MCPO Arne Simonsen

Navy | Cryptologic Technician Interpretive

Dates of Service: Jan 1964 - Sep 1987

RETIRED

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Jan 1983 - Sep 1987

NSA/CSS CTSRep

Independent Duty | Presidio of Monterey, CA

NSA/CSS Cryptologic Training System Representative to the Defense Language Institute/Foreign Language Center overseeing all foreign language training for government civilian and military personnel in 47 languages and dialects.

Jan 1980 - Dec 1982

Operations Chief

31 Division (Bowsprint) | NSGA Edzell, Scotland

31 Division (Bowsprint) Operations Chief providing Special Intelligence to National Commands and deployed Naval assets in the North Atlantic, Barents Sea, Baltic Sea and Europe. Overseeing four collection watch sections and Processing & Reporting assets in the largest division. In 1982, I lead a team of linguists, Morse Code Intercept operators and analysts aboard the USS Fairfax County on a mission in the Barents Sea off the Kola Peninsula. At the end of that mission, the Captain received a message from the Captain of NSGA Edzell that I had been selected for Senior Chief. My tour was cut short when NSA asked me to done civilian clothes and be their representative at the Defense Language Institute/Foreign Language Center on the Presidio of Monterey.