Direct-Dial Amphibious Communications. Investigations during MAFLEX 1-78 Employing Automatic Telephone Central Office AN/TTC-38, Manual Telephone Switchboard SB-3614/TT, and Multichannel Radio Equipments

摘要

This report summarizes communications and results of limited communications experiments by the Third Marine Amphibious Force during MAFLEX 1-78, from 16 September through 20 October 1978. Manual Telephone Switchboard SB-3614/TT was installed and used on USS BLUE RIDGE (LCC 19) for direct dialing to shore-based systems. The investigations focused on direct- and indirect-dial internodal communications using automatic switching (shore) assets, five-level precedence, and internodal conferencing. Efforts were directed toward enhancing ship-shore communications to support Marine Corps landing operations. (Author)