Treason at the Kos? (Report: U.S. Navy Officer in Theater Leaks Iran Attack Details to Kos Diarist)

MacsMind.com ^ | Sunday, Sepember 2, 2007 | Macranger

[USNBandit]

Went back and looked at Lex's website. I think he was a department head in Japan when I was a JO. If it's the guy I'm thinking of he is a really good dude, great pilot, awesome American.

He was always willing to take the extra time to help you if you had a question, even if you weren't in his squadron.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

I agree with your assessment. That is why I think they are going to go after the poster or “diarist” or whatever he is.

[tanknetter]

We are shipping in and assigning every damn Tomahawk we have in inventory

Just another small bit of fuel to add to the BS fire on this claim. The USN loads Tomahawks onto ships before they deploy ... not when they are actually on station. Some of the Aegis ships (Flight II Ticos, maybe some of the early Burkes) have the ability to UNREP Tomahawks - but this capability was removed from later ships to free up additional VLS cells (the UNREP crane took up 3 or 4 cells, iirc) and I don't believe the USN even practices doing this, let alone doing it operationally.

Shipping in and assigning "every damn Tomahawk" would require deploying as many Ticos and Burkes as necessary to carry them. The sort of surge deployment to accomplish this couldn't be kept secret ... and guess is that the Administration would WANT to signal that such a deployment was underway as a warning to Iran to start playing nice-nice. IOW, we'd know about this already ... and not courtesy of some "LSO" sending information to a friend who's posting it on kos.

[traderrob6]

Yep, the galley is a cooking area, an Ensign would eat in the Wardroom.

[USNBandit]

You know what always gets me about the leftist fiction writers that make this stuff up.......They never create a character that is just joe snuffy, the infantryman. They have to create Sgt Rock, AirborneSpecialForcesRangerPathfinderSuperKiller guy. For some reason they think that will make their story more believable.

Had this idiot Kossak created a "pilot friend of mine" aboard CVN-XX going to the Persian Gulf it might have been harder to disprove. Instead this moron puts in a bunch of fake detail, the same crap that tripped up Jesse Macbeth.

[USNBandit]

an Ensign would eat in the Wardroom.

And nobody listens to an ensign.....ever. :)

[Tenniel2]

Very damn well done -- a slam-dunk example of what we used to call doing an "explication de texte," i.e., analyzing a passage from every imaginable angle and drawing the appropriate conclusions.

As a footnote to NLex's dissection, what jumped out at me was the line "... the table got EF Hutton quiet," which is a reference to a TV commercial that ran in the mid-80s. (Two yupscale types are chatting over dinner in a well-populated restaurant, with much clinking of crystal and clatter of silver in the background. First yup: "... that's what my broker says. What does your broker say?" Second yup: "My broker is E.F. Hutton, and E.F. Hutton says..." Instant silence as all the other diners drop their forks and crane their necks to hear what E.F. Hutton says.)

If the "diarist"'s story of the LSO's career is true, you kinda hafta wonder what a subteenage girl was doing watching the sorts of programs sponsored by brokerage houses, and why she remembered the ads 20 years later. My nickel says this piece was written by a fiftysomething male New York academic with a lifelong addiction to the Sunday chatshows.

[fso301]

“I have a friend who is an LSO on a carrier attack group

She said that all the Air Operation Planning and Asset Tasking are finished. That means that all the targets have been chosen, prioritized, and tasked to specific aircraft, bases, carriers, missile cruisers and so forth.

All an LSO is in a position to know is how to signal approaching aircraft.

[SauronOfMordor]

My big question is: how could the supposed leaker could have gotten the info off her ship to the Kos source? I would think that once a ship had gotten orders to prepare for an attack, that communications would be locked down to prevent just such leaks

[Jason_b]

Though they speak farsi, since the islamic conquest, they used arabic letters. So looking at the newspaper it looks a lot like arabic. I wonder what characters pre-arabic-letter farsi used.

Persian NOT Farsi

[doorgunner69]

need some Navy help here (I was Army), but on a large ship isn't a "galley" the kitchen area, where the cooks work, and the "mess" where the crew eats?

Even this old Marine remembers that. We use the same terminology on ashore.

[uncbob]

Enough of this garbage gets circulation and the admin has to deny it—it will weaken their resolve if and when they really have to do it

That is the danger of this type of crappolla and probably its intended purpose

[WinOne4TheGipper]

I think the Krazy Kos Kidz are blowing smoke, like always. Anyone who follows the moonbat websites can show you repeated incidents of them getting all worked up over stuff that always seems to never happen.

[Doctor Raoul]

If you were a Marine, would you be complaining to Emirl....he’s always going “BAM”?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I can believe that one tiny little LSO who thinks her East Podunk U. degree makes her infinity smarter and morally superior her peers and only joined the Navy ‘cause she looked great in blue might think like this.

I knew a career AF officer who was definitely a Clintonista in 1998.

[Grampa Dave]

MI BS Meter is pegging out:

[Don Carlos]

Unless I'm mistaken, LSO duty is assigned to carrier-qualified aviators only. So, how many carrier-qualified female aviators are currently performing as LSO's?

Should be fairly easy to narrow down who may be the culprit. (If there is a culprit).

[lonevoice]

An Officer and Gentleman would not use that expression

And a man who wouldn't immediately apologize to the lady veteran is obviously neither.

Thank you both for your service.

[Lloyd227]

this bs / disinformation, whatever... it doesn't ring true and it's not expressed with the kind of sincerity such a misguided b!$#tch must feel.

It's fake, of one sort another I am sure

[BurbankKarl]

She is totally correct....

hahaha.

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