Comments on: The Army’s Electronic Magic Shop (Apr, 1960) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/07/the-armys-electronic-magic-shop/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Firebrand38 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/07/the-armys-electronic-magic-shop/comment-page-1/#comment-1079014 Firebrand38 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:22:46 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/07/the-armys-electronic-magic-shop/#comment-1079014 Charles Cole: For starters the guidon of the 73rd Signal Company may be found here http://www.inscom.army.mil/Organization/museum/main11.aspx with some details of what happened to it. Charles Cole: For starters the guidon of the 73rd Signal Company may be found here http://www.inscom.army.mil/Org.....ain11.aspx with some details of what happened to it.

]]> By: Charles Cole http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/07/the-armys-electronic-magic-shop/comment-page-1/#comment-1079010 Charles Cole Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:08:54 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/07/the-armys-electronic-magic-shop/#comment-1079010 I read the above with interest as I remember when I was stationed at Fort Huachuca 1960/1962 that we heard then that equipment that we had to guard and required a secret clearance had been published in Popular Mechanics. I have tried without success to find out something about the 68th and 73rd Signal Companies of the 72nd Sig Battalion but even visiting the post a few years ago, I couldn't find anything about them. Does anyone know what happened to these two company designations? I remember Sgt Bowser, Sgt White, Capt Whiting, Lt Core, Lt Milo as well as Spec. Prokopf, Moorman, Mika, O'Sullivan, does anyone know anything of any of them. Also, last commanding officer was Capt Silva. I read the above with interest as I remember when I was stationed at Fort Huachuca 1960/1962 that we heard then that equipment that we had to guard and required a secret clearance had been published in Popular Mechanics. I have tried without success to find out something about the 68th and 73rd Signal Companies of the 72nd Sig Battalion but even visiting the post a few years ago, I couldn’t find anything about them. Does anyone know what happened to these two company designations? I remember Sgt Bowser, Sgt White, Capt Whiting, Lt Core, Lt Milo as well as Spec. Prokopf, Moorman, Mika, O’Sullivan, does anyone know anything of any of them. Also, last commanding officer was Capt Silva.

]]> By: Richard L. McDanel http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/07/the-armys-electronic-magic-shop/comment-page-1/#comment-1058339 Richard L. McDanel Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:33:47 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/07/the-armys-electronic-magic-shop/#comment-1058339 A blast from the past! I served in the US Army from 1959 to 1982. During my early assignments, my associated unit, the 72nd Signal Battalion, Combat Electronic Warfare (Corps)provided the soldier support to the Electronic Proving Ground along with a separate Electronic Warfare Support Company. I was station at Fort Huachuca from 1960 - 1962 and from 1963 - 1964 when the 72nd was deactivated (September 1964) as the Signal Corps turned over the Electronic Warfare mission to the US Army Security Agency (ASA). I was an operator and later a Team Chief of a Multipurpose Jamming Section; a Variable Time Fuze Section (the Jeep with the folding antenna is a VT Fuze Jammer) and an Airborne Jamming Platform mounted in a U-1A De Havilland Otter aircraft. A blast from the past!

I served in the US Army from 1959 to 1982. During my early assignments, my associated unit, the 72nd Signal Battalion, Combat Electronic Warfare (Corps)provided the soldier support to the Electronic Proving Ground along with a separate Electronic Warfare Support Company.

I was station at Fort Huachuca from 1960 – 1962 and from 1963 – 1964 when the 72nd was deactivated (September 1964) as the Signal Corps turned over the Electronic Warfare mission to the US Army Security Agency (ASA). I was an operator and later a Team Chief of a Multipurpose Jamming Section; a Variable Time Fuze Section (the Jeep with the folding antenna is a VT Fuze Jammer) and an Airborne Jamming Platform mounted in a U-1A De Havilland Otter aircraft.

]]> By: Stannous http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/07/the-armys-electronic-magic-shop/comment-page-1/#comment-998642 Stannous Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:37:29 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/07/the-armys-electronic-magic-shop/#comment-998642 Most of the stuff here is in use today though in a much different form than they expected. It looks like a proto-DARPA. Most of the stuff here is in use today though in a much different form than they expected.

It looks like a proto-DARPA.

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