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KUWAIT - Lt. Col. J. D. Calidonna, signal officer, 34th Division, deployed to Italy in World War II is quoted as saying, "Messengers have to be good to do their job properly. They have to use a great deal of initiative and common sense in locating units to which they must deliver messages. Because they work alone and have to cover much territory, sometimes in forward areas, they have to exercise enough intelligence to keep from being killed or captured. In addition to all this, messengers must be able to report intelligently on what they have seen while making their runs."
The Signal Corp today has vastly evolved from its role in WWII. From hand delivering messages to reporting on enemy locations, the Signal Corp played a vital role in communication and intelligence. Today, the Signal Corp, also known as “commo” short for communication, role is still vital to ensuring communication is maintained, but it’s not as physical as it was 60 years ago.
Exercising good judgment is still vital to the signalmen’s role, the large role in what the commo section does today is trouble shoot all communication problems ranging from phone, computer, radio; basically anything used to communicate.
The Army is able to use smaller units knowing they can use communication to call in for reinforcements.
On this deployment, Chief Warrant Officer Dale Wippler is the commo section officer-in-charge on Camp Army Life Support Area. He agrees while the method of delivering communication has changed, the reliance upon communication has not. “If we didn’t have the communication capabilities we have today, the mission would fail. We rely heavily on communication.”
As Sgt. 1st Class David Wright, communication section non-commissioned officer in-charge, likes to say “You can talk about us, but you can’t talk without us.” You can also hear him asking those filing help desk tickets for a commo issue, “Did you turn it off and on?”
| Date Taken: | 02.18.2012 |
| Date Posted: | 02.19.2012 02:24 |
| Story ID: | 84063 |
| Location: | KW |
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