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 positions refer to USS VINCENNES's CFC operator positions.

d. When the term "in close control" or "hooked" is used with a TN it means that the operator referred to has the following displayed on the Character Read Out (CRO) display located on hls console: TN, ID, grid coordinates, course, speed, altitude, ID amplifying information, Mode I/II/III IFF received, tracking quality, bearing and range.

e. [].

(1). 0647Z

(a) (b)

(c)

(d) The radar operators in USS VINCENNES cannot discriminate size of a contact regardless of aspect angle.

(e) [] (RSC) determined that TN 4131 was a single track.

(f) as it went "feet wet" in accordance with [].

(g)[] (Air Detector Tracker and Track Supervisor-SIDES) recalled picking up the track on a course of 200, Speed 300kts, with a Mode III- 6700 block.

(h) [] (IDS) picked up Mode III-6675 as the aircraft departed Bandar Abbas. .

(i) [] (AIC-3) also recalled seeing Mode III-6675 on his CRO.

(j) [] (UBS) saw Mode III-66?? and later saw an unspecified Mode II.

(k) [].