Word: missileman
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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Equally pressing was the need to hold skilled technicians in the Navy, and here, progress has its own price. Explains an enlisted missileman at Norfolk: "This new equipment is getting so complicated that the makers find a junction area and slap a little black box over it. No one but the civilian technical representative can monkey with this little black box. The Navy man loses contact with his equipment. He begins to think about getting out so he can become a tech rep and work with the little black box himself...