George,
I'm not going to jump in this fray with a holier-than-thou attitude. I just want to clarify where I think Boehm was coming from.
From a reserve standpoint, Comms is a little bit more exclusive. Reserve cmbt arms units, spec Inf, have little time to train their pers up to BTS. When on an excersize, thus enter the Communications Reserve. These units have the nescessary equipment to provide and maintain ( supposedly) CPs and RRBs.
Now, I've operated with several combat arms, both reg and res. Most challenging was the arty. You need to be fast and extremely accurate. I have a lot of respect for the arty sigs. But the guns here in Ottawa, for the last few years, have had a Sigs Det provided to them from 763 Comms Regiment.
Now you know I prefer the field work. I HAVE been on OPs, Recce Patrols, sent returns and reports, set up patrol, Directional, and expedient antenna's. I have trouble shot for Armd Recce Sqn CPs. I'm not going to claim to be alone in knowing it.
Yes, I've known Crewman and infanteers that, if you put a Jimmy on them, you wouldn't know they weren't sig Ops. But most of these were either Reg F, or had been in many years.
Boehm, don't think that infanteers know diddly-squat about the rads. I'm a firm believer in everyone having as much comms training as possible, makes our job easier. Just like the more combat training a field sig has, the easier it is for the infanteers to do theirs. I think you will start seeing the Res Bde's having more C2 vehicles availaible to them.
Anyway...back to building my TacNet Server.