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Communication classifications

Ray BRay B Member Posts: 11,822
edited October 2012 in General Discussion
Back in the day, I was a field radio operator and we had four classes of traffic. It appears that they are the sme now, but in 1967 they were: Routine, Priority, Immediate, Flash. Flash was only to be used when we were in actual contact with the enemy. A flash message was immediately forwarded/taken up the CoC. Given that criteria, I suspect there weren't too many other Flash messages going into the DoD to clutter-up the message center.
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  • tccoxtccox Member Posts: 7,379 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    RayB, you forgot EMERGENCY (YY) messages. When I was in commo (only 30 years) that was top of the food chain.

    Remember the precut headder X CRITIC X CRITIC X CRITIC that opened all channel straight to DIRNSA (Director National Secrity Agency?

    Memory is a little hazy now but I believe we had about 60 second to get the message on the wire after the Critic message was received inst. Tom
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