Radio Operator
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Radio Operator
They disbanded the anti-aircraft battalion and they sent all,
everybody back to a holding unit. And then we were there for
maybe a month or something and took some training from,
artillery training, infantry training and then we were all sent
out, made a complete infantry battalion out of the two batteries
from the artillery regiment. I was a radio operator.
So the only thing from infantry to an artillery regiment or back
to an infantry you adjust your procedure on the air that's all
that’s different. But the radios and everything are all the same.
At that time, we had small sets and we had big sets,
the kind that you carried on your back.
And most of the time that we were in headquarters company
whenever we’re not in action and then everybody went back the
drivers and the signallers and the tradesmen went back to the
headquarters company. I was with a Sig Platoon there, and
whenever they went into action, getting ready for action then
they shipped them out, you could have been with, in a matter
of about a month you could have been with maybe two or three
different companies and most of the time I just worked with
the battery commander, I mean the battery commander, there I
go talking artillery again, with the company commander.
And also sometimes they’d send you out to maybe one of the
platoons and work with the platoon commander so you’d carry a
smaller set, like a walkie-talkie. It would be the same
principal there. You’re just calling ahead. So you always had
to stick with them all the time, we had to have that radio
right beside him when you were in action. It was a little weird
sometimes you know because if you start getting shelled on,
you’re hitting the ground one way and you’ve got your commander
that side, you’ve got to crawl over to him to be beside him.
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