ECO

The acronym ECO stands for Electronic Countermeasures Officer.^[1]

The ECO is responsible for the electronic countermeasures on a Raptor (Miniseries, "33"). ECOs also operate computer equipment, including scanning and detection equipment ("Water", "The Hand of God").

ECOs are also trained to fly the Raptor, and do so if the primary pilot is incapacitated or unavailable. Crashdown pilots his Raptor when his pilot Karma is killed (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I), and Racetrack pilots a Raptor on several occasions ("Fragged", "Final Cut").

As Galactica initially faces chronic pilot and ship shortages, ECOs such as Agathon and Edmondson often pull "double-duty" as either pilot or ECO as assigned by the CAG. As of the post-New Caprica exodus events, this is a non-issue (Torn).

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↑ While the term has not been explicitly defined as such on screen, it falls along the lines of the ECMO role in US Naval and Marine Corps aviation. In a blog entry Ron Moore also states that he originally envisioned the Raptor as an electronic warfare platform, similar to the modern EA-6 Prowler.

[1] While the term has not been explicitly defined as such on screen, it falls along the lines of the ECMO role in US Naval and Marine Corps aviation. In a blog entry Ron Moore also states that he originally envisioned the Raptor as an electronic warfare platform, similar to the modern EA-6 Prowler.

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