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The MCO staff form a very small part of the ship's company, two LRO(G)s and six R01(G)s. They are at the heart of every operation the ship does, providing the Ops Room with all their radio circuits so that they can have all the computer data they need, as well as Helo Control, AAWC, ASWAC and so on. However during the Operation our MCO had the workload of a much bigger ship meaning more than double the work usually experienced during an exercise, and of an intensity only briefly experienced at Portland! They had to change frequencies regularly of course, only to find our little friend, the Argy, already there 'spoofing'. All didn't go in vain however as we played the same game, monitoring Argie morse circuits to provide valuable Information for our intelligence sources ashore, and at sea.