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Originally posted by eyes
Another thought: USASOC could come up with a 1 week course similar in to the conventional "Combat Commo" course and call it "Special Operations Commo". The cadre would be BTDT 18E types, making it similar to the MACV Recondo school do to the fact that their would be BTDT SF types giving a very extensive crash course to a bunch of high peed / hard chargen LRS types. (and whom ever else USASOC and/or SOCOM deemed worthy to attend...)
Whom better to share this knowledge with and whom better to teach it...
This is sort of done with the modern day Recondo school [RSLC] that 4th RTB runs but I think a more condensed version completely focused on commo would be a huge asset to not only commo guys and RTO's in a LRSU but the like in the 75th, 160th, SOT-A's… The information is decimnated basically OJT / word-o-mouth now but I still think a formal course would be a huge step in a positive direction.
Thoughts?
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This is done to an extent, it is the Special Operations Communications Systems Operators Course. SOCSOC is actually the old SF Base Station Commo course. There is a maintenance course as well, SOCSMC.
Before you get too exited, the above covers SF specific commo and I'd venture a very educated guess that LRS doesn't have the gear taught in SOCSOC. SATCOM maybe, but HF? No way.
Maybe your training NCO could swing something with a SF company so they could practice their UW/ FID skills? Problem is, your unit would probably pick up the tab for it so that may stop that notion altogether.
I'll get with you offline about this later this week if you'd like. Comparing your commo requirements with that of USASOC units shouldn't be done via the internet.