Beauchamp Violates Operational Security By Publishing Scheduled Date of Troop Deployment on Public Blog

What a terrific soldier! I'm sure the US military counts itself lucky to have picked up such a highly qualified, motivated, organization-enhancing recruit.

Obviously, they've been pretty damn high on this guy. In just the short span of a year and a half this college graduate (? -- at least he was spotted on a college from time to time) managed to be promoted all the way up to Private. I think that's somewhere between the ranks of full-bird colonel and Hard Ass Heartbreaker and Life-Taker, First Class.

The Washington Post actually wrote to Major Kirk Luedeke to inquire if this was a violation of OPSEC. His answer:

It most certainly is an OPSEC violation.

Wait, did I say the Washington Post bothered to follow-up on this? I meant blogger Bob Owens. It's hard to tell the MSM and bloggers apart from each other anymore, except, I guess, it's the bloggers who actually check facts and refrain from publishing rumors until they're confirmed and the MSM which runs with whatever bullshit floats across their transom.

Thanks to dri.

posted by Ace at 08:48 PM

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