Scott Jones
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And I've never been to Bali.
I don't give a fuck about that place.
And now I'm never allowed to go there because I did that course.
And then if you pass that course, you got to Seven Sig in Kabbalah.
And the reason why that base is there is because the signals from Vietnam, the HF signals from back in the Vietnam War would perfectly bounce off the ionosphere and land in that area of Queensland.
And that's where the operational SIGs would sit there and log all of the communications from the Vietnam War live.
Like the Battle of Long Tan, they're listening to it at 17.
Yeah, yeah.
And so you got there and that was about almost a year as well, 10 months.
And you learn how to be a bear.
But it was a strategic role at that time.
So IATs is a strategic tri-service role.
So you're learning how to โ
Obviously, I can't get into it too much because it's like the highest clear job in the army with all of its caveats, top secret clearance.
Yeah, you learn how to log enemy communications and then touch type.
So obviously your keyboard skills need to be fucking quick.
So they're like basically blindfold you, put a cover over your, so you can't see your own hands and you've got to pass typing tests at certain words per minute or you get kicked off.
And if you get kicked off, you go back to be a normal Sig, like a loser Sig, like Chris Brennan.
Yeah.
Yeah.