The Landing Craft Control Team. A Combined Amphibious Unit Dutch boat resources combined with Swedish combat boats constituted an amphibious unit called the Landing Craft Control Team (LCCT). The senior officer among the units, who in this case was Dutch, led the team, while the deputy team leader was the highest ranked Swedish officer.177 Organisationally, the LCCT was made up of one Dutch LCU, four FRISCs, a boarding team and two Swedish combat boats (CB90s). Xxxxxxx was done by the commanding officer of HNLMS Xxxxx xx Xxxx to the commander of the LCCT, who then in turn tasked either the Dutch or Swedish units, or both for combined efforts. Thus, there was no separate tasking of the units along national lines and the CO of the Xxxxx xx Xxxx only had one point of contact for all the boats. Operationally, however, the boat crews were separated nationally in the sense that Dutch personnel operated the LCU and the FRISCs and Swedish personnel operated the CB90s.178 During the course of the mission, however, the CB90s had a Dutch signalist placed on board to operate the communication systems to ensure communication between the Dutch and Swedish boats and between the Swedish boats and the Xxxxx xx Xxxx. This was because the Dutch systems and related cryptos were NATO-based and the Swedish systems were not compatible with them. To enable Dutch and Swedish boats to communicate, two Dutch systems were installed on the CB90s: a command and control system for blue force tracking and a system for encrypted communication.179 None of the interviewees saw this as causing any operational problems or having an impact on the execution of the team’s tasks. It led to somewhat different procedures than 176 Interviews 3 and 17. 177 Interviews 17 and 29. 178 Interviews 12 and 17. 179 Interviews 1, 3, 12, 17 and 49. FOI-R--4101--SE usual, when communications between combat boats would normally go from one boat commander to another, as the information was sent through the signalist before being translated into Swedish.180
