One thing I have not mentioned in previous blog entries is the concept of operational security. There are certain topics that I cannot discuss on the blog right away because it discloses sensitive information about our present or future location or capabilities. If I talk about stuff like that, some non-friendly person who may be monitoring communication off the ship or even this blog may gather information that can be used against us.
For example, if I said that we have a port call in Hong Kong in exactly five days, someone could use this information to plan a terrorist attack or even to approximate our location in the ocean. The expression some people use is “loose lips sink ships”.
I wanted to write about this because a lot of what I write about will almost always be stuff that has already happened. For example, I did not talk about pulling into Hawaii until I was already there. By that time our location was no longer any big secret. I will also not talk about anything else in the future until it is already common knowledge or has happened.
Most people take e-mail and phone calls for granted. It’s pretty funny when you think about simple stuff military folks have to hold back when doing something as simple as writing a letter or making a phone call.
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