Special Operations Specialties:

Communications

Army Special Forces (10th Group) and Navy SEAL commo.

Hot Links

Not one, but two from NavySEALs.Com!

Navy SEALs.Com COM SHACK

and

Operation Urgent Fury: Radio Free Grenada Transmitting Station

Web Sites

Wonder what commo gear a SEAL assault team carries? Click here.

CONDOR - program update

Unit signals special forces to world - Article on US Army 112 Signal Battalion

Some useful terms:

AN/PSC-2 - Small computer used to transmit data over FM radio
AN/VRC - Army-Navy/Vehicular Radio Communications
AN/VSC-2 - Radio-teletype set mounted on HMMWV
AUTODIN - Automatic Digital Network
AUTOVON - Automatic Voice Network
Bric - Commercially procured hand-held short-range radio
CECOM - U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command
COMSAT - Communications Satellite
DCA - Defense Communications Agency
DCS - Defense Communications System
DDN, Defense Data Network
DSCS - Defense Satellite Communications System,
DSN - Defense Switched Network
INMARSAT - International Maritime Satellite
MSE, Mobile Subscriber Equipment
N/PRC - Army-Navy/Portable Radio Communications
PSC-3 SATCOM - Satellite Communications Radio
SATCOM - Satellite Communications
SINCGARS - Single-channel Ground and Airborne Radio System
TACSAT - Tactical Satellite

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