Charles F. Hannagan, CTC USN, 1941-1951 This is a short tale which tells how 37 males joined OP20G the predecessor of FRUPAC, Security Groups, etc. back in the good old days (March 1942). Following the attack on Pearl Harbor a group of 75, including the senior class attending radio school at San Diego Naval Training Station, had their graduation day moved ahead, boarded the USNS Henderson in San Francisco and left for Pearl on 27 Dec. 1941. Arriving on 10 Jan 1942 the group was divided - 38 were sent to Ford Island for aviation radio duty. 37 of us were sent to Camp Andrews as a work crew at an ammunition depot replacing spent live ammo aboard ships - and still carried by some ships dummy training rounds. About 6 weeks later we were sent to NPM the Lualualei Transmitting Station - again mainly as a work crew. One day Commander Graham from Wahiawa conducting an inspection spotted and spoke to one of us, Bob Davis, the son of a Navy Captain with whom Graham had served. He was surprised to learn that, while there was a great demand for radiomen throughout the fleet we were brush cutting. 2 days later 23 of us, those whose last name began with A through J, were at Wahiawa. (Included were Nick Caravakis, Al Fishburn, Jim Forgy, John Ferguson, Stan Dudley, Dave Davidson, Red Gillette, Virgil Houck, Ralph Cox and yours truly). Shortly after arriving Tex Rorie gathered our group, 8 others from the fleet (Bob Rice, Bob Price, Pat Wilder, Joe Jillson, etc.) along with 6 Reservists (Herb Plummer, Allan Stewart, etc.) stressed the importance of secrecy, quoted the Espionage Act, and had us take, and acknowledge by our signature, that we understood and would obey said things. And thus was formed Wahiawa Class 1 (First instructor CRM Harvey Howard who was relieved by RM1 Elliot Okins). Class 1 aka the Attic Gang members, by taking over the low level Japanese circuits shortly before the battle of Midway, freed for more important duties the On The Roof Gang. Foot note: The CT rating was not yet invented - thus we, the original class, were Radiomen Strikers while those from the fleet and the Reservists carried ratings of RM3, thru RM1. Nothing was ever mentioned about the need to be cleared by the FBI before admittance into FRUPAC. It was only after having been away from home for 41 consecutive months Aug 41 thru Dec 44 and granted 30days Leave before reporting to Imperial Beach that I learned that a few members of my family had been visited by FBI agents in 1943. Note: See the Fall 2000 and Spring 2001 Cryptologs for the In The Attic Gang story. Chuck Hannagan, ex CRM/CTC