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To: ClearCase_guy

It think it is always good to keep in mind the possibility that the military investigative services might be more interested in finding a bug to put a pin through than in making sure they have the right bug!

Not saying they will, but...wise to consider.


13 posted on 06/14/2019 9:51:51 AM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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To: rlmorel

In the late 1980’s I was the senior investigator, (military), on an aircraft carrier. Because of the size of the ship, NIS, (later name changed to NCIS), had an agent assigned to the ship.

When ever there was a crime such as a major robbery, assault resulting in major injuries, etc., I was required to report the crime to the NIS agent for him to decide if he was going to investigate it. Many times he would decline.

One case was a robbery of the ship store daily receipts of around $15,000. The ship store custodian and his supervisor were assaulted in a passageway and robbed by two masked sailors. The ship was at sea and not scheduled to hit port for another six weeks.

Th NIS agent declined to investigate because there was no obvious way to identify the culprits. I took the case on and after 45 days had developed information that led to searching of a storage box in a secluded storeroom and recovering the stolen money and arresting the two sailors involved.

The NIS agent then demanded that the Captain order me to give him the case file, remove my name from it as the lead investigator and designate him with that title. The Captain refused and I eventually got a conviction by court martial through the base Legal Office, (JAG).

NIS agents are not the brightest bulbs, especially once the Navy decided that they all had to have college degrees in order to qualify for the job.


43 posted on 06/14/2019 5:45:38 PM PDT by usnavy_cop_retired (Retiree in the P.I. living as a legal immigrant)
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