Christopher Dunn played the radio operator. He’s the editor of the Barr Wars. Which supposedly still continue, or so I’ve heard rumors.
We were having lunch and discussing the character he would play, and I mentioned he might be the radio operator. Somehow the conversation led to his saying, “You should make the operator unable to speak.”
And so I did. One of the rules of writing: just DO it. You’ll find the factual background afterwards, because SOMEBODY will have done this stuff.
