285.10 TV equipment repair. Went to school for electronics in 1960 and drafted in 1962 with basic at Ft. Gordon Ga. After basic assigned to the Television Devision at the Signal School at Gordon. Ft. Gordon is the Cyber school for our Military and some other countries Military now.

13F-Forward Observer

MOARNG 1986-92

I was a CT - Initially Communications Technician, later more accurately called a Cryptologic Technician. CT at the time contained 6 sub-ratings: TAMORI for Technical, Administrative, Maintenance, Operations, Collection (Ditty-chaser) and Interpretive (Linguist, like Otto).

I was M-branch aka a "Matman". Initial NEC was Crypto Repair for the KWR-37 and KG-14 both long since retired. Also gained OJT quals on Model 28 TTY, also a long-retired antique. Last technical school was for Outboard, a ship-based Signal Acquisition and Direction Finding system. I suspect that's also gone by the boards as it was developed in the late 70's.

Joined and started as 273X0 Combat Controller and retired as a 1N071 Operations Intelligence.

USN 75-79, CTO

US Army 13B40

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USMC 1986-1994

7509: Naval Aviator, AV8B Harriers

JUN 1991 - SEP 2008 USN Surface Warfare Officer

OCT 2008 - Current USN Foreign Area Officer (PACOM)

I hit 30 years next summer.

Enlisted in Army Security Agency a 4 year enlistment. Only guarantee was Agency if clearance came through.

MOS. 33D20. Intercept recording systems repair.

US Army

31V2P - Army Unit Level Communications Maintainer

18E - Special Forces Communications Sergeant

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Many of the posts in this thread would be interesting if they included the armed forces branch and an explanation of what something like “XYZ” referred to.

Mine, U.S. Army:
97D: military intelligence coordinator (E3 - E5)
97B: counterintelligence agent (E6 - E7)
351L: counterintelligence “technician” (warrant officer)
311A: Criminal Investigation Command (CID) special agent (warrant officer)

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
Many of the posts in this thread would be interesting if they included the armed forces branch and an explanation of what something like “XYZ” referred to.

You’re absolutely right, I’ll delete my previous post and update here.

CTI - Cryptologic Technician Interpretive (Linguist)
NEC - 9KOR (Korean Linguist)

Hoping by year 10 (6 now) I’m able to start the move to Warrant.

I really need to get to Maine again and buy Mr Paul a beer or some tractor parts or something

U.S Army
12B: Combat Engineer

13A (field artillery officer).

Army 1992-present

11B light infantry
11A IN officer
25A Signal officer

Still serving in the National Guard as an 11A

Army Security Agency 33F20 - Intercept Equip Repair 68-72

quote:

Originally posted by OttoSig:

You’re absolutely right, I’ll delete my previous post and update here.

CTI - Cryptologic Technician Interpretive (Linguist)
NEC - 9KOR (Korean Linguist)

Hoping by year 10 (6 now) I’m able to start the move to Warrant.

I really need to get to Maine again and buy Mr Paul a beer or some tractor parts or something

Any time, Shipmate! No need to bring gifts.

Misawa AB Japan was probably my most interesting tour. Two things stand out.

1) We had a "back room" within the "Back Room" that was all I-branch territory. I got escorted in there from time-to-time to work on tape recorders. There was a CTI1 there (I forget his name) that earned and wore ESWS (Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist), Air Crew and Submarine Service qualification devices on his uniform. Definitely a "Been There and Done That" kind of guy.

2) On my second tour there, I got sent TAD (Temporary Additional Duty) to Pyeongtaek RK to help the crew sort out some teletype issues. IIRC, the Army was the host command but we had a small contingent of CTs there as well. I was there a week or so and got taken to the cleaners in the barracks pub playing Ship/Captain/Crew - a dice game.

US Army; 13A then 51A.

USN 6-88 to 6-08

8345 - F-14A/B/D Structures & Hydraulics
8379 - H-46D Structures & Hydraulics
8378 - SH-60 Structures and Hydraulics
8332 - EA-6B Structures & Hydraulics
8342 - F-18A/B/C/D Structures & Hydraulics