_________image_________ Camp Headquarters Bldg 172 (1990) Lodger Units Yearly Guests Very much part of the daily activity within Camp Wainwright can be attributed to the lodging units who reside here. Support services available throughout the establishment are offered to and used by three major guests: 742 Communication Squadron Wainwright Detachment, the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry Battle School, and the British Army Training Support Unit Wainwright. The following pages will eplain each lodger unit’s function within the camp’s operation. 742 Communication Squadron At the present, 742 Cmmunication Squadron Wainwright Detachment’s administration office is located iin Building 172, Camp Headquarters, and commanded by Capt. J.C.E. Sherman who has supplied photos (opposite) of some of the equipment for which his staff is responsible. The role of 742 Communication Squadron Wainwright Detachment (Comm Det) is to provide strategic communications for the Canadian Forces in the Camp Wainwright area. To fulfill this assignment, Comm Det operates a Strategic Message Switching System (SMSS) Message Centre in support of the Camp and its lodger and visiting units; operates facilities to extend the SMSS to operational units or formations temporarily deployed in Camp; operates, maintains and administers a telephone exchange and associated cable plant in Camp. In other words… Comm Det does everything for the Camp that AFT does for the province, installing, maintaining and repairing telephone service and communication devises in buildings or the field. Including far more than the telephone exchange and switchboard operation, every piece of communications equipment at the Camp is Comm Det’s responsibility: radios, towers, cellular phones, teletype equipment, computers, and FAX machines.