US Soldiers Flashing Deets

[lurk]

US troops charged with guarding nuclear weapons in Europe used popular education websites to create flash cards, exposing their exact locations and top-secret security protocols, according to the investigative site Bellingcat Friday.

To familiarize themselves with things like which shelters in various locations had "hot" vaults with live nuclear bombs, with security patrol schedules, and with identification badge details, the soldiers created digital flash card sets on apps like Chegg Prep, Quizlet and Cram.

"By simply searching online for terms publicly known to be associated with nuclear weapons, Bellingcat was able to discover cards used by military personnel serving at all six European military bases reported to store nuclear devices," wrote Foeke Postma, the author of the Bellingcat article.


They found one set of 70 flashcards on Chegg, entitled "Study!", which noted the exact shelters containing nuclear weapons at Volkel Air Base in the Netherlands.

"How many WS3 vaults are there on Volkel ab," said the question side of one virtual flash card, referring to the military term for weapons storage and security systems.

"eleven (11)" it read on the answer side.

Another card from the same set indicated that five of the eleven vaults were "hot" with nuclear bombs while the other 6 were "cold," and specified which vaults.

A set of 80 cards on the Cram flashcard site detailed hot and cold vaults at Aviano Air Base in Italy, and revealed how a soldier should respond in activating them based on the different level of alarms they receive.

Other cards exposed secrets at bases in Turkey, Belgium and Germany. Some detailed the location of security cameras; others gave the secret "duress words" that a soldier, perhaps seized by attackers, would say over a phone to indicate he had been taken prisoner.

The flashcards Bellingcat discovered were publicly available as far back as 2013, and some were being used as recently as April 2021.

Bellingcat said those it had viewed appeared to have been removed after it contacted NATO and the US military for comment before it published its article.

There are 6 live nukes in volkel air base, netherlands.

 

[lurk]

now can i have news thread promotion privs back? @.wil @umkemesik

 

[.wil]

Blame viril

 

[lurk]

Blame viril

@Viril.Feline.Wyyzrd you autistic faggot, what did you fuck up this time?

 

[.wil]

He decided to promote baka's garden thread for asspats

 

[.wil]

Also where can I get a copy of these flash cards to study?

 

[lurk]

Also where can I get a copy of these flash cards to study?

according to the article, the devs took them down before the article went up...

 

[SK2.0]

I wonder if the vaults around here are still active. Would be a shame if we lost our 1st wave target status.

 

[Maniac200688thewhitenigr]

He decided to promote baka's garden thread for asspats

Bribing or patronizing Baka always backfires.

 

[Synecdoche]

Wtf I can't believe how computer illiterate the military is overall. Actually just the whole world in general. People really sign up on some website and confess everything like it's some personal diary, ho please lmao

 

[lurk]

Wtf I can't believe how computer illiterate the military is overall. Actually just the whole world in general. People really sign up on some website and confess everything like it's some personal diary, ho please lmao

when the criteria for enlistment is changed from "the best of the best" to "are you institutionally insane and retarded?", really shouldn't expect anything else.