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dutch777

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39. Actually it was intercept and translate voice communications but it was not a dialog, no.

Reply to DFW (Reply #25)

Wed Apr 16, 2025, 12:36 PM

Apr 2025

And most of it was in various highly formatted military message types although where you really learned things was when folks just started chit chatting and gossiping because they were bored.

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The army was probably expecting you to decipher texts DFW Apr 2025 #25

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