First-hand accounts from sailors, radio operators and NARS members of the moments when communications made the difference.
Every radio operator has a story about the day the network went down, the call nobody else could trace, or the moment everyone said, “Go find the radio guy.” Here are ours.
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2002 deployment ยท USS Denver (LPD-9)
A Machinery Repairman with a ham radio license becomes the ship’s go-to radio expert: programming handhelds, loading encryption keys, tracking down a phantom distress call, and exposing a hoax mayday from a bar in Oak Harbor.
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