The Navy never let me be a whistleblower.
Even the Alarm company in 1972 Indianapolis
was a good addition to my resume after my boss told me,
"We are not putting Stearns in jail."
In 1978 INTeL, the sister ships of captured spy ship -- USS Pueblo -- were being upconverted from burn barrels and shredders to satellite communication. The Navy had a large backlog of orders for INTeL's memory chips to make all the new computers work.
There is an Admiral at Stanford that knows it was me that cleared the Navy's backorders of INTeL’s memory chips. That is why the Navy had me there.
Navy did not take care of its own in 1978 at INTeL.
To put the tennis ball back in their court, I became a Honeywell Biomedical Electronics Technician in 15 hospitals in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, Florida, so the Pentagon could not lie about my productivity.
There are no National Defense Secrets some paid-off Federal Judge can sign a nasty court order keeping a secret something that does not need to be a secret. Many nurses, doctors, hospital engineers, and electricians saw me perform electronic duties only a "Senior Electronics Technician" can perform.
I even saved one Hospital Engineer about a $10,000 consultation or re-work contract when the original electrical contractor for the new 20-bed Pediatrics Ward addition to an existing 120-bed hospital had electrical outlets that made my Honeywell tester's red warning light glow its brightest. The outlets in the hallway worked. So my tester was working as it should.
I took a scrap piece of paper. And I drew an electrical diagram that did the Hospital Engineer's job for him. His paycheck was at least 3 times the size of my paycheck. Ego boosts keep some geeks from asking for a pay raises. Ever try to pay for all that test equipment the government has to have on my bench for me to do my job correctly?
We good and productive electronics technicians get paid for goofing off in our hobby. Navy pilots knew it was me and the geeks in my shop on the hangar deck that told them how to find the carrier when they were running out of jet fuel.
My handwritten electrical diagram let his electricians properly wire in the 440-volt AC step down transformer in the new transformer vault -- saving that hospital months of not being able to use their new "PEDE Ward".
My electrical diagram allowed the
hospital's electricians to correct
the expensive contractor's mistake.
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"The impossible missions are the only ones
which succeed.” -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
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