On July 1, 1961, the U.S. Naval Communication Station, (NAVCOMMSTA) Iceland was established and assumed most of the island’s military communications requirements from the Airways and Air Communications Service Squadron (AACS/MATS). The NAVCOMMSTA’s responsibilities were wide-ranging with personnel assigned to operate communications equipment at a variety of remote sites: Inter-Island TROPO site at H-1; DYE-5 Transceiver site; transceiver sites at H-2 and H-3, the Special Communications
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AT1 Bernie J. Colgin was born on May 15, 1933 in Stillwater Oklahoma. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. G.L. “Buck” Golgin. There is cenotaph recognizing AT1 Colgin in Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego, CA in section MA Site 115.
Declared officially dead 18 days after he and his 30 crewmen were shot down by a North Korean Migs over the Sea of Japan.
AG1 Edward T. Earhart
May 14, 1975 – September 11, 2001
On May 13, 1961, the Army Security Agency’s (ASA) Third Radio Research Unit arrived in Saigon to provide support to the South Vietnamese military. Its location was the first of many conventional sites that US. cryptologists would establish in South Vietnam.
Captain Ivan Dunn, USN (ret) retired in 1998 after 31 years active duty. After his first tour as an Ensign Communications Officer at NAS Point Mugu, CA. (67-68), he volunteered for a special mission squadron, VQ-3 at NAS Agana, Guam. He served two years there flying as an Airborne Communications Officer in specially-configured C-130 aircraft designed to provide a survivable airborne component of Navy support to SSBNs (68-70).
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The President of the United States takes pride in presenting the DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL posthumously to CAPTAIN Joseph J. Rochefort, United States Navy, for services set forth in the following citation: For exceptionally meritorious service…while serving…as Officer in Charge of the Combat Intelligence Unit (Station HYPO) from March 1942 through June 1942.
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Station HYPO 