Kode 9 on Original Sonic Warfare

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Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

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  In the colonial period in Jamaica, there was a kind of tribe called the Maroons. And they used these horns, kind of ram's horns, called the abeng. And the abeng, so they used to communicate with each other using, just blowing into this horn, kind of trumpet type sound. And so they used it to communicate in the jungle…

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  Because they didn't know what it was, and they're in the jungle, they're from England, they're out of their home turf. And not only that, but these sounds, device were usually coupled with the planning of ambushes where you know the marines would basically early guerrilla warfare they'd be camouflaged as the jungle…