Your Tax Dollars at Work: Military Monitors
Social Media for Mean Posts About Generals
Breitbart Tech,
by
Allum Bokhari
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/19/2023 10:06:37 AM
The U.S. Army’s Protective Services Battalion (PSB), the Department of Defense’s equivalent of the Secret Service, now monitors social media to see if anyone has posted negative comments about the country’s highest-ranking officers.
Per a report by the Intercept, the PSB’s remit includes protecting officers from “embarrassment,” in addition to more pressing threats like kidnapping and assassination.An Army procurement document from 2022 obtained by the Intercept reveals that the PSB now monitors social media for “negative sentiment” about the officers under its protection, as well as for “direct, indirect, and veiled” threats.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 6/19/2023 10:22:32 AM (No. 1495211)
Is calling U.S Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark "MindlessMoron" Milley a no-no? Excuse me for a moment, there appears to be 3 black helicopters hovering over my backyard. Good thing I have countless articles regarding the chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan.
17 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/19/2023 10:31:50 AM (No. 1495222)
A rep from the US Virgin Islands just stated that the former C-in-C be shot. Does that count?
32 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/19/2023 10:40:03 AM (No. 1495227)
So our enemies will win wars by just shouting (posting) insults at our brass?
18 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
chumley 6/19/2023 10:51:32 AM (No. 1495233)
I worked for my share of idiot officers just like everyone else. One of the rules of survival in the military hierarchy is to be very careful who you tell the truth to. The internet had just become common when I retired but you never ever made disloyal statements over it. Not if you wanted a career.
Like one instructor said way back then, "There is no such thing as E-Mail. Its called evidence."
11 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Tusker 6/19/2023 10:53:48 AM (No. 1495235)
The last thing one wants to do is to offend the sensibilities is woke yellow belly generals observing the action through heavy lenses from the rear.
MAGA
21 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 6/19/2023 10:58:57 AM (No. 1495239)
I would bet that this is not necessary, per se - but the chance to exercise a new techie toy just to see what it can do. Work out the bugs on some fairly innocuous excuse to gear it up for its REAL potential. Thought Control is on the way.
14 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 6/19/2023 11:19:21 AM (No. 1495255)
Somewhere, Gen. George S. Patton is rolling his eyes and laughing his ass off at the pretend men who wear stars on their shoulders.
16 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Talk2 6/19/2023 11:21:18 AM (No. 1495257)
I think it's called spying!
9 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Encore 6/19/2023 11:29:10 AM (No. 1495260)
I’m sure a real man like Gen. George Patton would, and did, cuss ‘em under his breath and go about his business.
12 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/19/2023 11:32:49 AM (No. 1495262)
I question for the umpteenth time - why have social media? By now, everyone knows your employer, the government or your ex will use it against you.
12 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/19/2023 11:40:09 AM (No. 1495265)
All I can say is we haven't won anything, since WWII, which can be laid at the foot of the politicians and generals.
11 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 6/19/2023 11:54:58 AM (No. 1495272)
You mean the PSB can come after me for making fun of the big, bloated, chow hound, woke windbag General Mark PX warrior Milley? Oh my!
11 people like this.
Like Generalissmo Millie? He learns his military strategy from CNN…. A Princeton grad. ‘Splains a lot.
7 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 6/19/2023 1:27:45 PM (No. 1495339)
I once worked for an meritless Major for 2 weeks. The next time I saw him he had been promoted to Lt Cornel. Later I worked for a few weeks in the headquarters where the meritless officer had worked. They said he was so incompetent that another officer had done the work Major couldn't. The work was done so well that the incompetent was promoted. This was 50 years ago undoubtedly it has gotten worse.
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8 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 6/19/2023 1:30:02 PM (No. 1495342)
Yeah, I'm still going to refer to them as Our Gal Milley and Lloyd Affirmative Action.
4 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 6/19/2023 2:37:26 PM (No. 1495406)
Col. Catherine Barrington is the Commander of the 90th Missile Wing, Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Cheyenne Wyoming.
Barrington is woke and pathetic. Let’s hope she never makes General.
3 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 6/19/2023 3:35:47 PM (No. 1495455)
Gee whiz, this makes me think that I'd almost like to join some social media to say some things about Medal Milley. But I won't.
I'll just say that I think that Gen. Milley is a fat, treasonous, backstabbing windbag here on this site.
3 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
TCloud 6/19/2023 7:38:03 PM (No. 1495556)
Putin NOT impressed!
1 person likes this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
mifla 6/20/2023 6:38:58 AM (No. 1495763)
Good thing Generals Patton and Sherman did not use social media.
1 person likes this.
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