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G Division, SIT, and BS Message: Tom, Just surfed in after chatting with a guy from NJ -- One of the first at Chaing Mai Dan Hennessey.... Anyhow, I have been on the Old Spooks and Spies net for a long time, and finally got signed on here. Just wanted to pass along that what we once knew as G Division is no more. I was up there a couple of years ago, and most of Devens is an industrial park with all kinds of warehouse etc. Appropriately, they replaced G-Division with a Budweiser Bottling Plant. The only two buildings still standing were the G-Div Head Shed and the room where the remoted TRD-23 positions were installed. Ken |
Here are two G Division area photos from 1998.
Present use is unknown.
Photos courtesy of Chick Foote
Life at USASATC&S via C Company 1st Student Battalion: "CHARGING CHARLIE"
Photos and comment provided by Errol T. Betzenberger
Typically DF Ops in training were diverted from Morse Interceptor (MOS 058 and other designations over the years) Training after passing 15/18 Groups Per Minute Morse Code (CW) copying. Handout cover from the 1950s provided by Norm Kitchin.
"G" Division and USASATC&S and Fort Devens
For many years most Army Security Agency DF Operators started out at "G" Division of the USASATC&S, Fort Devens, Massachusetts. This usually involved being diverted, after some weeks in the Manual Morse Interceptor course to the DF operators course after passing 15/18 gpm (groups per minute) in the Manual Morse Interceptor course. So here are a few pictures of "G" Division and Devens that have been contributed. Yes! It (G Division) was unfenced until some time after June 1960 and before January 1972. Maybe someone will pop up with the exact dates. Would also like to get a couple more earlier photos. If you have some please contribute.
NOTE about the two photos above. The crest is the USASATC&S ' worn until the school was deactivated in 92/93 or somewhere there about. The photo adjoining is looking across the Devens parade ground to the main school houses of TC&S. The crest photo/scan is from my saved crest and the photo of the school building contributed by Mac MacKusick (Lecce & Ravenna Detachments). TC&S = Training Center and School. The students and cadre were held/assigned to the USASA Training Regiment; Headquarters Company (most of the School Cadre) and two Student Battalions.
Photo of the G Division sign taken about the time that G Division name
changed in the late 60s. Photo courtesy of Charlie Daniels given to Jim Luster
and sent in by him.
G Division in the fifties, Sal Corrado with SCR??.
Photo courtesy of Steve Roberts (Korea & Bahamas among others.)
Brian Alpert (point site Turkey, Lecde, Ravenna) in front of Second Battalion sign at Fort Devens in the 1960s. His photo.
Typical 056/05D DF Operator Graduation/Training Certificate.
Changed a bit over the years but the information remained essentially the same. This copy provided by Norm Kitchin. Click image for larger size view.
From Devens' Earlier Days:
Image is of souvenir pennant provided courtesy of Nick Snider from his extensive collection. Nick is a well known military sweetheart jewelry, home front, and militaria collector and author. He is also the founder and chairman of The National Museum of Patriotism in Atlanta.