Still had those suckers on my first deployment in '07. After they taught me how not to be a complete newbie, I had to wake up early once a week, fill my truck's radios, and do a commo check with BN. (which, ironically, was just down the hall). Lord, I hated everything to do with radios.
SKLs were a huge upgrade from the ANCD. Much easier, and far less susceptible to just randomly not working.
I also remember having to do a fill change in the early morning hours in Iraq, but thankfully that was while I was on the COP. Just had to wake up enough to go get the new fill, and put it on the radios.
--British veteran of the Ukraine War, discussing the FN SCAR H.It's f*****g great, putting holes in people, all the time, and it just puts 'em down mate, they drop like sacks of s**t when they go down with this.
You guys mentioning a "fill". Care to elaborate? Is it like a downloadable CEOI that has to be uploaded to individual radios every so often?
11C2P '83-'87
Airborne Infantry
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It's the encryption key that's loaded in the radio at a given time. With the ASIP and MBITR, it was common for guys to lose the fill because of dead batteries or taking too long when swapping them out.
As an RTO, one of my responsibilities was downloading new COMSEC keys from the S-6 and loading them into the SKL so I could fill everyone's radios. I'm not a 25-series, so I'm ignorant to any of the more technical details and terminology.
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