Re: Loose Lips Sink Ships!
Hmm,
This information about where US forces are located in peacetime, what units are located at given bases, and even what those units are supposedly doing is not a secret in any way shape or form. Its freely available information. All one has to do is use the Internet, read certain publications at a library or if you are near such a base, listen to the local news. Fort Bragg as well as other bases have been on high levels of alert for weeks and months. Base and force protection has certainly been boosted as a concern and in actuality since the USS Cole was attacked.
Paper and broadcast outlets near bases provide lots of information during their reports. Having said that they do not know which units deploy. Especially Special Forces units. A Marine unit boarded ship on a regularly scheduled deployment. It was broadcast all over the place. Anyone who really wants to know this stuff can easily find out about these types of deployments. BUT just because they have been deployed or left their bases does not mean one knows where they are going or what they are going to do. Its hard to keep quiet when large numbers of people are moving through or from a community.
Now maybe the deployment information SHOULD be kept secret but at the moment it is not. Certainly which units are kept at which base is not secret information. With the exception of the Delta Team/Force and some other special ops units. They just dont exist! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
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Dan McCarty