"Mountain Mike^^" <rukidding@aol.com> wrote in message
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> "Dana" <raff242@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> Check out rural alaska, and some of its issues. Some villages do not have
>> good running water or sewer, hence it tends to be quite interesting.
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> Piece of cake. I was in Viet Nam for a few years. Don't kow about the
> cold, though.........
> Got helicopter? Can fly, too.

While I was not in Vietnam, I was in Iraq twice, once in 91, and also just
recently as a contractor. Lots of helicopter rides out to our microwave
repeater sites (quite a few of them). If you have a telecom background
telealaska, unicomm and a few other rural telcos are looking for help.
We tend to be innovative as we have to keep the old stuff running, and find
ways to provide service to small villages while at least breaking even, or
operating the service on the funds provided to provide service to rural
areas, and the accounting that goes along with government grants and loans.
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