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{{quote|''"Hailing frequencies open, Sir."''|'''Lt. Uhura''', ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]''}}

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* ''[[Super Troopers]]'' has [[Jerkass|Farva]] given this job at the highway department as punishment after [[Noodle Incident|the school bus incident]]. Meanwhile, [[Fair Cop|Ursula]] is tasked with the same job at the Spurbury Police Department [[Stay in the Kitchen|because she's a woman.]]

* ''[[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea|Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea]]'' (1961). The comm officer aboard the Seaview (a U.S. government vessel) was called Sparks.

* ''[[We Were Soldiers]]'': A number of radio operators are mixed in amongst the soldiers, with [[Red Shirt|several unnamed ones]] getting shot and killed during firefights. Another one, after proving himself particularly skilled by managing to tune in on radio transmissions from a battle happening on the other side of the Earth<ref> [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]. This actually happened, owing to a quirk of UHF radio signals that allows them to bounce off the upper atmosphere</ref>, is assigned as Colonel Moore's personal radioman.

* ''[[We Were Soldiers]]'': A number of radio operators are mixed in amongst the soldiers, with [[Red Shirt|several unnamed ones]] getting shot and killed during firefights. Another one, after proving himself particularly skilled by managing to tune in on radio transmissions from a battle happening on the other side of the Earth,<ref>[[Reality Is Unrealistic]]. This actually happened, owing to a quirk of UHF radio signals that allows them to bounce off the upper atmosphere</ref> is assigned as Colonel Moore's personal radioman.

** The movie also had a radioman whose primary responsibility was calling in fire support. [[All There in the Manual|According to the book the film was based on]], he was actually a [[Ace Pilot|fighter pilot]] by trade.