Station HYPO

By Mr. Ronald Kukal

I am forever indebted to the US Navy for the training I received at Imperial Beach California in the 50’s, and at Goodfellow AFB during the early 60’s.   That training made a man of me, and believe me I wasn’t that man when I came there.   A wide eyed young male, with no idea what was going to happen to me. 

By Mr. Ronald Kukal

Many of us in the Information Warfare and Cryptologic Warfare communities are familiar with the attack on the USS LIBERTY. On June 8 of last year, we marked 58 years since that tragic day. Across the fleet, commands took time to pause and remember. Some honored the occasion by recounting the timeline of events surrounding the attack; others read the names and showed the faces of the fallen, ringing a Navy bell for each life lost.

NGA puts a “template” on the products that “literally acknowledges … what you are looking at has not been touched by human hands,” said Director Frank Whitworth. “It’s important [for] combat commanders and the Secretary and the President that they have that knowledge.”

The Advent of U.S. Naval Cryptology

Although my part in the Battle of Midway was very small, I appreciate this opportunity to relate to you some of the more important achievements of my contemporary naval cryptologists that made the success of the Battle of Midway possible. As a current member of the Naval Security Group, you can take pride in the great accomplishments of your predecessors, not only related to the Battle of Midway but long before World War II as well as throughout World War II. There are not many naval cryptologic veterans alive today that were involved in providing the communications intelligence information that gave our inferior forces on land, sea and especially in the air the equalizer of knowing the composition of enemy forces, and when and where those huge Japanese forces would attack U.S. territory under Admiral Yamamoto’s grandiose invasion plan.