Ep. 246 Scott Jones aka Saint Scojo Electronic Warfare Operator 2nd Commando Regiment and Combat Controller.
And so we went up to Shahidi SS to disrupt the Taliban so that they couldn't get their shit together and come and attack the base as we're leaving, which is all the indications that's what they wanted to do.
Ep. 246 Scott Jones aka Saint Scojo Electronic Warfare Operator 2nd Commando Regiment and Combat Controller.
So the idea behind that is you've got an antenna, the one that looks like a landmine that I'm doing a showy out of on the socials, and that's the antenna head.
Ep. 246 Scott Jones aka Saint Scojo Electronic Warfare Operator 2nd Commando Regiment and Combat Controller.
The way that when someone transmits off a radio, the signal will flood across that antenna head, and the microseconds between each antenna, let's say there's 400 or 500 mini antennas inside that landmine-looking thing, and the way that the signal sweeps across it, it can tell –
Ep. 246 Scott Jones aka Saint Scojo Electronic Warfare Operator 2nd Commando Regiment and Combat Controller.
So you don't necessarily need an EW operator out on the job because an interpreter walking around with one of the shooters can listen to that and tell the person next to them, oh, the Taliban are about to shoot us.
Ep. 246 Scott Jones aka Saint Scojo Electronic Warfare Operator 2nd Commando Regiment and Combat Controller.
And if you've got two bears on either side of the valley, so let's picture an Afghan valley, and I'm on the southern side on a large feature, and another bear's on the northern side, and the Taliban are down in the green belt, left to right in front of us, east to west.