SP5 Michael Rathbun 486924 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />In Germany, I once found myself identifying as "Heavy Disk Delta One Alpha Yankee".<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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. 2015-02-19T23:44:49-05:00 SP5 Michael Rathbun 486924

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />In Germany, I once found myself identifying as "Heavy Disk Delta One Alpha Yankee".<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.

2015-02-19T23:44:49-05:00 2015-02-19T23:44:49-05:00 1SG Private RallyPoint Member 486994

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Back in the day, I was dubbed "Slippery Chicken 6-Delta".<br />A long embarrassing story goes along with that moniker, but I still use it for online HALO and COD brawls.

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