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"Chip" is More Known to Close Friends and Family. My Chop as a Naval Communicator is Probably More Widely Known. "KC" "Casey"
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RIP CTMC Gustafson! Old Spooks Done Die! We Just Smell that Way Naturally!
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PO1 Brian Austin Narrowband SATCOM is critically important to the warfighter, as the UHF spectrum can operate in both urban and jungle environments, through all weather, to support smaller, low-power ...
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Perspective is an Amazing Thing, RM1 Dan "Squidly" Communications Watch Supervisor, Diego Garcia, CTO1 Brian Sudis Tech Control Chief, Adak, AK, CTO1 Wm "Chip" Nagel Operations Watch Chief for Intelli...
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For Every "Saint" There is a "Demon" I Always Pray You Meet "Squidly" You Don't need to Meet "Chip" My Partner on Adak and Dodge. He's a Good Guy! Me Not So Much! He was Communications Watch Officer o...
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Okay, you old timers, Who recognized this "Misappropriated" KWT-26 relay reset device?? "I'll Send You a BI" LOL!
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Talk About a Dead Giveaway your dealing with an Ex O-Brancher or Radioman. Butterflying Measuring Tape!
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If you can Take Down these Grandfathers, Ancient Bastards of the Information Age? I'm All For It! These Old Bastards Need to be Retired! Networks, Computers, Telecommunications? Go For It!
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Define "Old School" Yeah I Had to Type 30 WPM on a Mod 28 and read 50 Characters Per Minute. Had to Type 35 to Make CTO1, I Typed 39 WPM at that Point after typing Crap Loads of Russian Phonetic!
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For Every Bright Side there is a Dark Side, RM1 CWS Communications Watch Supervisor Diego Garcia, Tech Controller, NSGA Adak, AK. My Partner. CTO1 "Chip" Nagel Operations Watch Chief for Intelligence ...
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For Every Saint there is a Demon, RM1 Dan "Squidly" McCabe and I Go back a Long Time, He is the Proverbial Saint! Me Never So Much! In My World, you best Align with Squidly or Chip will Show you the e...
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WWII Ends

 

On May 8, 1945, World War II in Europe came to an end and orders were requested for the third group of HFDF operations to be assigned to Jan Mayen Island. They were:

 

RM1 Joseph A. Miller
RM2 Melvin P. Bray
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"I Can See Russia from My Backyard" Please? Unless You've been to Shemya. Closer than these 3. Computers, Telecommunications, Internet? MILNET/ARPANET? We'd Rather You Just Say "Thank You". Nice Grand...
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Some Very Old Spook Communicators, CTO1 Chip Nagel OWC Diego Garcia and Classic Wizard Operator Adak, RM1 Squidly McCabe Tech Controller Adak, AK and CWS Diego Garcia and CTO1 Brian Sudis Tech Control...
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One of the aircraft carriers Involved in the Battle of Midway was the USS Yorktown. Serving onboard the Yorktown was a radio intercept unit comprising of a Japanese Language Officer, LCDR Ransom Fulle...
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"Want to Go High and Blind?" Yeah I've Burned a Few Cards in this Bad Boy.
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Did you know Captain Jack S. Holtwick, Jr., USN is credited with establishing the Communication Technician (CT) rating for the U.S. Navy in 1948?
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On this day 40 years ago, terrorists attacked unarmed sailors en route to a day watch at Naval Security Group Activity (NSGA) Sabana Seca.
CTO1 John Ball, the Communications Supervisor the driver the N...
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There is No Such Thing as Enough RF Equipment! Yeah I'm a Naval Communicator!
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Remembering On-the-Roof Gang member Daryl Wigle, whose birthday it is today. Wigle was born on 25 November 1899 in Prineville Oregon and enlisted in the Navy as a Radioman. He attended OTRG Class #3...
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Who Says Halloween is Only for Children? Papa RM1 Daniel "Squidly" McCabe Having Fun.
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If You Know What this is You're a Second Generation Voice COMSEC Operator. I'm both 1st Generation Voice COMSEC and 2nd Generation COMSEC Operator.
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Old School Telecommunications, Don't Touch the Tip on an Audio Level Patch Pannel. That Can Hurt.
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I'm Old Tired and Brainfarting, Hard to Believe I used to be Able to Readily Read this Baudot Code.
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Meet the Sailors of On-the-Roof Class #17, which ran from January - May 1936. Chief Radioman Walter “Sandy” McGregor, graduate of Class #7, was the instructor. The students were:

