Posted on Feb 19, 2015
RTOs: What was your weirdest call sign? (Do we still have RTOs?)
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I trust nobody recently has had to hump around with a Prick-25, and I imagine that tactical network identifiers may be different nowadays, when commo is theoretically encrypted. But, in the military, one never knows.
We had IDs that were, supposedly, difficult for opposing forces to pronounce, therefore making hostile intrusion into the net more difficult. They came up with some interesting ones.
In Germany, I once found myself identifying as "Heavy Disk Delta One Alpha Yankee".
In Viet-Nam, as the FNG and therefore automatically the new RTO for this particular Reaction Force squad, I gained 25 pounds and became "Reeling Spores Hotel Hotel Niner". Some of the Americans had trouble with that one.
Over and above this, what is the modern state of small unit tactical communication? Us antique specimens want to know, without asking anybody to Give Anything Away.
We had IDs that were, supposedly, difficult for opposing forces to pronounce, therefore making hostile intrusion into the net more difficult. They came up with some interesting ones.
In Germany, I once found myself identifying as "Heavy Disk Delta One Alpha Yankee".
In Viet-Nam, as the FNG and therefore automatically the new RTO for this particular Reaction Force squad, I gained 25 pounds and became "Reeling Spores Hotel Hotel Niner". Some of the Americans had trouble with that one.
Over and above this, what is the modern state of small unit tactical communication? Us antique specimens want to know, without asking anybody to Give Anything Away.
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