[MilCom] Re: Re: MIL: 8992.0 - OMNI 02

Jeff Haverlah jehaverlah at Houston.rr.com
Sat Nov 6 22:13:10 EST 2004


At 06:31 PM 11/6/04 -0500, Rapbep at aol.com wrote:

>The 678 DSN according to my list serves the Navy Reserve units at NRB New
>Orleans.
>
>Yesterday I had Omni 17 (CG C-130 # 1718) operating on a drug patrol off the
>northern coast of Colombia & Venezuela working with the US Navy FFG Boone.
>
>Maybe the Omni ## callsign is a special activity calsign used by CG & Navy
>aircraft when they are on counter-drug ops.


     The purpose of the patch to to give the duty office his local eta and 
to request customs.  He id'd himself as "at PAPA ZULU 335".

Jeff Haverlah

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