The U.S. Air Force Lost 12 Years Of Investigations Thanks To A Corrupted Computer File

Foxtrot Alpha ^ | June 14, 2016 | Andrew P Collins

[gaijin]

Our leaders LEAD and this is the followers FOLLOWING.

If the guys at the very top keep setting examples, is it really ANY surprise that eventually people further down the chain will FOLLOW that example..?

But really:

REAL fairness would be *airmen trainees* also pulling stuff like this.

Venezuelan Air Force here we come?

Sure seems like it.

[gaijin]

[TexasRepublic]

Something very incompetent or very rotten is going on. Some IT heads should roll, and probably some management’s too.

[M Kehoe]

The Airforce is investigating why they lost the investigations?

Charlie foxtrot.

5.56mm

[Fhios]

Along with the files, they lost the information on exactly who the IT operators and managers were. :/

[hal ogen]

This is probably purposeful to cover up illegality by the pols and their supporters in the USAF. Didn't these overpaid IT people ever hear of multiple, frequent backups? They should be fired and return their last 10 years of pay. What incompetence...or purposeful hiding of evidence. We have a criminal government with many criminals ensconced.

[Psalm 144]

“...lost, with no backup anywhere? Really?”

Doesn’t pass the smell test, does it?

[Axenolith]

Probably cheaper to get a copy from the Chinese...

[dfwgator]

Maybe the Wikileaks folks can give them the files.

[corbe]

I certainly believe this.

USAF 70-74
UNIVAC 1050-II

[Brookhaven]

“The U.S. Air Force Inspector General tracks all their investigations on fraud, abuse, and everything else down to office disputes in a database maintained by Lockheed Martin. Now it looks like somebody broke it, destroying data collected since 2004.”

I call BS.

Every database administrator I’ve ever dealt with was absolutely paranoid about doing backups.

* You WILL back up your data on a regular (as in daily) schedule.

* You WILL store copies of backups at an offside facility.

The idea that an organization like the Air Force—at this point in computing history—would lose a database is ludicrous.

Something’s getting covered up here by an intentional destruction of this database. The story that they lost the DB is false.

[Red Badger]

Air Force can't handle clouds.......😀

[MrBambaLaMamba]

H1B Jihadi IT Services?

[M Kehoe]

“This is probably purposeful ...”

You are probably correct. Sad.

5.56mm

[wtd]

Just a glitch, eh? This administration is getting really prolific with these 'glitches'...

• On 'Hannity,' Philip Haney, DHS whistleblower claims agency scrubbed records

[wastoute]

Was info on Clinton’s Sec. Brown plane crash on there? Case closed. Nothing to see here folks...

[Paladin2]

You nailed this one.

[Iron Munro]

Important records and data are safely stored as digital files on computers throughout the USA.

Nothing can go wr$%6*&#%$

Nothing can go wr$%6*&#%$

Nothing can go wr$%6*&#%$

[fella]

[Iron Munro]

Didn't these overpaid IT people ever hear of multiple, frequent backups?

I would bet a one year supply of Chick-Fil-A deluze Chicken Sandwiches that there are written procedures in place requiring just that and spelling out in the most minute, excrutiating detail how and when backups are to be done.

If there is one thing the military is good at it is establishing Standard Operating Procedures for every imaginable action and activity.

That leads me to think that previous posters who think it is an intentional inside job are on the right path.