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US military families receiving 'menacing' messages: 'Leave the Middle East. Go back to your country'
Fox News ^ | January 15 2020 | Brie Stimson

Posted on 01/15/2020 11:05:50 PM PST by knighthawk

Relatives of U.S. paratroopers deployed to Kuwait earlier this month, amid heightening tensions with Iran, have been receiving “menacing” messages on social media, prompting an alert this week from the U.S. Army to family members of service members, according to reports.

The 82nd Airborne Division out of Fort Bragg, N.C., reminded family members to limit who is able to see social media posts after some received pro-Iranian messages that in one message warned them to “Go back to your country," according to The Military Times.

“Families have reported instances where they have received unsolicited contact with some menacing messaging,” Lt. Col. Mike Burns, a division spokesman, told The Times.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: middleeast; military

1 posted on 01/15/2020 11:05:50 PM PST by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

Track the posts, send out the mercs.


2 posted on 01/15/2020 11:37:50 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: TigersEye

Tokyo Rose meet Muzzie Martha


3 posted on 01/16/2020 12:12:21 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true.... I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: knighthawk

F’ing Democrats!


4 posted on 01/16/2020 12:31:24 AM PST by Dogbert41 (Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord!)
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To: knighthawk; CodeToad

PERSEC training is now given to every GI & they’re immediate family ..... Sadly the training can’t help em if they don’t adhere to the process.

Good stuff to adopt and use ....
AES 256 encrypted email from Proton-mail or Tor-mail.
Signal App on Android or Iphone
VPN’s PIA or Nord are good
Tails OS that leaves nothing on your hard drive
Tor
I2P https://geti2p.net/en/


5 posted on 01/16/2020 1:50:56 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: knighthawk

Can America and Canada follow suit? It would be a mass exodus, and would pay off the national debt.


6 posted on 01/16/2020 2:07:44 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: knighthawk

If they don’t want us there... Let’s leave and put them on the border...


7 posted on 01/16/2020 2:55:16 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: knighthawk

Oh for God sake, what are we made of, jello? Man up, people. Your relative is in the United States military, not working at a florist shop. Act appropriately.


8 posted on 01/16/2020 4:27:50 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: knighthawk
Response:

"You first!"

9 posted on 01/16/2020 4:31:34 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: knighthawk

Yankee go home...


10 posted on 01/16/2020 4:57:15 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: JudyinCanada

Fine by me. We shouldn’t be where we’re not wanted or appreciated. We leave there and they can get the heck outta the US.


11 posted on 01/16/2020 6:07:05 AM PST by bgill
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To: Squantos

People think being overseas is an outing of Selfie importance. Simple rule: Nothing electronic of photographic that gives away that you are there.


12 posted on 01/16/2020 6:22:53 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: CodeToad

Yep, agree ...... used to study photos , window / door latches, electrical outlets, plumbing and even colors or furniture styles or what was outside a window to determine architecture style in specific locations or countries. Example being a lot of data can be gleamed from casual photography shared or possessed .....


13 posted on 01/16/2020 8:42:33 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Squantos

As preached to my teams, keep to the story, so what’s your role doing on a military installation in that photo, ya big dummy.


14 posted on 01/16/2020 9:55:25 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Squantos

My old unit released info about a deployment to Poland. I commented about OPSEC, and the unit said it was OK because they released the info.

SMH


15 posted on 01/16/2020 1:08:34 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Political Science degrees, so easy Obama has one.)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

Understand but YOU and others like you know it’s about your families safety ..... more them than you. Enemy nations want to go after the soft target in my experience.

Stay Safe Trooper !


16 posted on 01/16/2020 2:55:15 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: CodeToad

LOL !


17 posted on 01/16/2020 2:56:24 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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