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To: DiogenesLamp
This was posted on the other thread. https://www.army.mil/article-amp/64655/kraken_provides_needed_intelligence_force_protection_at_nie

The "Kraken" being described here is a defensive radar system. It was used once for a training event at Fort Huachuca. Special operators aren't going to be operating a defensive radar system, and nobody is going to call the key aspect of an offensive operation the utilization of a defensive radar system. If you can suspend disbelief for a moment, military units and defense contractors like to give fearsome and clever nicknames to all sorts of things, and as a fearsome mythical beast, there's probably three or four hundred pieces of equipment, software projects, and absurdly modified pickup trucks present throughout the military and defense establishment nicknamed "the kraken". Hell, there's probably a supply sergeant in Darmstadt who calls his morning bathroom break after a weekend on the town "the Kraken" and the privates in the motor pool all pass their afternoons telling tales of it just to fight off boredom.

Y'all got to get a grip people, this is absurd.

196 posted on 11/29/2020 12:35:10 PM PST by jz638
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To: jz638
I made a mistake. I saw it posted in the context of a military intelligence group and I briefly scanned it before posting it.

I should have read it more thoroughly. It clearly has nothing to do with the 305.

229 posted on 11/29/2020 6:58:04 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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