By Charles B. Frank, Jr., CTRCS, USN Ret., N1IKO
My years of active duty included research, development, evaluation and computer education/projects (IT&T, Southwest Research Institute, NSA, NRL Washington, NRL San Diego, IBM, RCA and Burroughs Corp.). My career was varied and fun.
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SSGT Hugh M. Lynch, USMC
October 9, 1942 – April 15, 1969
Most school children learn all about the treasonable conduct of Benedict Arnold when he was in command of the American forces at West Point, but they probably don’t learn that practically all of his communications exchanges with Sir Henry Clinton, commander of the British forces in America, were in cipher or invisible inks. In his cipher messages, Arnold usually left a few words “en clair,” the ones he considered unimportant; for the important ones he used a dictionary as a codebook, indicating the page number, column number, and line number corresponding to the position in the dictionary of the plaintext word the code group represented. Arnold added seven to these numbers, which accounts for the fact that the first number in a code group was never less than eight or more than thirty-six.
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Navy SEALs (Sea, Air, Land) operating in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. From left to right: Sonar Technician (Surface) 2nd Class (SEAL) Matthew G. Axelson, 29, of Cupertino, Calif; Senior Chief Information Systems Technician (SEAL) Daniel R. Healy, 36, of Exeter, N.H.; Quartermaster 2nd Class (SEAL) James Suh, 28, of Deerfield Beach, Fla.; Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class (SEAL) Marcus Luttrell; Machinist’s Mate 2nd Class (SEAL) Eric S. Patton, 22, of Boulder City, Nev.; Lt. (SEAL) Michael P. Murphy, 29, of Patchogue, N.Y. With the exception of the lone survivor, Luttrell, all were killed 28 June 2005 by enemy forces while supporting Operation Redwing. (U.S. Navy Photo)
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Philippine fishermen have pulled up another unauthorized research or espionage drone within the country’s waters, the latest in a series of catches that have raised concerns about Chinese spying as tensions rise in the South China Sea.
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Seoul, South Korea —
A Japanese warship is on the way to the United States to be fitted with Tomahawk cruise missiles, the latest move by Washington and its Asian allies to beef up firepower as adversaries like China and North Korea expand theirs.
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