The C42s were gone from the regular army in the early to mid 70s. They remained in use with the militia until 1980. I know this date because the last job I did in the reserves was to carefully wrap up all the pieces and cables and turn them back to supply. We spent weeks preparing all the kit for turn in, and I remember the old civilian at supply joking with us that we wasted out time over-preparing the stuff cause at best it would end up as foreign aid in some third world country. I remember him saying something like: See that cable there? Some coffee farmer will be leading his donkey with it.
I went to Borden with the regular force the next week, and when I got home 6 months later, sure enough, there were all the cables, condition tags still hanging off them, laying in the mud at the mil scrapyard.
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