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Pentagon Planners Mull Y2K Sneak Attack
There will be no y2k problems, all problems that HAPPEN to fall in January will be the work of terrorist's. LOL.
-- CygnusXI (noburnt@toast.net), September 21, 1999.
Well... the Navy (the rest of the Dod, and the Marine's and their Warfighting Lab group, et. al.), will no doubt be ready for those "sneak attacks..." uh, landings.SEPTEMBER 20, 1999 . . . 14:42 EDT
Navy Seventh Fleet undertakes Y2K landing exercise
BY BOB BREWIN (antenna@fcw.com)
http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1999/0920/web-y2klanding-09-20- 99.html[Fair Use: For Educational/Research Purposes Only]
The Navy's Seventh Fleet has kicked off an operational Year 2000 exercise on and around Okinawa with eleven ships and thousands of Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, which will conduct an amphibious landing with their clocks rolled forward to the new year.
The amphibious landing, which will involve Marines from the 31st MEU conducting a practice assault with air-cushion landing craft, AV-8 Harrier "jump jets," helicopters and tracked amphibious assault vehicles, will begin Sept. 22 when all participants in the exercise roll their system clocks forward to Dec. 31, 1999.
"Y2K is a top priority of the U.S. Seventh Fleet and is an important readiness issue," a Seventh Fleet spokesman said. "This validation exercise will help the Navy and Marine Corps ensure an uneventful transition to the Year 2000."
Ships participating in the exercise include the Seventh Fleet command ship; the USS Vincennes, a cruiser; and the USS Belleau Wood, an amphibious assault ship, which serves as the floating barracks for the 31st MEU and features a flight deck for aircraft and a well-deck in the stern for landing craft and assault vehicles.
The Belleau Wood, homeported in Sasebo, Japan, features a state-of- the-art Navy Information Technology for the 21st Century fiber-optic communications backbone operating at 155 megabits/sec that hosts ten separate classified networks and eight unclassified networks.
-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), September 21, 1999.
Let me get this straight.There aren't going to be any Y2K problems.
But terrorists are going to exploit us when we are vulnerable because of the non-existant Y2K problems and attack us, trying to make it look like Y2K problems?
Does anyone else have a problem with this?
Keep your...
-- eyes_open (best@wishes.net), September 21, 1999.
BTW... worth a re-read...
OT?: William S. Cohen, Secretary of Defense: Preparing For A Grave New World (USIA)
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id= 0018ov
-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), September 21, 1999.
Why does the thought of having MY OWN Y2K BUNKER sound reasonable all of a sudden ?This stuff is getting pretty hairy.
-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), September 21, 1999.
Hoff says there will be no Y2k problems. The Pentagon is obviously full of stupid doomers.
-- Sarcasm (GI @ or.perish), September 21, 1999.
Hamster:We HAVE our own Y2K bunker! (Left over from WW II). The more I hear and read, the more happy I am with my preparations...and the more I want to do additional...
-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), September 21, 1999.
Roland, could you provide a link or address? Thanks!
-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), September 21, 1999.
Diane, Cohen must be counting on 1) few Americans "GI"ing in time to do much of anything consequential preps-wise, and 2) that even those who do, will generally not read Sorokin, and thus will not understand the magnitude of the threat to their family's safety from the various governmental units here in the U.S. Put me down for a "sigh", too.my site: www.y2ksafeminnesota.com
-- MinnesotaSmith (y2ksafeminnesota@hotmail.com), September 21, 1999.
Gayla-It was on the Fox Newswire yesterday at 2:57. You can get to it via Drudge at www.drudgereport.com. I'll try to find it in a bit...got to get to work!
R.
-- Roland (nottelling@nowhere.com), September 22, 1999.
Yahoo news picked it up...asia.yahoo.com/headlines/220999/world/937957980-90921235334.newsworld.html
-- Roland (nottelling@nowhere.com), September 22, 1999.
Link to yahoo news:Digital Pearl Harbor
-- BB (peace2u@bellatlantic.net), September 22, 1999.