to get anyone to think outside of the 
box, especially our government.
I'd have been a damned good communications guy.
Pat, K9JAUAt 07:58 AM 6/5/2013, you wrote:
>Butch,
>
>Isn't it interesting how the Federal Government is the biggest discriminator
>to the disabled?  For example, wouldn't it be possible for some of us to
>have been radio operators in the military?  I repaired medical electronics
>in a hospital here for 20 years as a legally blind person.  Obviously, I
>must have been able to do the job or I wouldn't have been there for almost
>20 years. Why couldn't my abilities have been used by the military to repair
>military electronics behind the scenes, or some other non-combat job?
>
>It sucks!
>
>73
>
>Howard #3
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 7:32 AM
>Subject: Re: Challenges taking FCC exams
>
>
> >I went to electronics school in the 60s, 1968, I applied to the fccc to
> > take my second class license test and wanted to go to the first class
> > and was refused.  They refused to give me a waver to have the test read.
> >  I had my congressman go to the fcc and he finally got igh enough that
> > the guy said that is how it was and he didn't give a damn.
> > 73
> > Butch
> > WA0VJR
> > Node 3148
> > Wallace, ks.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 3 Jun
> > 2013, Harvey Heagy wrote:
> >
> >> This guy sounds like a real loser.  It is my understanding that the FCC
> >> at
> >> one time allowed us to take the first class license, but then changed
> >> their
> >> mind.  In the early 70's, there was a woman named Mary Jane Keener who
> >> lived
> >> in Iowa at the time who wanted to take it.  The NFB was trying to help
> >> her,
> >> and among other things pointed out that there were blind people who held
> >> the
> >> first class license for a long period of time.  When the FCC threatened
> >> to
> >> revoke all those outstanding first class licenses is when they filed suit
> >> and eventually won.  Of course that was in the days when the NFB was
> >> truly
> >> an advocacy organization before it attempted to redefine advocacy for its
> >> own purposes and began worshiping the federal goose that laid the golden
> >> egg.
> >> Harvey
> >>
> >>