U.S. Flew Over Two Spy Planes a Day in South China Sea Throughout April - Fry Electronics

PO1 Brian Austin In My "Service Jacket" it is "Noted" that I was a "Secondary Volunteer" for the Airborne Spook Program. Be careful what You say to the SEA for DIRNSGPAC! that SOB will Take You at Your Word! Thankfully they already had Plenty of "Primary" Types. I'll Pass on SERE.

PO1 Brian Austin If You worked for Me I Made Damn Sure that You were talented in HF Comms to Support Airborne Spooks. I Never Hesitated when It Came Time to Be their Ground Station. Afloat or on Shore on Adak. I loved the Challenge of an HF Term.

Yeah, i was big on HF as well. That was my litmus test for my "young'uns". Talk smack about how operating TACINTEL was so easy. Okay fine, now set up HF SITTY. Then I'd get that deer in the headlights look, "huh, wut?". LOL! Practice setting it up until you can do it in your sleep. Especially important in the Gulf/I.O. with the crazy propagation there.

You should have seen the propagation we got with our LORAN A signals in the Arctic. (I forget which channel we were on, but somewhere between 1700 and 1950KHZ.) Most of the time we were lucky if we could see the other stations, and that was banging out 1MW pulse from about 400 miles or so away.