Bill Thompson

Yeah, I just, I always feel like I'm- I like a good long answer.

Don't worry about that.

Okay.

When I joined the military, I was in signals intelligence.

and essentially learning the ins and outs of radars, how radars work, what they do, how they function.

Did you guys ever see any weird shit, like UFO shit?

I wish I had.

I really do.

I wish you had too.

Yeah, I really do.

I was more in the signals intelligence side of the house, focusing first on electronic signals or emanations from radars, mapping them so that if we were going to go do the ground invasion and there was going to be some air support going in first and blowing shit up, we would tell them, hey, there's a

man-packable SA-7 here, there's a SA-10 here, there's this here, there's there, and then telling these pilots so they didn't get shot out of the sky.

Quickly, when the war kicked off, that became irrelevant because there was no surface-to-air missiles, surface-to-surface missiles in Iraq.

We had knocked them all out in the first few weeks.

So then it shifted to communications intelligence.

So I kind of retrained on communications intelligence.

And that was at that time off of cell phones, off of push to talk radios, repeaters, long haul networks, terrestrial networks, extraterrestrial networks.

And what I mean by that is the stuff, the satellites in the sky.

and doing analysis on those to try to inform what we call the common operating picture of the battlefield for a combatant commander.

So a combatant commander wants to know where the bad guys are, what they're doing, what they're saying.