via the Associated Press.
I thought the guy who wrote the book might take a hit but not the video game guys. This is gonna be interesting...what remains to be seen is how this affects the SEALs inside JSOC. Does this spoil the work that they did to become one of the go to teams? Are they still trusted by leadership?
WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior defense official says seven members of the secretive Navy SEAL Team 6, including one involved in the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, have been punished for allegedly disclosing classified information.I never saw this coming.
The official, who discussed the matter on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the case, says the seven received what the military calls "nonjudicial" punishment on Wednesday. They are alleged to have provided the information to the maker of a video game.
The official says four other SEALs are under investigation for similar alleged disclosures.
The punishments were first reported by CBS News.
I thought the guy who wrote the book might take a hit but not the video game guys. This is gonna be interesting...what remains to be seen is how this affects the SEALs inside JSOC. Does this spoil the work that they did to become one of the go to teams? Are they still trusted by leadership?
Pants or lips, zipper failure is career ending. Letters of reprimand and loss of pay seem lightweight for breaking OpSec.
ReplyDeleteyeah it does...but considering that one of the hollow grails for Special Ops is suppose to be secrecy then maybe this is career ending...at least in SOCOM.
Deletewhat continues to worry me is that book and now a video game is giving away the very way they fight, good heavens they are giving them a combat simulator the taliban, china, russia and everyoen can use to defend against one of our most (or use to be most) powerful units. what the hell are they thinking.
ReplyDeletewell to be quite honest, the way that SOCOM is partnering with everyone from the Afghanistan National Army to the way we're working with special forces world wide, the play book is basically known.
Deletethe biggest worry that Special Operations faces is an ambush. one day a high value target is going to look ripe and juicy to intel and these guys are going to face rope into hell. its coming and i think SOCOM knows its coming.
Well you better hope there is no repeat of what the Israeli Shayetet 13 unit suffered in Lebanon in 1997. An informant betrayed the raid and the unit was decimated in an ambush.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: is the remedy worse?
ReplyDeleteThey just announced, loudly, that that game _can_ be used as a primer on such training.
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All while Obama walks away from Benghazi and four dead American's smelling like a rose.
ReplyDeleteAnybody who thinks that confidential tactics, techniques, procedures, or other such trade secrets were disclosed is clearly not familiar with these modern military shooter games. Even somebody like me who has zero military experience can see that these games have at best a cartoonish resemblance to reality. If you doubt me, go to YouTube and see for yourself.
ReplyDeleteWhat is more likely is that the men in question disclosed details of past covert operations that were used to design the story and setting of the game's single player campaign.
Likely. Still, my question stands. Come on, it's a primer of conspiracy theory movies: nobody even knows the conspiracy exists until people start dying. Same idea: they just guaranteed sales [ehem... downloads] for that game half the world around.
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