OT: "Loose Lips Sink Ships"
SlavetotheGrind, you have my compassion. But, as a military wife for the last 18 years, it bothers me somewhat the amount of details you included in your comments. This is a totally open board. A person does not even need to be signed up as a member to read what is said here. So, for the benefit of anyone else who might have a similar announcement in the future:
a) It is generally bad policy to give details of time and place about the professional activities of any military members you personally know. Someone "in the know" (like "enemy intelligence") will know what kind of training is done where, therefore: naming the amount of time that someone of a particular MOS ("job title") is going to be stationed at a particular military base prior to disembarking, while it may be meaningless to most folks, it can tell others exactly what kind of training they are doing.
b) Giving the specific qualifications for which the military member has been singled out to go is not only a potential risk to national security, I would deem it a personal risk to your brother. If someone is singled out because of exemplary skill and talent, that can not only suggest tactics which are important to upcoming battle strategies, but it can single that individual out as a potential crucial link in the chain. For forces like the ones we are presently up against -- whom our military is vastly superior to -- guerilla tactics and targetting key personnel and key weak points is their only hope. For the sake of your brother's life, I hope you will remove some of those details from the post. There is a reason why we do not single out (by dress, etc) who the officers are, etc, on the field of battle in a blatant manner: It makes them targets. The enemy will focus more effort on taking them out than on "just anyone".
If you go back through my posts, I never said where my husband was going when he was gone earlier this year. That is not a question I will answer in an online forum to ANYONE. I also rarely speak about what kind of work he does. Or give any other details about his work -- For his safety as well as national security.
Please do not take offense. I am hardcore military culture. Most folks do not think about such things. But it is a Given in my life. I am saying this as much for your sake and your brother's sake as for "national security": What with "Homeland Security" efforts, I would hate to see you investigated. I would also hate to see your brother's life put in an unnecessary amount of danger.
Peace and good luck to your brother and your family.
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PS: For the sake of your brother, I, personally, think you should remove his picture from the WWW. Sigh. I have visions of some terrorist printing it off, enlarging it and looking for him.
