How did the signal troops in Vietnam support the Vietnam War?

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.

What was the first satellite terminal in Vietnam?

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.

When did the strategic communications command take over Vietnam?

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.

When did the Signal Corps reach Vietnam?

The first of the additional Signal Corps troops to reach Vietnam was the advance party of Headquarters, 2d Signal Group, commanded by Colonel James J. Moran, which arrived from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in May 1965. Five companies of the 41st

When did automatic telephone exchanges start in Vietnam?

Earlier, in May of 1965, the Army Signal Corps planners in Vietnam and at US Army, Pacific, headquarters in Hawaii had realized that automatic dial telephone exchanges were needed immediately in South Vietnam.

When was a secure voice switchboard installed in Vietnam?

Installation of a secure voice switchboard was begun in Saigon on 22 September 1965 and the board became operational on 18 October when the first subscribers were tied in. By December 1965 this system, which consisted of seventeen subscribers in Vietnam, was completed.