Communications officer
A communications officer is a naval
receivers. The communications officer is usually responsible for encrypting and decrypting secret message traffic and for distribution and safe storage of secret messages. Aboard some ships, the communications officer is responsible for the ship's secret publications inventory or for the ship's post office and distribution of mail.[1]
In the United States Navy, communications officers are referred to as a COMMO.
In the
COMSEC
). CISOs will generally have 3–5 years' experience at sea as watchkeepers, as well as a 4–5 month course focusing on communications systems equipment, policy, and procedure.
Sources
- ^ Mayo, Claude Banks (1939). Your Navy. Los Angeles: Parker & Baird Company. pp. 300–302.