Maybe I am just of a rare bread, but to me it would seem common sense that two planes 1500 feet apart (if contact has been established with the unknown) should be handled by one ATC. Would have completely avoided the entire problem if the military pilot had a regulation require him/her to switch to the ATC frequency should a situation like this ever present itself again. What do you guys think?
The GCI is one one freq, as it needs to be. You can't be vectoring aircraft in for tight intercepts and military ops on a standard ARTCC freq. Just won't work, it has to be a discreet freq. Plus, with all the different ARTCC freqs, it wasn't known if ARTCC was even talking to the right guy at the time things were going down.
Also at the time, most military tactical jets like the F-4 were only equipped with UHF or two UHF. One for comms and one for interflight.
As cited in my tertiary causal factor:
*Communications- Incompatible- military/civilian UHF/VHF