Posted on 03/29/2015 6:36:49 AM PDT by PROCON
The U.S. Army has issued a worldwide urgent “security awareness message” to soldiers on how to protect their social media accounts, and their homes, from attacks by the Islamic State terrorists or other extremists.
The message lists over a dozen safety steps, including to make sure personnel check the door peephole before letting someone in their homes, to fortify doors, to hold family meetings on security and to greatly tone down social media postings so terrorists do not know personal connections or daily comings and goings.
The Army issued the warning on Friday in reaction to the Islamic State, also called ISIL and ISIS, publishing the names of 100 U.S. military personnel as targets for assassination.
The message said that ISIL’s hackers division procured the names and addresses by sifting through social media [presumably Facebook and Twitter] and finding professional and personal connections among users.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Stay locked and loaded.
I was just gonna say, did it include the roe’s of not chambering a round? Act subservient to stave off any hostile actions?
If my son or daughter were at the age of being subject to military service, I’d do everything in my power to keep them from doing so.
If your country can ‘trust’ a soldier to carry a weapon in the midst of enemy savages, why won’t it allow its soldiers to protect themselves where they are most vulnerable?
Nope, not even.
Indeed, issuing weapons to all off base troops would send a real meassage, but that would require actually having weapons to issue.
Of course, a service member can’t even carry their own weapon to and fromwork, as the base is a “gun free” zone.
Correct.
This warning is what - two weeks late? Better late than never probably but what good will any of it do? Guess they expect the families will stay locked inside their homes and give up school, jobs, church etc.
I have been contacting my friends on FB about their wall pictures of themselves in the ‘sandbox’. A lot of them have taken them down.
whats the sand box...middle east?
Yes (Iraq and Afghanistan)
If I was active or retired I would yank all accounts..Stuff is useless and dangerous in all respects IMOP
You beat me to it. LOL!
Disclaimer: Kill lists are a bad thing and I would never EVER advocate such things...
Shame our military families are dealing with this threat, BUT, informational lists are good, too. I believe everyone should investigate the rulers & enforcers in their AO.
I like knowing not only where my local .gov feeders live, but where they vacation, where their kids go to school, where their parents live, their friends & associates, their pets, where they shop, their habits, etc.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Ancestry, etc...a wealth of informational easy pickings. Folks sure love to share these days, and I don’t have to break laws & secretly spy on anyone to get that info.
Just yesterday, an innocent/concerned neighbor phone call to my local PD revealed that the folks 3 houses away are on vacation & their house is sitting empty. Good to know the cops will tell anyone who asks that your house is an easy theft target.
NSA & every government agency has our info, why shouldn’t it be reciprocal?
AGAIN, I don’t advocate Keyser Soze justice; at the same time, there’s nothing wrong with “watchers” being “watched”.
A friend of mine in the Air Force came back from Afghanistan about 6-7 months ago and he was given the warning then.
We are Retired Military, hubby was a SCPO. Last year we were told to REMOVE ALL BASE DECALS. Retired and Active Duty for this reason.
So the article is several months LATE.
NO one can carry a weapon on base except those authorized to do so. Gate Guards! This is NOT a Training Base. They were mostly private company, until recently when the Navy Base went back to using Naval Personnel. Now our ID card is scanned with a hand held scanner as well as being Photo ID matched by the gate Guard.
Front gate is closed on the weekends. Only the back gate is open. These changes were a “cost” measure issue.
Only Active Duty with their ID Card and a code can get in the front gate. They are doing more truck searches too.
We are an Inland Naval Base...BUPERS record keepers, Millington, TN.
I remember meeting a guy years ago who said he had been in the Navy and was stationed at one time in TN and I said “what?” Tell your husband his service time is much appreciated as is yours!!! My husband was USAF.
We lived in CA before retiring to GA and we lived between two Marine bases - El Toro and Tustin. The way people came and went from those bases was incredible - no security whatsoever. The girls from nearby towns would meet the Marines at dance clubs and all return to the bases to PARTY! Both bases are gone now.
There was lots of noise but it was welcome and a plus was getting to watch the Blue Angels Air Shows from our patio.
I know it seems strange to have an Inland Naval Base in the heart of the South. It trained mostly Navy Airmen.
Not that way on our Navy base now. Might have been when it was a training base. But when it went BUPERS, paper pushers, all we saw was an increase in Exchange prices to high end goods, and we lost our hospital and base medical. Medical is now only for Active duty. Tricare Prime.
Yes we lined the streets to see the Blue Angels, much easier than going on base.
Strange but true story. We went to Pottsville, TN for the Joey and Rory show at their barn and ate at his sister’s small country cooking restaurant, and met them both there. Rory was stationed as a Marine at the Millington, Naval Air Station back before he went into a music career. Course he and hubby hit it off and talked each others ears off. Real down to earth Christians, and old fashion country music.
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