 

RM3c Kenneth E. Carmichael
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Hats off to Sam Morse, inventor of Morse Code. This one's for all you Skivvy Wavers, CG QuarterGaskets, RadioMates and any other CW Operators out there!

 

PS: Best "Flashing Light" Morse Code reader I e...
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Radioman Second Class (RM2c) Walter Carl Rathsack, identified above, was selected for the tenth class of the On-The-Roof Gang training that began in March 1933.

 

Along with the other seven Radiomen in ...
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If You See Someone Stowing Things Like this. Good Chance it's a Naval Communicator, Radioman or Cryptologic Technician Communications. This is How We Stow Paper Tapes from a Teletype.
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As a Big Nosed German "Jew". I'm More than Happy to be Replaced. As an O-Brancher I'm More than Happy to be Replaced. As a Liberal Navy Spook, I'm More than Happy to be Replaced. Can You Replace Chip?...
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The U.S. Navy’s “On-The-Roof Gang” was a group of pioneering U.S. Navy and Marine radio operators trained to intercept Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) radio communications prior to World War II. Their t...
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NAVSECSTA, Naval Security Station, Washington, DC 3601 Nebraska Ave, Washington, DC.
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Your Cultural Lesson for Today. Mister is a Title in the Navy Reserved for Jr Navy Officers and Warrant Officers. I Am CTO1 Wm "Chip" Nagel USN(R) I Didn't Go to Knife and Fork School. Officers Call M...
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Yes This is the Beast that a Marine Gunnery Sgt Taught Me to Type On
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It Is With Heavy Heart that I Report the Passing of My Roommate from Dodge. RM1 Tony Minich. RIP Shipmate. Truly a Joyous Soul has Entered Heaven.
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George Ray Tweed (July 2, 1902 – January 16, 1989) was a decorated radioman in the United States Navy who served during the World War II. He is most famous for evading of Japanese capture for two year...
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"Anyone else want to CIP CIP CIP their kids on text msgs? I just used NFI and they were totally confused. Wait til I W81 them. Or wait a tic. Lol has nothin on us!" Cathy McShane (A Fellow CTO if I'm ...
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"Hey CTOSA can You go down to Radio Central and get a Bucket of BI's? CTO2 Needs them to Fire Up this KW-26".
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Just Took a Google Earth Stroll thru Washington, DC to see what Occupied what once was Naval Telecommunications and Naval Security Group HQ Now and it appears that is Now Homeland Security. Something ...
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Frederick Hubbard Gwynne, RM3

 

Last Rank
Petty Officer Third Class
Last Primary Designator/NEC
RM-0000-Radioman
Last Rating/NEC Group
Radioman
Primary Unit
1944-1948, RM-0000, USS Manville (PC-581)
Service Years
1944 - 1948

 

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The Sound of a Mod 28 Teletype. Music to an O-Branchers Ear
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Happy Veterans Day to My Fellow Naval Communicators. Those that Know the Song of the Mod 28 TTY!
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For my Fellow Old School O Branchers and Radioman. The sound that runs thru our Veins. The Sound of a Mod 28 TTY.
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Great Page for Us Old Crypto Operators. List of Equipment that we used to use "Way back When During the Great War".
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Navy Typists will enjoy the Pangram in this Video.
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A question for my Marine Brethren in the Radio Battalions, I damn near got a Hernia moving KW-7s with another Sailor one of us holding a handle moving them from CINCPACFLT to FICPAC. Are these things ...
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A big shout out to my Fellow Off-Line Encryption Operators. How many of you spent hours using this Beasty, KL-47 Adonis. Rubber Eraser and Air Gun were your best friend. Cleaning Rotors.
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