On January 25, when I announced a temporary pause in Station HYPO, I was completely unprepared for the overwhelming response that followed. Your heartfelt messages of gratitude and support were deeply moving and humbling.
While I always knew Station HYPO was reaching an increasing number of readers each year through growing engagement and clicks, I hadn’t fully grasped the depth of its impact. The blog has connected generations of cryptologists—from those who served briefly in the late 1950s, through Vietnam and the Cold War, to today’s active-duty enlisted personnel and officers who continue to share these stories across their divisions, departments, and commands. Knowing that these articles have resonated with so many of you, preserving our rich cryptologic history and strengthening our shared sense of purpose, is truly inspiring. I am deeply grateful for your continued readership, encouragement, and unwavering support.
Today, I am pleased to share that Commander Chuck Hall (Ret.), whose vision and leadership brought Station HYPO to life in 2015, will continue the blog’s mission. His passion and dedication to celebrate the past, present, and future of Navy Cryptology and honoring those who have served make him the perfect steward to carry this effort forward. When the time is right, I look forward to rejoining Chuck in contributing to Station HYPO and continuing to share these important stories with you.
Additionally, I understand that some of you are concerned about accessing the hundreds of articles previously posted. Rest assured, I will restore them when the time is right. In the meantime, if you need any cryptologic history documents or specific articles, please feel free to reach out to me at mario.vulcano62@gmail.com, and I will gladly send them directly to you.
Thank you again for your loyalty, enthusiasm, and support. Station HYPO remains a community dedicated to honoring our past, celebrating our present, and inspiring the future of cryptologic excellence.
Sincerely,
Mario Vulcano
Station HYPO 
30 January 2025 at 12:25
Thank you my friend Mario, you let the cat out of the bag on me and I got well rewarded by people in my family, close friends and associated members of the Red Cross. Im sure everyone else whose lives you touched definitly feels the same way, fair winds and following seas on your next adventure….Dick Sutton Mat shop 511
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30 January 2025 at 12:45
Woho! Appreciate all you do Mario!!
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30 January 2025 at 13:52
Thank you for always honoring and remembering my son, Steven. Your kindness will forever touch my heart.
~Lydia
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30 January 2025 at 14:17
Yep, here’s an old guy from the beginning that experiences great memories flooding back when looking through your postings and find It’s amazing that sometimes all of a sudden I want to say outloud, “I’ve done that!” Thank You
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30 January 2025 at 14:33
Thank you, Mario! Great news!
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30 January 2025 at 14:44
Mario,
Great news. I have enjoyed and learned a lot from reading Station HYPO. I am happy to hear that it will be continuing. Hope to see you back again in the future. Thank you for all you’ve done.
Kerry Sandstrom
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30 January 2025 at 15:18
BRAVO ZULU
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30 January 2025 at 15:24
Best news I’ve had since was I able to copy ditties at 45WPM and carry on a conversation with my buddy next to me.
“Sam” Sansom
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30 January 2025 at 19:27
As a survivor of the tragic Kamiseya fire of 1965, this is the only place I’ve found information and respectful commentary. Very happy the site will continue and grateful for your efforts. I also would like to know how to go about posting an article describing my escape and personal experiences resulting from the tragedy. Would love to be in touch with others who were there in September 1965. Thank you again! — Jack Jones, CT2, USN, 1962-1967. Email: jackjones@frontiernet.net
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31 January 2025 at 03:28
Jack,
While Mario/Chuck will undoubtedly respond to your request for information on article posting here on Station HYPO, another equally superb outlet which might be very interested in publishing your Kamiseya fire remembrances is the U.S. Navy Cryptologic Veterans Association (https://usnvca.org/). The NCVA publishes a quarterly magazine periodical called the “CRYPTOLOG.” Go to the NCVA website, noted above, and select “About Us” to find the editor of the CRYPTOLOG to communicate your desires. I’m sure they would look forward to coordinating the publishing of your story.
Rusty Smith
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31 January 2025 at 13:41
We’d be more than happy to post your article, Jack! I will send you an email.
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Chuck
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30 January 2025 at 19:39
Thank you Mario for all you’ve put in to Hypo. Chuck, thank you for carrying the torch!
Kevin.Schneider
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31 January 2025 at 01:06
Thank you for all you have done, Mario! I look forward to carrying the torch!
v/r
Chuck
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31 January 2025 at 03:23
Thank you Mario, and Commander Hall.
I was a USAF and Reserve C-141A & B model Aircraft Loadmaster who served from 1977-1991. Just discovering this wonderful blog a few years back has rejuvenated my childhood obsession with everything Navy. I have also done a couple of short tours being a tour docent on the
USS/SS Red Oak Victory at the
Richmond, California shipyard.
Thank you for keeping it going
B Anthony A Khan
former TSgt USAFR
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31 January 2025 at 18:20
Awesome that it will continue, Mario. BRAVO ZULU to you for all the work you have done with this, and we look forward to it continuing. Thank you, Shipmate, and we hope you return real soon.
Jon Henke
CTTCM, USN(RET)
FORCM, NRSGC, 2003
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3 February 2025 at 16:39
Chuck can you do a post about the recently released DoDIG report substantiating misconduct while on active duty by Ann Casey, a person this site has honored?
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5 February 2025 at 21:22
I personally don’t think that falls into the vision of this blog.
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Chuck
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22 February 2025 at 21:09
I agree with chuck. Maybe if Navy Times would do a little journalism, we’d see something there. We don’t need to revel in it. They let Filipowski off the hook because he threatened to shoot himself if they went with the story, and it was a whopper.
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