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03-04-03, 08:09 AM
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Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:53:21 EST
Subject: MILINET: Rumor Alert
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4 March
MILINET: Rumor Alert
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This went to the person who sent the warning about NACEC to the Marine Mom who originally sent it to me yesterday - since then an AF Colonel in Pentagon has put out an Air Force wide message based on the original false rumor
I am not sure who you are, but you blindly passed on a message from David Chapman, 89th Army Reserve Support Command, Wichita, Kansas. I don't know if he originated this message or just also blindly passed it on. The message falsely accuses a Vietnam Era Army Signal Corps veteran Edward Addy who provided extensive volunteer radio communications services, a project he called Desert Voice, during Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm of practically being an Iraqi spy. The message was not researched at all - a quick look at the web site in question will quickly tell you a lot about Mr Addy and this can be confirmed by going to the newspaper articles on his archives page and also to the internet master file of non-profit organizations, GuideStar.org - Please, pass this on to all who you sent the original message to and back to whomever sent it to you. We want to do everything possible to restore Edward Addy and his organization's good name. They came through for veterans in 1990/91 and later in Bosnia and Kosovo, we need to offer them thanks, not derision.
Thank you.
Lt Col Roger W. Helbig, USAF Res (ret)
PS - always check out any message before you pass it on - many are hoaxes - this one has become widespread - so the retraction must also become widespread - always visit the web site in question yourself before passing on a virus warning or anything else that claims something is bad - here is the one for NACEC www.nacec.org - guidestar is www.guidestar.org (a great place to check before donating to anyone who claims they are a charity) finally www.snopes.com maintains a list of hoaxes, many of which circulate again and again.
Here is just one of the articles -
Saint Paul Pioneer Press
Thursday, November 12, 1998
METRO/REGIONAL BRIEFING
Minneapolis
Group to give Honduras communications aid: A Minneapolis-based radio group is sending four volunteers to Honduras to establish a temporary radio communications network for use in the Hurricane Mitch recovery effort.
The volunteers are from the North American Center For Emergency Communications. The two radio technicians and two translators plan to depart for Roatan, Honduras, on Nov. 20 to establish a network for hand-held radios that will improve communications between relief workers and their agencies to speed the movement of food, water and medical supplies.
With roads and bridges destroyed and no telephone or two-way radio infrastructure in place, field communications between relief organizations and relief workers takes hours instead of minutes, said Edward Addy, the group's director.
Equipment and supply costs for the two-month mission are estimated at $150,000 and donations are needed, he said.
The group, which was founded in 1992, supported relief operations in the Mississippi River Valley floods of 1993 and the Red River Valley floods of 1997. Its precursor also provided direct communications between frontline U.S. troops and their families during the Persian Gulf War.
To donate to the group, checks should be made payable to the NACEC Operations Fund and mailed to the NACEC Operations Fund, P.O. Box 23057, Minneapolis, Minn. 55423. Donations are tax deductible. Updated information on the project is available on the Internet at www.nacec.org/disaster/mitch.html.
Here is another earlier article from the archive
WORLDRADIO Magazine
December 1995
MARS Section By Lorraine S. Matthew
"The new Army MARS e-mail on-line services via the Internet through NACEC (North American Center for Emergency Communications, Inc.) and their MARS pages and the AOL (American Online) connections have reached hundreds of military families and friends who had previously had no means of contacting MARS stations for the sending of Morale messages. As more and more troops are deployed to hot spots throughout the world, it is important that they and their loved ones know how to connect with Army MARS services.
For contact through the Internet to NACEC, their web address is: http://www.winternet.com/~nacec/index.html At that point in your contact, there are a variety of pages available including Army MARS information and recruiting materials. Art work includes a fine MARS logo. The page that those wanting to send messages should access is "Military Family Services." At that location, the "Free Military Family Message Service area" is one of the options. It is here that the MARSgram message form is ready for the message sender to complete. At the press of a button, the message is transmitted to the NACEC Center and passed into the Army MARS Message Traffic System.
In addition to its morale message services, NACEC has also been granted an Army MARS call. The relationship between Army MARS and NACEC is a natural one. Looking at the reason for the existence of NACEC (Emergency Communications support) and the primary mission of Army MARS (Emergency Communications support), the close relationship is fully complementary to both entities."
