The CCT's Organizational Readiness Evaluation (1971)

Organizational Readiness Evaluation (ORE)
Camp Pendleton’s main entrance
Type of Activity	Organizational Readiness Evaluation (ORE)
Location
Location		Camp Pendleton San Diego County
Date of Activity		May 11 1971
Coordinates		+33°20′N 117°25′W

11 May 71 to Camp Pendleton CA-ORE

Since the CCT was meant to be a fast response team that could respond quickly, DCSU HQ decided to surprise us with an Organizational Readiness Evaluation (ORE). I received a call from Mr. Douglas at about 7:30 in the evening to assemble the team ASAP at our El Toro shop.

I started calling or paging everyone to immediately call me for instructions it only took about 15 min. to inform everyone to pack a bag and report to our shop. When we arrived, we were instructed to prepare to leave first thing in the morning with all our radio, switchboard, and Commcenter equipment for an unknown location in southern CA. We all went to the EL Toro MCAS, officers BOQ to spend the night.

Abandoned Quonset Huts

Our instructions were to depart and proceed to Camp Pendleton to set up our equipment in a building on base. The building turned out to be an old WWII Quonset hut in an isolated area of Camp Pendleton. We were glad to find that the building did have electricity to power our equipment. It only took us about an hour to set up all our equipment and run the necessary radio keying lines and interconnecting audio circuits between the two URT-23 HF SSB radios with the mini board and the Commcenter. Operational tests were conducted for both TTY and voice traffic including HF Phone Patches with Cactus and FM Radio patches with various places through San Clemente switch board. 

This exercise continued until early evening when we were advised to terminate our activities, pack up our equipment and return to El Toro.