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2LT Luke Nabozny, B/50th Sig Bn, participated in the Beyond the Horizon Trinidad Tobago opening ceremony on March 26, 2008. Here, LT Nabozny is with the USARSO DCO, the Trinidad Air Force commander, a member of the Trinidad Defense Force and one of the MEDRETE commanders. POTS users. After initial installation, the Joint Network Node platoons shifted focus to setting up tactical operations centers for the Partnership of the Americas Engagement Team staff. Soldiers from Company A provided VoIP phones and laptops a full two days prior to subscribers getting on ground. 2LT Samuel McElroy’s platoon initially encountered issues installing the link, however, they were able to work with a single channel team from the 56th Signal Battalion, and provide NIPR, SIPR and VTC capabilities a week prior to the team’s first request. On a daily basis, the teams provided voice and data services to subscribers and troubleshot any issues users encountered. The two deployed JNNs ran effectively for the past few months. Overall, the JNN package provided excellent communication for this mission and proved vital to mission accomplishment. Beyond the Horizon allowed Soldiers of the 50th Signal Battalion to sharpen current occupational tasks and cross train supplementary skills. Due to the high quality of 80 Summer 2008 Soldiers and their outstanding work, the JNNs maintained uninterrupted communications services for the duration of the missions. While on a command visit in April, the Commander of the 56th Signal Battalion, LTC Kirby Watson commented that “the sites look great, the customers are happy and the Soldiers show a lot of pride in their equipment and mission.” In fact, during the times that they were not troubleshooting an issue or improving the site, Soldiers held classes to further increase their knowledge and perfect their skills. The primary operators of both the 93TSC van and the JNN switch each taught classes on 25N and 25S skill sets. Recognizing the need to maintain equipment in order to accomplish mission, they also trained on preventive maintenance checks and services and generator maintenance. SPC Anthony Harrison explained “the time we have for training and cross-training the troops is very beneficial to the team.” Overall, Soldiers of 50th Signal Battalion provided continuous communication while developing skills to make the team stronger and able to take on more responsibility. “Beyond the Horizon 2008 provided an opportunity for the 50th Signal Battalion to contribute to a humanitarian cause, exercise the capabilities of the new JNN equipment, and demonstrate the abilities of the Soldiers,” according LTC Brian Foley, commander 50th Signal Battalion. “ 2LT Young, from Minneapolis, Minn., is a graduate of the United States Military Academy and recently the Basic Officer Leader Course. He is assigned as Executive Officer in Bravo Company, 50th Signal Battalion (Exp) and working on his masters in software engineering. ACRONYM QUICKSCAN AMHS – Army Message Handling System C4 – command, control, communications, and computers DMS – Defense Message System DSN – defense satellite network JNN - joint network node JTF – joint task force LSS – Lean Six Sigma NATO – North Atlantic Treaty Organization NDN – non-delivery notifications NIPR – nonsecure Internet Protocol router POT – Plain Old Telephone Service SIPR – secure internet protocol router TOC – tactical operations center U.S. – United States USSOUTHCOM – United States Southern Command VoIP – voice over IP; voice over internet protocol VTC – video teleconference center
Writing for your Army Communicator Your interest in writing for the Army Communicator is appreciated. AC is published quarterly by the Chief of Signal at Fort Gordon, Ga. Army Communicator is the U.S. Army Signal Regiment’s professional magazine. The magazine explores trends in the Regiment and provides a place for Signal Regiment members to share good ideas and lessons-learned with their colleagues. AC, as the Signal Regiment’s professionaldevelopment magazine, is supported by article contributions from Signal Regiment members; AC depends on noncommissioned officers, officers, warrant officers, and Regimental Civilian employees to contribute quality articles on topics of interest to the entire Regiment. We hope you consider sending us an article on Signal work that you and your unit are doing! To be more successful in getting your manuscript from raw manuscript to the published product, please see our writer’s guidance and style manual found online at http//:www.gordon.army.mil/ocos/ac/. This information answers many questions and concerns, and it discusses our minimum requirements. There’s a lot of material to absorb if you read everything, so we recommend that at a minimum, read the “How to submit an article” section before you submit your article. More detailed guidance beyond the general guidance is found on our manuscript-formatting webpage. If you have questions/concerns the writer’s guidance doesn’t answer, please feel free to contact the editor anytime. We look forward to reading your article. (Email address below.) Army Communicator article submission in summary Your manuscript package should consist of these items in this order: Cover letter/cover page requesting publication, including work phone number, email address, snail-mail address and manuscript word count; Manuscript: 1,000- to 3,000-word original, unpublished manuscript submitted as simple word-processing document and with proper attribution to sources; CD: Manuscript on a computer disk if submitting article with hard-copy, or as an email attachment if submitting electronically; Bio: Author biographical sentences at article’s end; Acronym list following short author biography (in alphabetical order); Art: Photos or illustrations submitted separate from the text (not embedded in the text), with each piece of “art” as an individual file in JPG or TIF format; Release: Letter or email with permission for use of private-sector photo or illustration and/or copyright release, if applicable; Photo cutlines: Word-processing document containing adequate description (complete names, action in photo of each photographs/illustrations and photographer/illustrator credits.) Email & article submissions Email articles to: ACeditor@conus.army.mil Web site: www.gordon.army.mil/ocos/ac/ AKO: Access Army Communicator through the Signal Center Family of Web and Community pages -- find the Regimental Division Community page and submit your article at the Open Access. You will see a heading “Deadline for 2008”. Find the “Article Submission” folder and upload your article. Please email the editor online to inform the article is there. Thank you for your follow through in this process. Fall 2008: slated for publication 20 October 2008 Manuscripts due NLT August 1 if charts/illustrations Manuscripts due NLT August 8 if charts/illustrations Winter 2009: slated for publication 25 February 2009 Manuscripts due NLT December 12 if charts/illustrations Manuscripts due NLT December 29 if no illustrations or photos Spring 2009: slated for publication 28 April 2009 Manuscripts due NLT February 27 if charts/illustrations Manuscripts due NLT March 6 if no illustrations or photos
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