[MilCom] Broadband Comms Monitoring for Presidential Security?

[Matt Cawby]

That's nothing, an RC-135 flies over my house every morning at 2 am and 
remotely formats my hard drive.

If you really want something to worry about, read this from Air Force 
Instruction 11-2KC-135, C/KC-135 Operations Procedures. ChemSpray anyone?

10.23. (Added) Aircrew Chemical Operations and Procedures. When 
performing flying duties while

wearing AERPs, crewmembers will wear issued flying glasses. The black 
plastic frame glasses issued for

use with ground crew chemical ensemble are NOT authorized for use during 
flying operations and will

not be worn with the aircraft chemical defense ensemble. (Reference 
paragraph 23.10)



Matt Cawby


Ken wrote:

>Apparently Steve Douglass, 'Popular Communications', monthly columnist, has
>got a  feature article (3 pages) "A Close Encounter of the Dubya Kind" in
>the July 2004 edition which seems to indicate that he believes that when the
>president is in an area, that there's an airborne aircraft flying above that
>is monitoring a very wide range of frequencies being used on the ground and
>if any radio comms (e.g. GMRS) are taken out of context to be a threat to
>the President than a team is dispatched to track it down....
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>Personally, I don't think terrorists are using FRS, GMRS, MURS, or Amateur
>radios for their communications needs in the United States but it's more
>probable that they may be using some of those prepaid digitial cellular
>phones, which would be much more versatile than short range comms....  BUT
>my theory could be wrong.. perhaps we all need to be placing our scanners in
>the search mode to see what we might hear!!!???
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>So does anyone have an opinion on these theories???
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>Ken
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