This whole thing about the Minecraft Papers doesn't sound right to me. Maybe other former military can chime in. I served in the regular Air Force for six years. The last four years I had a Top Secret codeword clearance. We had lots of time on midnight shifts to scrounge through the reports and data available to us. It was VERY compartme…
This whole thing about the Minecraft Papers doesn't sound right to me. Maybe other former military can chime in. I served in the regular Air Force for six years. The last four years I had a Top Secret codeword clearance. We had lots of time on midnight shifts to scrounge through the reports and data available to us. It was VERY compartmentalized. The only thing halfway sensitive were various codebooks and frequency schedules, and some slightly out-of-date info on enemy aircraft. How in the world does a junior Air National Guard member have access to Joint Chiefs of Staff memos and reports and CIA analysis summaries. There's no way that would be possible. What am I missing? Admittedly, my service was back a few years, but it can't have changed that much. Other opinions?
It’s been decades since I served. I remember the background checks and the criteria for getting top secret clearance. I was offered a coding breaking MOS. Being young and stupid, I decided I didn’t want to listen to a bunch of beeps all day. Things are significantly more sophisticated these days.
I too have a very hard tine believing that a junior national guard was able to get that much information unless everyone was asleep at the wheel.
Thank you--exactly my thoughts when I first heard of this. 21 year old? Unless, of course---he was a trans....then he'd be eligible for all sorts of promotion bennies, wouldn't he?
Completely wrong. 21 year old lower enlisted air force reservists aren’t tasked with putting together strategic intel briefs for the CIA and command authority.
You’re full of shit. I’m a retired army officer of 23 years. You were not briefing shit buy maybe your tank crew. But please, continue to spew nonsense about how in the know you are because you drove a tank.
This whole thing about the Minecraft Papers doesn't sound right to me. Maybe other former military can chime in. I served in the regular Air Force for six years. The last four years I had a Top Secret codeword clearance. We had lots of time on midnight shifts to scrounge through the reports and data available to us. It was VERY compartmentalized. The only thing halfway sensitive were various codebooks and frequency schedules, and some slightly out-of-date info on enemy aircraft. How in the world does a junior Air National Guard member have access to Joint Chiefs of Staff memos and reports and CIA analysis summaries. There's no way that would be possible. What am I missing? Admittedly, my service was back a few years, but it can't have changed that much. Other opinions?
It’s been decades since I served. I remember the background checks and the criteria for getting top secret clearance. I was offered a coding breaking MOS. Being young and stupid, I decided I didn’t want to listen to a bunch of beeps all day. Things are significantly more sophisticated these days.
I too have a very hard tine believing that a junior national guard was able to get that much information unless everyone was asleep at the wheel.
You’re spot on. E-3s in Air Force reserve units don’t get CIA strategic intel dumps. It’s asinine to think they would.
That's his job. Well, was. Now he's going to spend most of his life breaking rocks.
Thank you--exactly my thoughts when I first heard of this. 21 year old? Unless, of course---he was a trans....then he'd be eligible for all sorts of promotion bennies, wouldn't he?
He was an intel analyst. That's his job.
People post 9/11 complained that everything was too compartmentalized and not enough intel sharing was going on.
So they fixed that.
Completely wrong. 21 year old lower enlisted air force reservists aren’t tasked with putting together strategic intel briefs for the CIA and command authority.
21 year old enlisted **are** tasked with sorting data and doing other things.
I was in the armored field.
I was giving briefs to Colonels, Generals, and majors as a lowly NCO.
You’re full of shit. I’m a retired army officer of 23 years. You were not briefing shit buy maybe your tank crew. But please, continue to spew nonsense about how in the know you are because you drove a tank.
I absolutely was.
I'll be sure to tell them that it's not a briefing.
I also didn't have a tank crew comprised of a general, colonel, and a major.
I was on a battalion level staff billet.
What did you do in the Marine Corp? Apparently it wasn’t intel.