This is going to be a long post and I apologize but it's has a little to do with the subject. It is concerning how intelligence is gathered. Humit is human intelligence, information gathered by and from people by the simplest way. An example is a ship deployment. I will use Naval Station Norfolk as the example. Most sailors will shop in their uniform with the ships name often on it and their hat. If a lot of people from USS Awesome start going to the exchange and buy lots of cigarettes, snacks, and hygiene products, something may be happening. At the same time 14 Sysco food trucks are lined up on the pier when there is usually only one a week, something is happening. Watch the news and you will know the destination. That happens all the time. I don't have to go into the social media posts from family members, but that's looked at to.
I have always wondered (not really) why I get hundreds of friend requests from people that I don't know.
But this isn't just for the short term, there is long term gathering as well.
I will use myself as an example because I know me and like talking. Intelligence gathers love that.
Anyone who knows me online and can read between my often funny, often stupid, and highly critical posts would know that I was in the military. I stated in the Alabama Army National Guard, thinking that was the military. Well it ain't. My unit was the 1st Battalion 20th Special Forces out of Huntsville, Alabama. Did Airborne but left for the Navy before the fun snake eatting part. First job in the Navy was heavy equipment operator in the Seabee's. My uncle, a Marine major in the combat engineers told me that a Seabee was a Navy guy who dressed like an Army guy who wished he was a Marine. Went to the Gulf War and began my love affair with the Middle East. After that debacle I said hell no and volunteered for submarines on a ballistic missile boat. Learned more about nuclear war and deterrence than I wanted. Went to an air craft carrier and did Operation Desert Fox and stayed until the Coast Guard offered me a ton of money. Did that for 13 plus years and retired. No fun stories about that, counter drug and anti terrorism still under wraps. Went to college, got an MBA in marketing and Human Resources. Worked for Nestle until my job was outsourced. Was a bagger at a local grocery store, made knives until covid, and worked at Walmart. Oh, I retired as an E-7, joined the Michigan Army National Guard, made First Sergeant (E-8) and the Navy contacted me with an offer, of course it was right after my son died. The bagger, knives, and Walmart was after he died as well. The Navy contacted me Dec 2018, my son died Jan 1st 2019, they gave me a year to grieve and covid added another 11 months so on Dec 7th, 2020 I was commissioned as a lieutenant and given refresher training.
Now here is where the intelligence gathering on me begins. I will mention no members by name and do not think that anyone here is a spy but also realize that is wishful thinking. While I was in training a poster asked what I would be doing and I replied driving ships, and I do. I later posted on my own I was in Hawaii on a ship and had seized some weapons in the Persian Gulf. I stated that I was on a large ship. There's no carriers or amphibious ships there in Hawaii so that means we can assume Aryeh is a lieutenant on an Ticondroga class CG. Next Aryeh ends up in Norfolk VA again, on a large ship that is not an aircraft carrier and is still a lieutenant. Aryeh posted several times about deployment to the Red Sea and has posted a picture of him engaged with a Houthi drone boat filled with explosives. There's a lot of brass and the barrel shows signs of heat and will be changed soon. Most officers on ships would not be doing grunt work like that so we can safety assume that he's not the Operations Officer or Navigator. He's also not in the Supply Department so we can assume that he may be the Weapons Officer. We can also assume his ship was the USS Philippine Sea.
We also know what Aryeh looks like because when he was on staff here he was in the YouTube CF Staff Christmas Card.
We also know Aryeh isn't currently on a ship because he started posting again in December and was making like the top ten in the leaderboard for number of posts in January and February. And we can assume that he is no longer a lieutenant and is probably getting another degree.
Well, that's what you can gather just from monitoring a non military website.
Is it all correct? Not all, I wasn't on the USS Philippines Sea, but you can figure out a lot if you just watch and pay attention.
Of course, you could also save the trouble and just send out a mass email to random people.
But I did get promoted.
Sorry for the boring ramblings post, but for those who don't know much about me, here you go.
P.S. all of our adversaries already know so there's no money to be made selling it.
