This blog post on Navy boot camp being extended is from last year's announcement by the Navy, but this retired sailor had me rolling!

Quote:Lucky Recruits Get 2 Extra Weeks at Boot Camp

If you have been following the news (my condolences) you may have noticed about a thousand articles (or possibly, one article posted a thousand times on social media) reporting that the U.S. Navy boot camp has been extended from eight to ten weeks of training.  Fortunately, in this ever-divided world, the Navy is finally taking action that cannot possibly be interpreted as a partisan political issue.

Don’t be a moron.  Everything these days is a partisan political issue.  If you watch Fox News, you know that this is part of the plan for the woke military leaders to turn the Navy in to a hippy commune.  On the other hand if you watch CNN, you realize that this is a vital change to ensure that our sailors aren’t extremist neo-Nazi rapists.  If you watch MSNBC, you probably have a long stream of drool puddling in your lap.  No matter where you look, you can see the military’s public image is doing well.

I for one support this new plan.  Why, you may ask?  Because I, like so many retired sailors, realize that it in no way affects me. 

What’s going to happen during these additional two weeks?  That’s a great question.  The focus is on preparing sailors for the fleet.  Now I know what you are thinking, “Isn’t that what the other eight weeks are for?” 

Don’t be stupid.  The first eight weeks of boot camp are devoted to marching, making your bunk 47 times a day, and doing pushups as a punishment for not marching well or making your bunk correctly.  Also there are classes on naval culture and procedures and some uniform inspections.

With all this vital training there is no spare time to teach recruits what they need to know in the fleet.  Initially the plan was to make boot camp even longer.  At the planning stage they wanted to lengthen boot camp to 20 years and at the end, instead of graduation, there would be a retirement ceremony.

But the question still remains, what is the important training that will take place in the additional two weeks?  To answer that we turn to the Navy Times, the source of all naval wisdom for those who don’t know how to look up instructions.  According to the Navy Times this time will be utilized for the “Sailor for Life” module, which is a retention tool designed to ensure that all graduates reenlist.  As part of the training all sailors will be implanted with a microchip that will provide an electric shock any time they think about getting out.

Okay, that’s not 100% true.  It turns out that the Sailor for Life module contains training on sexual harassment/assault prevention, suicide prevention, anti-hazing, organization, financial management, and time management.  Since this is basically the same training sailors in the fleet attend at regular intervals, it is perfect for preparing new recruits for their first assignment.  Although the article doesn’t mention it, I like to think that the module incorporates simulated ATG assessments, underway schedules, watch rotations, 3M maintenance, etc. throughout the day while sandwiching the training in the middle as the instructor speed reads 150 slides to a half-awake audience.

The fact is, sailors need this training in the fleet, and the last thing the Navy wants is new sailors reporting for duty without the basic ability to attend this training without falling asleep.  We train the way we fight.

The only problem with the Sailor for Life module, is I don’t think it covers everything.  The U.S. Navy is a complex organization with many nuances that are confusing to new recruits.  With just a couple additional weeks the curriculum could be expanded to include the following essential subjects:
-Where to find all the 400 million instructions and references (from the Defense Department, the Navy, your region, your fleet, your squadron, your command, your department, etc.) that regulate every part of your life.  There are four people in the Navy who know where all of these are.

-How to set Yoke.  (Everyone not in the engineering department is guessing).

-How to draft an outgoing message (ask the ITs to do it for you).
-How to conduct drills without waking up the air detachment personnel, who require 16 hours of sleep.
-What to do if the shower curtain touches you (report to medical immediately, they may have to amputate).
-What to do if you take a shower without shower shoes (get your affairs in order).
-What you should say at captain’s call when they ask if there are any questions (nothing).
-What to do when you are late for watch (apologize profusely, offering up your first born as a sign of contrition).
-What to do when you wake up naked in a foreign prison with a hangover (pray).
-How to make more money by marrying someone you just met.

I’m sure I’m leaving out something here.  If you have any ideas let me know and we’ll send them off to the Navy.  Remember, boot camp is ten weeks now, but with a little imagination we can round it out to a solid three months (or more).

Sea Stories and Other Lies

WASHINGTON STATE a tropical garden of Eden... with a giant serpent who consumed an entire tribe?!



Above is a clip from his ANOMALOUS AMERICA Episode 2 on Washington state
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cke0gPNS9h0

A new research report from the RAND boys on Havana Syndrome, The Solarwinds cyberattack, & The Chinese mafia that examines three national security threats that had "uncertain origins" suggesting that US officials are leaking info on Havana Syndrome intended to implicate Russia as the culprit.