Posted on Mar 4, 2003, 9:07 AM
from IP address 24.99.13.138
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:53:21 EST
Subject: MILINET: Rumor Alert
To:
4 March
MILINET: Rumor Alert
=========================
This went to the person who sent the warning about NACEC to the Marine Mom who originally sent it to me yesterday - since then an AF Colonel in Pentagon has put out an Air Force wide message based on the original false rumor
I am not sure who you are, but you blindly passed on a message from David Chapman, 89th Army Reserve Support Command, Wichita, Kansas. I don't know if he originated this message or just also blindly passed it on. The message falsely accuses a Vietnam Era Army Signal Corps veteran Edward Addy who provided extensive volunteer radio communications services, a project he called Desert Voice, during Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm of practically being an Iraqi spy. The message was not researched at all - a quick look at the web site in question will quickly tell you a lot about Mr Addy and this can be confirmed by going to the newspaper articles on his archives page and also to the internet master file of non-profit organizations, GuideStar.org - Please, pass this on to all who you sent the original message to and back to whomever sent it to you. We want to do everything possible to restore Edward Addy and his organization's good name. They came through for veterans in 1990/91 and later in Bosnia and Kosovo, we need to offer them thanks, not derision.
Thank you.
Lt Col Roger W. Helbig, USAF Res (ret)
PS - always check out any message before you pass it on - many are hoaxes - this one has become widespread - so the retraction must also become widespread - always visit the web site in question yourself before passing on a virus warning or anything else that claims something is bad - here is the one for NACEC www.nacec.org - guidestar is www.guidestar.org (a great place to check before donating to anyone who claims they are a charity) finally www.snopes.com maintains a list of hoaxes, many of which circulate again and again.
Here is just one of the articles -
Saint Paul Pioneer Press
Thursday, November 12, 1998
METRO/REGIONAL BRIEFING
Minneapolis
Group to give Honduras communications aid: A Minneapolis-based radio group is sending four volunteers to Honduras to establish a temporary radio communications network for use in the Hurricane Mitch recovery effort.
The volunteers are from the North American Center For Emergency Communications. The two radio technicians and two translators plan to depart for Roatan, Honduras, on Nov. 20 to establish a network for hand-held radios that will improve communications between relief workers and their agencies to speed the movement of food, water and medical supplies.
With roads and bridges destroyed and no telephone or two-way radio infrastructure in place, field communications between relief organizations and relief workers takes hours instead of minutes, said Edward Addy, the group's director.
Equipment and supply costs for the two-month mission are estimated at $150,000 and donations are needed, he said.
The group, which was founded in 1992, supported relief operations in the Mississippi River Valley floods of 1993 and the Red River Valley floods of 1997. Its precursor also provided direct communications between frontline U.S. troops and their families during the Persian Gulf War.
To donate to the group, checks should be made payable to the NACEC Operations Fund and mailed to the NACEC Operations Fund, P.O. Box 23057, Minneapolis, Minn. 55423. Donations are tax deductible. Updated information on the project is available on the Internet at www.nacec.org/disaster/mitch.html.
Here is another earlier article from the archive
WORLDRADIO Magazine
December 1995
MARS Section By Lorraine S. Matthew
"The new Army MARS e-mail on-line services via the Internet through NACEC (North American Center for Emergency Communications, Inc.) and their MARS pages and the AOL (American Online) connections have reached hundreds of military families and friends who had previously had no means of contacting MARS stations for the sending of Morale messages. As more and more troops are deployed to hot spots throughout the world, it is important that they and their loved ones know how to connect with Army MARS services.
For contact through the Internet to NACEC, their web address is: http://www.winternet.com/~nacec/index.html At that point in your contact, there are a variety of pages available including Army MARS information and recruiting materials. Art work includes a fine MARS logo. The page that those wanting to send messages should access is "Military Family Services." At that location, the "Free Military Family Message Service area" is one of the options. It is here that the MARSgram message form is ready for the message sender to complete. At the press of a button, the message is transmitted to the NACEC Center and passed into the Army MARS Message Traffic System.
In addition to its morale message services, NACEC has also been granted an Army MARS call. The relationship between Army MARS and NACEC is a natural one. Looking at the reason for the existence of NACEC (Emergency Communications support) and the primary mission of Army MARS (Emergency Communications support), the close relationship is fully complementary to both entities."
Posted on Mar 4, 2003, 9:07 AM
from IP address 24.99.13.138