Remembering CWO4 Ralph T. Briggs, (Ret.), USN

Ralph T. Briggs, became interested in ham radio when he was a teenager, obtained a radio operator’s license in the early 1930s and joined a Navy communications reserve program.

Briggs entered the Navy in 1934 and went navy boot camp at Great Lakes Naval Training Center. In 1936 he was selected for the Navy’s Communication Intelligence Organization, formally known as Naval Security Group Command, now called Fleet Cyber Command/Commander Tenth Fleet. With over 44 years of combined Navy and Federal Service, he has performed strategic clandestine and overt intelligence and counterintelligence assignments in both domestic and overseas billets, ashore and afloat.