Interestingly, the report takes an contradictory position on the condition itself, arguing that it could be some kind of perception management operation, undertaken by an adversary, of course.

Excerpt from page 5:

Quote:Regardless of whether a state actor was responsible, the potency of a threat like Havana Syndrome is primarily in the uncertainty it creates for U.S. government personnel deployed abroad and the bureaucratic time and energy that U.S. diplomatic and intelligence agencies must spend trying to muster a response with little information. Whether or not Havana Syndrome is a global phenomenon, whether it affected only two dozen people, or whether it affected no one at all is, in some ways, not the most important thing. An adversary needs only to create the perception that it has the ability to clandestinely use technology to harm U.S. personnel at U.S. embassies around the world for such a coercive attack to have its desired effect.

Quote:However, even with imperfect attribution, U.S. officials may use private threats to articulate precisely what they are reacting to and what they will do in response if the suspected behavior does not stop. For example, when CIA Director William Burns traveled to Moscow in December 2021, he raised the issue of the health incidents and said, “if Russia was found responsible, there would be consequences.”

Quote:In the case of Havana Syndrome or incidents with similar characteristics, the IC does not have information connecting the incidents to a perpetrator it feels sufficiently confident in to release publicly. The government may also be reluctant to release too much information to the public because doing so could reveal techniques for detecting and countering the attacks. If the government suspected an adversary in the attacks but did not have information to definitively accuse them publicly, U.S. officials could accuse the actor privately and leak that fact that they blamed them publicly—potentially the thinking behind New York Times reporting of CIA Director Burns’ private threat to Moscow on Havana Syndrome. In this way, the target could potentially gain some of the benefits of naming and shaming without having to admit outright that they were not fully confident in their accusation.

Quote:Demonstrators who participated in Hong Kong’s prodemocracy Umbrella Movement in 2014 were also attacked by alleged Chinese mafia members. The Chinese government has reportedly employed organized crime affiliates to similar effect in Taiwan, Australia, and Mainland China.

Chinese organized crime is also active in the international narcotics trade. The Chinese government does not disrupt the mafia’s control of the production and distribution of fentanyl’s precursors to other countries, including the United States (via Mexico), and Chinese organized crime is also central to trade-based money laundering schemes.

Beijing has disavowed any direct relationship with these groups and is, in fact, claims to be targeting Chinese mafia affiliates operating abroad via Chinese Ministry of State Security operations.

Despite these claims, it is clear that the Chinese government benefits from these groups, leveraging their networks to wield political inf luence abroad and also to support legitimate economic activity.

While target governments can pursue and prosecute criminal groups operating within their countries, assistance from the Chinese government is essential to cutting off domestic sources of funding and support. Beijing is reluctant to do so unless its direct economic or security interests are at stake. For example, through its legal front operations, Chinese organized crime provides services to Chinese businesses abroad connected with government officials and the Chinese Communist Party.

Motivation:
The Chinese mafia’s criminal activities typically align with the government’s own economic and organizational interests, making it difficult to determine whether the criminal networks are following Beijing’s directions.

You may have already seen this docu, "Standing with Stones" when it was released on DVD some 15 years ago. I happened to discover its full 135 minute glory is on YouTube. Written and presented by Rupert Soskin, and directed and produced by Michael Bott, it takes you on a tour of a huge number of megalithic sites, starting in the south of England, up through Wales, across to Ireland and the Isle of Man, then through North England and up into Scotland and the Scottish Isles. One of the major takeaways from the film is that the mystery of megalithic sites isn’t isolated to just a few well-known monuments…there are an astounding number of these monuments dotting the landscape – most of which I was not aware. Soskin’s approach of embracing academic knowledge while also feeling free to speculate, but being clear that he is not an expert and viewers should therefore not take any speculative theories as fact:



"I’m not an academic and I don’t claim to be an expert, but I have been exploring primitive cultures and prehistoric sites for many years now. The plus side of that is that whilst embracing current archeological knowledge and theories, it does also give me the freedom to offer some contentious ideas from time to time without getting the sack. The downside of that of course is that sometimes I might be talking rubbish, who knows? The purpose of this film is not to give a history lesson about our Neolithic and Bronze Age ancestors, but to explore and experience what they left behind, and as we travel across the British Isles maybe we can shed some light on these mysterious places and the people who built them."

