If you suffer from geek allergies, now is your opportunity to move farther along the Internet Trail.
This post, however, will get us much closer to the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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The first wave of American troops in Vietnam would have gotten this from the quartermaster. I just got mine from eBay -- I was a little young to be sent to 'Nam in late 1964, being just 3½ years old at the time.
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A TIME CAPSULE complete with an instruction manual, a schematic and an eight transistor radio in a moisture-proof canvas pouch.
Moisture-proof is good for things being shipped to the jungle.
From what the Internet (and the eBay seller) tells me, this little GE model -- the P925 back in The World -- was the last of the military "morale radios," or "Personal Role Radio (PRR)" in Army speak. By 1964, after all, what young American didn't already have a transistor radio?
T.B. Player certainly did when he shipped out in '64.
This has been your Geek Minute on Revolution 21. We now return you to your modern, digitized programming.