Comments on: Exercise, Exercise, Exercise http://thewesternword.com/2009/09/12/exercise-exercise-exercise/ Independent Commentary about Politics, Sports, the Media, and Current Events Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:38:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jack the Blogger http://thewesternword.com/2009/09/12/exercise-exercise-exercise/#comment-676 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:48:05 +0000 http://thewesternword.com/2009/09/12/exercise-exercise-exercise#comment-676 D.Q.

There are four things that could have prevented this exercise from being reported as a real world incident:

1. If those involved would have announced “exercise” during every radio transmission, there would not have been a problem – even on 9-11. Even CNN would have understood.
2. If the CG would have used an encrypted frequency to communicate during the exercise, none of this would have been public.
3. If the Public Affairs folks for the CG would have been briefed about the exercise, they could have answered the reporter’s questions.
4. If other federal agencies would have been notified, this would not have escalated.

I’m glad I wasted some of your precious time, and if you’re reading and/or responding to this post, I have accomplished that deed, twice!

Thanks for visiting TWW.

-JtB

]]> By: Don Quixote http://thewesternword.com/2009/09/12/exercise-exercise-exercise/#comment-675 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:26:55 +0000 http://thewesternword.com/2009/09/12/exercise-exercise-exercise#comment-675 No apology from the Coast Guard is warranted or remotely necessary. The fact that people monitor the Coast Guard's radio transmissions is beyond the Coast Guard's control. If, because they didn't monitor all of the transmissions they didn't hear the "exercise" preface nor the "bang, bang, bang", that is not the Coast Guard's fault. No heads will roll because nobody did anything wrong. You didn't hear the words "exercise…" in the CNN tapes because they're not there. They didn't record that part. They are in other agency recordings. You did hear the "bang, bang, bang". What did they think when they heard that? Want to know exactly what was said? Send the Coast Guard a request for transcripts. Like CNN you've made assumptions and come to conclusions without complete information nor does it appear that you have gone through any efforts to obtain that info. You just took CNN's word for it. There's always more to the story and it's not the Coast Guard's responsibility to educate you.
Admiral Currier had a blase attitude toward this event because it was just another distractor from doing the job he's assigned to do, one more thing to listen to someone bitch about because some idiot didn't have all the facts, one more thing to go try to explain when he had other more importnat things to deal with. Thanks for perpetuating the ignorance with your two cents. And this was a waste of 10 minutes of my life that I won't get back…

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