Quote:00:00 Intro, titles & preamble
03:36 1. The West Country & Dartmoor
20:13 2. Southern England
41:25 3. Wales
57:41 4. Ireland
1:16:15 5. The Isle of Man & Northern England
1:39:45 6. Scotland
1:57:47 7. The Scottish Isles

Two years in the making, Standing with Stones is a remarkable feature length documentary film that takes the viewer on an epic journey of discovery, way beyond the Wiltshire monuments and Stonehenge, uncovering the true extent and variety of megalithic Britain and Ireland.

Featuring 100 of the most significant megalithic monuments in England, Wales, Ireland, N. Ireland & Scotland, the adventure starts near Land's End in Cornwall and ends out on the Scottish isles, on Orkney, at the Tomb of the Eagles.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is pissed off (or maybe fake outrage) about Biden making a deal with Speaker McCarthy over the debt deal.

Whining Hakeem is screaming because Democrats are getting nothing !! ROFLOL

So why is he politicizing something that needs to benefit everybody? 

I think there's a good chance Biden and Democrats have a smear plan in the making.

This anger and shouting is all part of some new plan to screw over the Public. They ARE experts afterall 


McCarthy: Jeffries Said There’s ‘Not One Thing in the Bill for Democrats’

Quote:Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) told him that Democrats don’t see “one thing” in the debt ceiling deal in their favor.

Anchor Shannon Bream asked, “Have you talked to Minority Leader Jeffries? Sounds like he will bring Democrat votes to the table. What is your conversation like with him about getting this across the finish line?”

McCarthy said, “I wanted Congress to work differently and treat Hakeem the way I wanted to be treated. We can disagree, I want him to know about everything. Everything is not political. Every time there is agreement and negotiation between the president and Congress, both parties come together and vote for the bill. Both of them talk about it. I don’t work with Hakeem to say, I need this many votes, I think you will get a majority voting for the bill because it is a good bill. The president agreed. There will be a lot of Democrats that will vote for it.”

He added, “Right now the Democrats are very upset. But one thing Hakeem told me, there’s nothing in the bill for them. There’s not one thing in the bill for Democrats.”

(Note: Originally written on the 4th of July 2020, and posted to the old RN3 site)

Specialist Four Charles Gorman examined himself in the small mirror.  Uniform pressed - check.  Gig line straight - check.  Brass and shoes polished - check.  To his right, the window offered a view of a regimented society within a regimented society -- a United States Army barracks in West Germany.  On the grass beside a sidewalk, a small sign offered terse warning:

I saw this and wondered of it's interesting or not.




The 'Dead Man's Code' taken from the FBI site.

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Since the chatGPT-4 got a lot discussion i thought i add this video here . It`s about the recent paper published about GPT-4.






The paper  ( .PDF ) :

Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4


9 Societal influences  in that paper was what interest me, and 9.2 Misinformation and manipulation . 

I get the feeling ( again ) that this will be used in way that is harmfull for us .


Edit:  i just noticed the video is 2 Months old, and not so new as thought....anyway it`s interesting still ?

It`s bit difficult to identify what exactly is wrong , or feels wrong with the board , i just feel it could have more clarity...to make reading more enjoyable experience .

And if everyone else feels that it`s all good now as it is, then just ignore my request .


It`s maybe too dark ? 


I dont like too white either, so all white is not what i want 


Sorry....i dont know what i want

Quote:US Nuclear Secrets At Risk From Insider Threats With Devastating Consequences: Report



U.S. nuclear secrets are at risk from insider attacks, owing to the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) lack of security, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

“The DOE has not implemented seven required measures for its Insider Threat Program, even after independent reviewers made nearly 50 findings and recommendations to help DOE fully implement its program,” the report says.

...

Incidents

There were about 250 unclassified insider threat-related security incidents in 2017, the most recent data from DOE, according to the report. The incidents included sending classified information over unclassified systems, leaving security areas unattended, and not properly protecting classified information.

“DOE considered about 100 of those incidents to be serious,” the report says.

The report pointed to a 2017 criminal case, when Grigory Trosman was sentenced to 18 months in prison for accepting at least $469,287 in bribes in exchange for official acts he performed while at the DOE.

“From approximately 2002 through March 2014, Trosman used his official position in various capacities to assist co-conspirators and various companies to obtain access to federal research funding and contract work in Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine,” the Department of Justice said in a press release.

A 2022 report by strategic intelligence firm Strider Technologies found that China has hired at least 162 researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) over the last 35 years. Many of these researchers went on to conduct military research for China, including deep-earth penetrating warheads, hypersonic missiles, and submarine programs.

At least one researcher hired by China previously held Top Secret security clearance at the DOE, according to the report.


In September 2020, a former LANL scientist was sentenced to probation and fined for lying about his participation in a Chinese state-sponsored recruitment program.