The Army personnel on Tacoma Site 10 consisted of four guys who had been on site awhile but were not selected to take over as the Assistant Site Chief. Maybe it was because none of them were microwave systems repairmen but they were all good men to me. My right hand man was Bobby L. Cole from Pomona, CA. We hit it off right away because I knew where his home town was located as I lived in the neighboring town of Ontario,CA. The other personnel were Paul Becker, Larry Beavers (did a tour in Vietnam artillery unit) and William Boogolu from Chicago who loved the singer Elvis Presley.

The Radio Operations building was just a few yards past the mess hall. There was a lot of room inside the building compared to the other radio sites where I had been stationed as there was less radio equipment and no switchboard to operate. Communications to other sites was carried out by the use of the order wire phones which was part of each system. There were AFKN radio and TV broadcast equipment racks, AN/TRC-24 VHF radio and AN/TRC-29 microwave radio equipment. Each type had associated multiplex gear and the master and slave units for each system. There was not any NEC radio like at Richmond Site.

In addition to the radio equipment there was a work bench, tools and various test equipment such as an oscilloscope, signal generator, Volt/ohm meter, tube tester, solder gun and other necessary electronic gear. We had a work desk, shop stock drawers with replacement parts such as tubes, resistors, capacitors and the site armory with our M-16's which replaced the M-14, M'-60's and our field gear was also located in the Radio Room.