OPSEC/INFOSEC in Georgia

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Found this on today's Early Bird, and posted below. The Russians seized several USMC vehicles waiting in port to ship after their training exercise. The vehicles contained commo and satellite equipment in them. We can all guess what systems were in there. Those vehicles are en route to Moscow for examination. If any of you remember the picture of the Strykers being off-loaded in Russia for "inspection" while travelling to Iraq on a Russian contracted aircraft, history repeats itself. Even if these vehicles and equipment were properly escorted by American personnel, there is probably little they could have done to stop the seizure, but we still need to do a better job securing our information and capabilities, and stop giving freebies to the comunazis. OPSEC Officer rant over.

Yahoo.com
August 21, 2008

No Assurances From Moscow On Return Of Humvees: Pentagon


WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States has received no assurances from Russia that it will return US military vehicles seized in Georgia, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday.

Russian forces seized "a handful" of Humvees, four-wheeled all-purpose military vehicles, in the Black Sea port of Poti, where they were awaiting shipment out of Georgia after an exercise, spokesman Bryan Whitman said......