So one of the good things about google news is that its very random and pulls news article from all the major sources so you get an unbiased selection of articles. It also grabs sites that aren't US based, so I end up on Reuters and the London Telegraph etc etc etc. I was browsing around the telegraph and came upon this slide of US and South Korea military exercises. The navy should have taken notes from BP on this one and doctored up this photo. As someone that works in similar work spaces I just shook me head and sighed deeply.
It just looks like some cool multi-screen action of tactical 21 century crap splattered over the wall. Upon further investigation we see a COMPOSE SECRET desktop and a very readable GCCS(I think) screen. Awesome. Thanks goes out to the mulitple layers of failure involving the watchstanders and watch supervisors for letting them take this picture in the first place, the Public Affairs Team who apparently has no qualms with releasing clearly labeled classified items to the public, and the chain of command on the ship for letting all this come together in one glorious are-you-fucking-kindding-me scenario.
Let's leave wikileaks alone and start with looking at some in house issues. Actually, now that I think about it most of the material that wikileaks let out was likely sourced from military personnel. I for one am a fan of releasing damnable evidence like the gun-cam of those trigger happy Apache pilots cutting down those journalists and blowing up a van full of children. Good job chopper-jockeys. I'm glad all you need is a college degree and 20/20 vision to get handed 100 ton flying killing machine and free reign to shoot anyone you fucking feel like. So I hope wikileaks keeps doing what it does as long it's whistle blowing stuff and not outing CIA agents and active operations.
But even if they get shut down we'll still have to deal with some JO pushing out pics of classified work spaces to Reuters.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
NARMY
Well navytimes.com is now reporting that the missing service members are sailors. It doesn't really have any statements to back up that claim. I hope they are not right.
It sounds like the two were in the wrong place at the wrong time. It must be different on the ground, you can just take a vehicle in a war zone and just "head out" on your own. Sounds like special forces guys, something some meat head EOD guys would do. I've already known a few from base that have done stupid things like kill themselves on sports bikes and beat their wives. They let anyone that operate a light switch and swim do that stuff it seems. It's hard to criticize the community as a whole but most of the old timers were really elite and there were only a handful of Det's back in the day (pre 2000). So they could pick and choose. Same thing with the MA rate, good lord don't get me started on those egotistical bastards. You had to earn that shit before 9/11, now they just spray you with some mace, hand you a gun and a baton and give you a early 2000 model ford explorer.
All in all, I hope the Times got it wrong because no squid deserves to be dragged out of his vehicle, beaten and kidnapped when he's covering some Army guy's job filling an IA billet.
It sounds like the two were in the wrong place at the wrong time. It must be different on the ground, you can just take a vehicle in a war zone and just "head out" on your own. Sounds like special forces guys, something some meat head EOD guys would do. I've already known a few from base that have done stupid things like kill themselves on sports bikes and beat their wives. They let anyone that operate a light switch and swim do that stuff it seems. It's hard to criticize the community as a whole but most of the old timers were really elite and there were only a handful of Det's back in the day (pre 2000). So they could pick and choose. Same thing with the MA rate, good lord don't get me started on those egotistical bastards. You had to earn that shit before 9/11, now they just spray you with some mace, hand you a gun and a baton and give you a early 2000 model ford explorer.
All in all, I hope the Times got it wrong because no squid deserves to be dragged out of his vehicle, beaten and kidnapped when he's covering some Army guy's job filling an IA billet.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
I hate the title of this blog.
I got tired of staring at the "choose your title" screen so I just threw up some words and that sounded like I was trying to take this semi-seriously. So The Modern Sailor...
It's strange because over the last few years the navy has changed so much I would get thrown out for doing the shit I've done or been involved with over the last 7 years of my career. Throwing underage house parties with my chain of command there, drunk on duty used to be almost constant, whoring about on deployment, cheating at almost everything you get graded and observed on, the list goes on but it's nothing really criminal. Just a general lack of what people call "Professionalism" nowadays. So being that Big Navy has changed, so have I had to cope with said changes and trying to conform to being a Modern Sailor.
It's strange because over the last few years the navy has changed so much I would get thrown out for doing the shit I've done or been involved with over the last 7 years of my career. Throwing underage house parties with my chain of command there, drunk on duty used to be almost constant, whoring about on deployment, cheating at almost everything you get graded and observed on, the list goes on but it's nothing really criminal. Just a general lack of what people call "Professionalism" nowadays. So being that Big Navy has changed, so have I had to cope with said changes and trying to conform to being a Modern Sailor.
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