STANDOFF and FLYBALL on HFGCS

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Hooligan

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They could be pretty much ANYTHING --- either call could be a ground-command center -- an AFB's Command Post, STRATCOM Global Operations Center, USAF Global Strike Command operations center, Navy STRATCOM WING ONE Quarterdeck, Navy Submarine Squadron Quarterdeck, Navy Combined Task Force, NMCC or NMCC Site R, a ground-mobile command center, an E-6B or E-4B airborne command post, or a collective callword for a particular base/unit/group of assets.

One thing some people do is hear a callsign/callword on UHF like 311.0 or 323.8MHz, believe it to be an airborne transmitter, then they check ADS-B and correlate that call with an E-6B or E-4B that's within their UHF receiving range, but that's not often 100% accurate unless there are other indicators too.

There is a special exercise that just recently started & is lasting almost 2 more weeks.
 

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A lot of those tactical callsigns, particularly for airborne assets, will also change daily.

All land-based tactical calls on HFGCS change at 2359z daily. They really rotate through some amusing tounge-in-cheek ones now and again. A while back on the day the new Resident Evil movie was released, STRATCOM was using "Umbrella". Heh.

Radio checks are also done daily, generally however using the actual base name, as well as the generic Mainsail.
 
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