Ed_The_Gypsy
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Martha, the only thing going for us is that the other guys are human, too. Same dementia.
Yes, aren't real losers a security risk?
The reason? After a year of working hands on with live missiles, ammo, conventional and nuclear weapons, it was discovered that he had been a resident in a local mental facility.
Sounds to me like someone dropped the dime on him.... it was discovered that he had been a resident in a local mental facility.
Of course, that was quite a while ago. I'm sure they have all the bugs worked out by now....
I hadn't realized more posts had been made before I posted my last comment.
We practiced that all the time in the submarine force. In fact when anyone came up with a particularly creative screwup, we used to tell everyone else about it and sit through hours of training in admiration of their accomplishments.I guess what we need is two things:
1) Anyone who will receive classified information needs to be so incompetent that they couldnt disseminate the information even if it comes with a travel handle and prepaid postage attached
2) Everyone that has access to classified information needs to be able to look at it and then distribute information that is so completely different from what they read that anyone who evaluates it will come to a totally wrong conclusion.
It frustrated the heck out of the Germans in WWII, and to some extent the Russians in the Cold War, how frequently American military commanders felt free to disregard their tactical publications whenever deemed necessary. After all, when you've gone to all that trouble to obtain the enemy's latest classified info and design your responses to counter their tactical guidance, you'd like to think that they're studying it too...
"The reason that the America army does so well in wartime is that war is chaos and the American army practices chaos on a daily basis." -- A German General Officer
"One of the serious problems in planning against American doctrine that the Americans do not read their manuals nor do they feel any obligations to follow their doctrine." -- From a Russian military document
Marty, that sounds like the old Human Reliability Program (HRP), which should never have allowed him in. I don't know if that's still used, but when I was handling nukes in SAC we had the security clearance guys and the HRP guys, and they did things their own way, though I'm sure they shared some data. Socializing with a Soviet citizen would have been a security problem, acting loony would have been a HRP problem. I had to get rid of one guy through HRP when he told me he would get an urge every now and them to pull his gun and shoot the nuke. I have a feeling he wanted a ticket out, though.
It frustrated the heck out of the Germans in WWII, and to some extent the Russians in the Cold War, how frequently American military commanders felt free to disregard their tactical publications whenever deemed necessary. After all, when you've gone to all that trouble to obtain the enemy's latest classified info and design your responses to counter their tactical guidance, you'd like to think that they're studying it too...
So...were you a loader, ammo, nuke specialist or what? What was your AFSC?
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"The reason that the America army does so well in wartime is that war is chaos and the American army practices chaos on a daily basis." -- A German General Officer
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"One of the serious problems in planning against American doctrine that the Americans do not read their manuals nor do they feel any obligations to follow their doctrine." -- From a Russian military document
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He survived major life-threatening surgery several months back and the command is either trying to send him a hint or cover their collective asses. But otherwise the investigation seems to be a waste of time/effort/money, unless it's the only path they can find to permanently removing his clearances. It's hard to see how he's ever going to be able to resume anything resembling a "normal" life, let alone return to work.
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