Posted on Jan 11, 2020
A Marine's cellphone selfie got his whole unit 'killed' during training in California
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A junior Marine got his artillery unit into a serious bind after snapping a photo during a massive force-on-force training exercise in California's Mojave Desert.
Ten thousand troops recently descended on Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms for the biggest training event of its kind in decades. The Marines, sailors, and NATO forces faced drone attacks, cyber breaches and other high-tech challenges during the free-play exercise.
But one team was taken out by a different kind of threat, Lt. Gen. Lori Reynolds, the Marine Corps' deputy commandant of information, told reporters at the Pentagon.
"A Marine in that exercise took a selfie of him being bored," she said. "It showed in that selfie it was an artillery unit. You could go geo-locate him, and you could see what unit it was.
"They were like, 'OK, you guys are dead.'"
Ten thousand troops recently descended on Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms for the biggest training event of its kind in decades. The Marines, sailors, and NATO forces faced drone attacks, cyber breaches and other high-tech challenges during the free-play exercise.
But one team was taken out by a different kind of threat, Lt. Gen. Lori Reynolds, the Marine Corps' deputy commandant of information, told reporters at the Pentagon.
"A Marine in that exercise took a selfie of him being bored," she said. "It showed in that selfie it was an artillery unit. You could go geo-locate him, and you could see what unit it was.
"They were like, 'OK, you guys are dead.'"
A Marine's cellphone selfie got his whole unit 'killed' during training in California
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel I have hung-jaw from the shock of mass stupidity. Everyone is boasting that our military capability is so Superior that we can bring Iran to her knees. But, one cellphone idiot can quickly change that. I blame the leadership at the highest level for being so stupid. To allow electronics during any kind of mission that were not tied into an encrypted communication system, should be a retroactive court marshal of the country's military hierarchy.
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