So, how many here copy code?

MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca

https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_quarterly/maybe_you_had_to_be_there.pdf

OK 1LT Sandy Annala that is some heavy reading. VERY interesting!

Great Article.

not since high school math have I copied...lol...

We had a similar MOS of 05K (later reclassed as 98K), who were Signals ID/Collection. They trained at Pensacola with Navy.

Ahhhh Pensacola High. What a wonderful place. Went there for A School, Telecommunications Managers School and Tactical Intelligence School.

Knew a few people who went to Diego Garcia & Bad Aibling. I was in Berlin for fall if wall & Desert Storm. We were monitoring Russian withdrawal from Germany. Interesting times!

Was this us??? Probably not, but what the heck!!

Outstanding a "Blind Mans Bluff Man" I was the Off-Line Encryption Operator for CINCPACFLT for the Sub Broadcast. I think we have some Joint History there Chief!

I think the Chief is talking Morse Code and he is a Cryptologic Technician (R Branch) I am a Crytptologic Technician (O Branch).

Thanks PO1 William "Chip" Nagel! I was thinking computer code. But still how does one "copy" Morse code or is that a reference to scribing it?

When I was in, Copying Code meant "Scribling" Transcribing Morse Code. One of the Skills Necessary of a CTR. They would "Copy" it and then hand it off to an O-Brancher like to to send to CINCPACFLT, Washington, DC or wherever for further analysis. As an O-brancher I only had to be able to type 30 wpm to pass school and 35 wpm to make E-6 on a Mod 28 Electro Mechanical Teletype and Read Baudot Code off a Paper Tape at 50 Characters per minute but Thank God I didn't have to "Copy Code".