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here are some FACTS:
- the majority of the folks here do not have security clearances
- of those with clearances, probably half have never seen secret/top secret documents
- the DoD marks everything even unclassified material that is not considered "general knowledge" or "public domain", ie: UNCLASSIFIED/FOUO, EXPORT CONTROLLED, etc
- the process to get a camera onto a Navy base typically requires approval from the CO/XO, and usually they review the photos prior to you leaving OR your escort will tell you what NOT to take pictures of
- OPSEC is extremely overused by the firearms community as some sort of neat "buzzword", civilians also like to misuse terms like "classified", "secret", "top secret", etc. It makes them feel like James Bond or something.
to the OP, if the internet wasn't the single LARGEST source of MISinformation, it would come as no surprise at all that the M16/M4 (and in this case their cousin the MK12 SPR) was as durable as Luttrell reports.
Um, it's really easy to take cameras onto NAS Jacksonville. I've been on base many times with my
cell phone.
I have been on Burke's where the CO has let us take pictures and videos of all sorts of shit... as soon as we pulled into port, the naval base was like no fucking way, cameras are verbotten, they sanitized our photos before letting us off the base, and then we had to keep the cameras in our hotel room...
when i was on LCS1 i was in radio surfing the web on my iphone looking up the specs of the USS Elrod that was sitting next to us in port...
then again at NAVSEA in DC i can't even get into the building with a personally owned cell phone...
if the location was so "secret" and no one was allowed to have pictures, it would be clearly posted at all entrances and the security checkpoints wouldn't even allow a camera into that section of the building...
furthermore, assuming SMGLee has a clearance and a proper visit request, he would more than likely still need an escort into an armory which i believe would be a restricted access area (RAA) or a secure room (SR) by Navy definition.
if somehow between the CO, MPs, and an authorized escort, he left with material in violation of OPSEC, there is a huge failure in base security, and if this was TRULY an issue, I would have read something about it on SIPR, since we get a summary of all the incident reports at all naval installations...
Again, I've been on NAS Jax with cameras many times and no one has ever cared. I even had a camera phone aboard a Navy ship helping a buddy get all his stuff out of the hold. No one cared. Also, that meant I was on NS Mayport with a camera phone and no one cared. I'm also just a civilian. It's really easy to be places one theoretically isn't supposed to be on the Navy bases around here. I will say I have the common sense to not take pictures of things and I don't touch the stuff marked "secret."