Thursday, July 15, 2010
New Orders!!!!!!!
Today we got quite the shock of our lives. We got our new duty station orders. They are for the Ike in Norfolk, Va and we move in 2 short months. Yeah, got to love the short amount of time the navy gives you to get a move ready for cross country. Luckily we've been feeling that we would be doing a big move this time around and now we know just how far it will be. We're quite honestly in shock over this news. We'd been joking for weeks that we'd get assigned to VA, never thinking it would come true. Yeah that's what I get for joking around. We're now going to be doing a very big move. The cool thing about this particular move is that we'll be close to most of the Teerlink family and get to know them better. It will deffinantly be different to go from living in the west all of our lives to going clear cross the country. But let the adventure begin, its going to be one wild ride.
Monday, July 12, 2010
OPSEC: And why we take this so seriously
This post is mainly for friends and family who may not realize that the rules I'm always talking about are very, very important to not only Jay's safety but mine as well. Those rules are known as OPSEC: Operational Security. So this post is deticated to helping you all understand why I write things the way I do and why I am very cautious about how I speak.
OPSEC rules:
1). Do not post exact deployment dates or redeployment dates
2). Do not reveal camp locations, location of port visits, including nearby cities. After the deployment is officially announced by Military officials, you may discuss locations that have been released, normally on the Country level.
3). Do not discuss convoy routes (“we travelled through Takrit on our way to X”)
4). Detailed information on the mission, capabilities or morale of a unit
5). Specific names or actual nicknames
6). Personnel transactions that occur in large numbers (Example: pay information, powers of attorney, wills, etc)
7). Details concerning security procedures, response times, tactics
8). Don’t discuss equipment or lack thereof, to include training equipment
9). Don’t speculate about future operations
10). If posting pictures, don’t post anything that could be misconstrued or used for propaganda purposes. A good rule of thumb is to look at your picture without your caption or explanation and consider if it could be re-captioned to reflect poorly on coalition forces. For example, your image might show your Soldier rescuing a child from a blast site, but could be re-captioned to insinuate that the child being captured or harmed. (it’s happened!)
11). Avoid the use of count-up or count-down tickers for the same reason as rule #1
12). be very careful if posting pictures of your loved one. Avoid images that show significant landmarks near their base of operations, and black out last names and unit affiliations
13). Do not, ever, post information about casualties (coalition or enemy) before the official release of the information.
14). Do not pass on rumors (“I heard they’re coming home early”, etc)
15). Posting information in regards to a ship or sub or any other Navy related material that could be of sensitive material, must be posted with the link from the media.
16). When discussing deployments or underways please do not say the EXACT amount of time leading to or counting down (Example: 4 months until he is home). Please put ' x months, x weeks, x days' (Example: x months until he is home). This is the correct way.
17). Duty section/turnovers/etc can be used for malicious intent. Please me cautious in posting in depth information.
http://www.opsecprofessionals.org/ar...SEC_Rules.html
This is the short and sweet version of what Jay and I must follow each and every day of our lives. If you want a better understanding of the rules and are on facebook there is an OPSEC page you can go to. As the saying in the navy goes: Lose lips sink ships. And please we know you love us, but don't ask us for information that neither one of us are willing to share: like deployments, underways ect. We wont put our lives or the lives of those Jay serves with in that type of danger.
OPSEC rules:
1). Do not post exact deployment dates or redeployment dates
2). Do not reveal camp locations, location of port visits, including nearby cities. After the deployment is officially announced by Military officials, you may discuss locations that have been released, normally on the Country level.
3). Do not discuss convoy routes (“we travelled through Takrit on our way to X”)
4). Detailed information on the mission, capabilities or morale of a unit
5). Specific names or actual nicknames
6). Personnel transactions that occur in large numbers (Example: pay information, powers of attorney, wills, etc)
7). Details concerning security procedures, response times, tactics
8). Don’t discuss equipment or lack thereof, to include training equipment
9). Don’t speculate about future operations
10). If posting pictures, don’t post anything that could be misconstrued or used for propaganda purposes. A good rule of thumb is to look at your picture without your caption or explanation and consider if it could be re-captioned to reflect poorly on coalition forces. For example, your image might show your Soldier rescuing a child from a blast site, but could be re-captioned to insinuate that the child being captured or harmed. (it’s happened!)
11). Avoid the use of count-up or count-down tickers for the same reason as rule #1
12). be very careful if posting pictures of your loved one. Avoid images that show significant landmarks near their base of operations, and black out last names and unit affiliations
13). Do not, ever, post information about casualties (coalition or enemy) before the official release of the information.
14). Do not pass on rumors (“I heard they’re coming home early”, etc)
15). Posting information in regards to a ship or sub or any other Navy related material that could be of sensitive material, must be posted with the link from the media.
16). When discussing deployments or underways please do not say the EXACT amount of time leading to or counting down (Example: 4 months until he is home). Please put ' x months, x weeks, x days' (Example: x months until he is home). This is the correct way.
17). Duty section/turnovers/etc can be used for malicious intent. Please me cautious in posting in depth information.
http://www.opsecprofessionals.org/ar...SEC_Rules.html
This is the short and sweet version of what Jay and I must follow each and every day of our lives. If you want a better understanding of the rules and are on facebook there is an OPSEC page you can go to. As the saying in the navy goes: Lose lips sink ships. And please we know you love us, but don't ask us for information that neither one of us are willing to share: like deployments, underways ect. We wont put our lives or the lives of those Jay serves with in that type of danger.
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