• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    To be fair, if the lead NCO of a unit is just going to flat out lie then a lot of people are going to believe it. I can’t imagine being a lower NCO or enlisted and thinking command actually authorized the chiefs to break operational security for entertainment, but only them. Every chief in that crew should be busted and flagged against promotion again. The investigation was completely right to say if they didn’t know, they should have.

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      I may have missed it in this article, though I believe I read elsewhere, that she got busted down one rank and that’s it. I know military in general is having retention and recruitment issues, but to me this is more than just a busting down offense. That the senior enlisted on a ship would so nonchalantly disregard OPSEC demonstrates either a clear lack of understanding, or worse, something more nefarious.

      We saw a naval officer relieved of command for having the scope backwards on his rifle. This, to me, rises to a much higher level.

      • flyingchaucer@lemmy.sdf.org
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        14 days ago

        We saw a naval officer relieved of command for having the scope backwards on his rifle.

        Well in that case, it was just a matter of bad optics.