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Originally Posted by RNajarian
. . . Loose Lips Sink Ships.
Operations Security (OPSEC) Is a process that identifies critical information to determine if friendly actions can be observed by enemy intelligence, determines if information obtained by adversaries could be interpreted to be useful to them, and then execute selected measures that illuminate or reduce adversary exultation a friendly critical information
Actually if you were going to go after an aircraft carrier THIS is the opportune time, chaos, uncertainty, etc etc ... but that is only my 25 years of uniformed service opinion.
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This ship is often in port at Guam, where it is protected by a huge arsenal at naval Base Guam, not to mention Anderson AFB. Every person on Guam certainly knows where the ship is. An aircraft carrier isn't exactly a small target and has the protection of a carrier battle group that accompanies it.
OPSEC is just a lame reason to justify dismissing a CO who is concerned about close to 4K of sailors and the ultimate need to keep the the ship operational. After all, what good does a carrier do for us if it can't be manned?
Not everything is political. Sometimes we just have to do the right thing for our servicemen and women.