Electronic Warfare/Intercept Systems Repairer

Maintained the SIGINT and EW collection gear — Guardrail, Trojan Spirit, Prophet, the antenna farms.

The Story

The 1985 split into five specialties was justified by "specialization in increasingly complex systems." The 1998 recombination used the exact opposite argument — "common skills, fewer soldiers, OJT will cover it." Same Army, thirteen years apart.