Common radios providing soldiers link to each other Common radios providing soldiers link to each other by Sgt. Soldiers can now use common hand-held radios to talk to each other in the field without enemy forces knowing the U.S. military is near. Squads and teams will benefit the most from the system, Nelson said. They are the lowest level core group of warriors who operate with synergy to accomplish a specific task. The more cohesive they are, the more effective they are.
History is replete with examples of small units accomplishing incredible tasks.
Nelson said the speaker rests just over the left ear and the volume is adjustable so that a person standing even a few feet away cannot hear it. The boom microphone is of the noise canceling type and allows for whispering. The radio is kept in an olive drab nylon case which prevents any light emissions and the radio does not beep, click or squelch when it is activated. The project for improving communications among soldiers in the field was approved in 1995 under the Soldier Enhancement Program, Nelson said. The SEP is an acquisition process established by Congress in 1989 for evaluating commercial off the shelf items and getting them in the hands of soldiers in three years or less.