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Got it. A squelch and click are the same. Situation negative means OK.

Commented: Sunday, September 24th, 2017 @ 5:59 pm By: Ted McDonald

Sometimes the forest is not visible for the trees. I have re-read the post several times and don't see my error. Military language often puts the adjective after the noun (SITUATION REPORT, NEGATIVE)to prevent confusion (except for civilians) Radio transmissions are designed to be minimalist transmissions. I may be missing my error in the post. Help me out.

The query "Bravo 2-4 to LP4 if SIT-REP is negative break squelch twice." Is used to ask the question "If you are in no danger (negative danger) and everything is okay break squelch (click) twice."

Most often it was reduced to just "SIT-REP NEGATIVE?" as an implied question asking for a two click response if everything was okay.

In extreme circumstances where any excess noise was really dangerous, the whole exchange was reduced to 'CP one click (squelch) to LP, LP two squelch (click) back if negative enemy contact'. Click and break squelch are both the same. The sending unit is a click on microphone the receiving end hears a static squelch on their end.

One Click followed by answer Click, Click indicates that nothing is wrong. It was recreated in the movie Longest Day with the clickers used during D Day. Urban legend also says it was used by Paul Revere in the Revolutionary war. One if by land two if by sea. The confusion was illustrated by Abbott and Costello in the "Who's on first" routine. The use of code words has always been a bit disjointed when the other side does not know the lingo. Kinda of like Snowflake or Nazi is used in today's jungle.

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If something is wrong, there is no clicking just a loud voice transmission. "Oh sh!t we are under attack!"

Commented: Sunday, September 24th, 2017 @ 11:58 am By: Bobby Tony

Well, of course.

The Email debacle broke so many laws, and broke many more to it cover up, I believe that it will be the next Watergate, and many in the insipid Democrat Media know it too, but dare not admit it.

After all of her bad behavior post election, Trump and other Conservatives will not let her off the hook, not now. This cannot continue: Two sets of laws for all Americans.

Commented: Thursday, September 21st, 2017 @ 12:02 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Interesting. So, the time to deal with a compliant Ho was in the late 40s, early 50s, and the Deep State screwed us again.

I watch Clapper and Comey and Brennan, and I see their web of exposed lies, and I can not fathom how the Liberals /Socialists are still rallying around them as if they are the last holdovers of those "great Obama years".

Even I am stuck on stupid, or they are. There is no inbetween.

Commented: Thursday, September 21st, 2017 @ 11:36 am By: Stan Deatherage

I swear B.T. You are so true about the "rules were quite clear back then".

Do you remember that being a real man meant something? It meant that you were on the team, part of the tribe; a tribe of patriots-in-training.

The opacity of the Deep State that I refer to is that we could have had Ho Chi Minh eating out of our hand. Ho loved America, and was our staunch ally in WWII.

The Deep State kept cables from Ho to President Truman secret from the President. They probably did that because they knew that they could not control him.

What if Ho, who was a national hero in 1946, became our natural ally again. All America would have had to have done was ease France out of Viet Nam.

FUBAR.

Commented: Thursday, September 21st, 2017 @ 10:47 am By: Stan Deatherage

B.T., I have watched the first two installments of Ken Burn's Vietnam War documentary, and your detail oriented first hand account of this FUBAR period of American /World history segues beautifully with the knowledge that I am gaining courtesy of Burns / B.T.

Thanks again.

On a side note, the Deep State existed in the early 50s, as it does know against Mr. Trump.

If the Deep State of the OSS /CIA had been a bit more transparent with President Truman, there may not have been a Vietnam War. I fully appreciate the CIA for the great work they do to keep us safe, but, I also cringe everytime I hear some Liberal /Socialist expouse how they are beyond reproach, and there is no Deep State in today's America.

When Socialists start aligning with the Deep State, we should all be very watchful; or, an Orwellian future lays not to far in the distance.

Commented: Thursday, September 21st, 2017 @ 9:37 am By: Stan Deatherage