Chapter 9
One element of the 1st Signal Brigade, the communications control center with its communications status-reporting system used to control and manage communications passing
On Jan 14, 1962, a detachment of AFCS' 1st Mobile Communications Group installed a tactical air control system in South Vietnam. Also, the group installed voice and teletype services at Tan Son Nhut, Pleiku, DaNang, and Nha Trang.
As a result, on 1 December 1965 the Department of the Army placed the Strategic Communications Command's elements in Vietnam under the operational control of the Commanding General, US Army, Vietnam.
The signal troops already in Vietnam would have to improvise the needed support. Communications service into the system of Vietnam was provided by installing mobile radio relay links connected to the backbone system. Only limited telephone and message service could be made available.
FIRST SATELLITE TERMINAL, BA QUEO, NEAR SAIGON. This station linked Vietnam with Hawaii in first use of satellite communications in a combat zone. capacity to pass the required traffic from Nha Trang, where two other 72-channel systems from Pleiku and Qui Nhon converged for interconnections to the south.
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