“I don’t believe the claim of accident, at all.”
Your guess is as good as mine. I guess my opinion is informed by a general lack-of-faith in the basic competency of state governments.
I can confirm an Ageis cruiser did go to general quarters during the alert-and THAAD on the island went up operational as well.
Someone asked about "general quarters" and did it mean manning battle stations, answer:
Exactly correct. Every soldier goes to battle stations, watertight compartments are sealed off to prevent the ship from sinking if hit, and damage control parties take their stations in various parts of the ship.
Second person:
I know people who work in places that set off alarms and messages like these . If the systems are like the ones here, to set off a siren its 3 to 5 actions depending if the system is on. and a media message takes 5 to 7 steps including 2 secure log ons.
THAAD is, according to wikipedia:
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), formerly Theater High Altitude Area Defense, is an American anti-ballistic missile defense system designed to shoot down short, medium, and intermediate range ballistic missiles in their terminal phase (descent or reentry) by intercepting with a hit-to-kill approach.[2][3] THAAD was developed after the experience of Iraq's Scud missile attacks during the Gulf War in 1991.[4] The THAAD interceptor carries no warhead, but relies on its kinetic energy of impact to destroy the incoming missile. A kinetic energy hit minimizes the risk of exploding conventional warhead ballistic missiles, and the warhead of nuclear tipped ballistic missiles will not detonate on a kinetic energy hit.