ECO

Acronym: Electronic Countermeasures Officer

Overview

The ECO is responsible for the Electronic Countermeasures functionality on the Raptor. (Miniseries, 33) ECOs also operate computer equipment, including scanning and detection equipment. (Water, The Hand of God).

ECOs apparently have at least a basic ability to fly a Raptor if the dedicated pilot is incapacitated or unavailable, as 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 is facing a chronic manpower shortage, ECOs like Racetrack may now be pulling 'double-shifts' piloting Raptors on a regular basis.

ECOs

• Lt. Karl C. "Helo" Agathon, Battlestar Galactica
• Crashdown, Battlestar Galactica
• Lt. Margaret "Racetrack" Edmonson, Battlestar Galactica

crew member handling electronic countermeasures of a craft; ECOs are standard crew aboard Raptors (see: ECO)

crew member handling electronic countermeasures of a craft; ECOs are standard crew aboard Raptors (see: ECO)

Re-imagined Series definition: initial skills training; can refer to basic military indoctrination, and arms and ground training (TRS: "Fragged"); and basic flight training (TRS: "Miniseries")

Galactica 1980 definition:  a unit of temperature; 2000 degrees chronic would be the skin temperature of the A-B Raider at maximum upon entering Earth's atmosphere (1980: "The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I")