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I would teach my Soldiers about the history and operation of it. Every unit I was in had one of these because of MILTOE requirements.
Cryptography
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Yes! Those things suck! The paper tapes were really thin and crappy. Every time you would try to feed the tape in, it would just crunch up on the feeder side. Once you got a wrinkle in that tape, good luck ever feeding it through the reader again. Talk about ancient technology...
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I used to pull tape through a KOI-18 and then have to burn the tape. Which sucks because that tape is waxy and does not burn for crap. This was in the early 2000s, so not that long ago.
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Heck yeah, that thing was a staple for us. Just had to pray you didn't wriggle the paper!
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A better question might be how many people that have used it actually wrote the date when they changed the battery.
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KOI and a KYK got me all types of letters and comms. Mainly because the OICs and SNCOs thought I was a magician whenever a radio or the 57 lost a fill. All praise crypto!
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Used this a long time ago in the Marines... This is the godfather of fill devices. The hard part was shredding all the paper tapes after lol. Personally, I miss the KYK-13< old reliable
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The KYK-13 is awesome. Whenever a Signal Soldier told me he or she only knew of the SKL and ANCD, it was pocket training time.
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I'll be honest, in all of my years in......I have never heard of nor seen this piece of equipment.
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Yes. I had the unfortunate duty of being the COMSEC and COMPUSEC NCO and had to fill/load, maintain, inventory and babysit the folks who didn't know how to do any of the above. PITA, but someone had to do it! LOL
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Being charged with maintaining COMSEC keys for a brigade didn't look exciting through the eyes of the few I knew.
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