34th
Signal Battalion (Corps)
(Source: Steve Witt)
The inside of the AN/MSC-25 Operations Center used as the System
Control (SYSCON) element of the 34th Signal Bn (Corps) during an
exercise in the field. The MSC-25 was a big tractor trailer
shelter. This shelter was the Bn S-3 section's office in the field and
was where the status of all the battalion's communications were
tracked. This was during the time when the 34th installed a 'command'
communications system and all the multichannel radio shots were put in
from the Corps Main CP to the major subordinate command CPs. During
this time period, a telephone circuit was installed on the SB-22
switchboard in the MSC-25 to a TA-312 field telephone in the
multichannel terminal shelter (usually an AN/TRC-117) at the distant
end. That allowed the 34th's S-3 to listen to the quality (i.e. noise
on the circuit) of each multichannel system and directly talk to the
team chief of the TRC-117 (bypassing the chain of command in his
company).
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