Do you have anything to add, then, about the B-52 incident, or not?

AFI10-701 30 SEPTEMBER 2005
Definition. OPSEC is a process of identifying, analyzing and controlling critical information indicating friendly actions attendant to military operations and other activities to: (a) Identify those actions that can be observed by adversary intelligence systems. (b) Determine what indicators adversary intelligence systems might obtain that could be interpreted or pieced together to derive critical information in time to be useful to adversaries. (c) Select and execute measures that eliminate or reduce to an acceptable level the vulnerabilities of friendly actions to adversary exploitation. (JP 3-54). OPSEC is a process and not a collection of specific rules and instructions that can be applied to every operation. OPSEC must be closely integrated and synchronized with other influence operations capabilities and all aspects of the protected operations.

AFI 33-204 1 APRIL 2004
Terms
Communications Security (COMSEC)—Measures and controls taken to deny unauthorized persons information derived from telecommunications and to ensure the authenticity of such communications. (AFPD 33-2)

Communications security (COMSEC): Measures and controls taken to deny unauthorized persons information derived from telecommunications and ensure the authenticity of such telecommunications. Communications security includes cryptosecurity, transmission security, emission security, traffic-flow security. and physical security of COMSEC equipment.

Hope that helps.

Friend, you might want to take your COMSEC protocols a bit more seriously. I’d appreciate any insights you wanted to provide, but this isn’t the way, for your own safety.

It is impossible to guage whether the 6 deaths are significantly outside the predictions of chance without a lot more information.

First, there is no indication of the size of the sample. How many personnel work in the area or are conceivably connnected with the event? Are the 6 who died the only 6 who were involved in the proceedings or are they part of a group of 20,000 individuals?

There is no control group. There is no way to know if these deaths are out of the ordinary unless the figure is compared with the number of deaths in this group which occured during the same time span last year, and the year before that, and the year before that. If 6 or more people from this group died during this time span in the previous year then it is unlikely that there is anything special about the six deaths reported here. It is almost always possible to find a connection between perfect strangers if you searching for it especially in retrospect.

There is no plausable reason advanced for why these particular people, and not others, might have been murdered. The thread is implying that they were murdered, isn’t it?

Finally, no-one has advanced any theory about the mechanism by which these individuals were murdered which makes more sense than the mechanism of chance. Only one case is reported in any detail and that one would be very hard to attribute to anything other than accident. If, however, each one of these people were found shot through the head in execution style then the theory of accident would be much less plausable.

To summarize, a conspiracy theory can only be applied to these events if the principles of valid statistical analysis and logical deduction are ignored. In blunt terms, it is not an intelligent theory.

From my life I know that the resume Tito found is true so far as it concerns the following:
“Maintained security for Department of Energy overland shipments of Protection Level I (PL I) weapons and critical components.” DOE is by land. Air Force by air. I’m not an authority per se, but the Air Force moves nuclear weapons all the time, but not in this way!

Interesting though that the “mistaken shipment” chose the WMD-80 (if memory serves me) to ship. This is a system that is proving to be more cost prohibitive to refurbish – moreso than any other nuke. A report to that effect is on the DOE/OIG website.

The base, if they had foreknowledge of the shipment, was most likely saying “good riddance to bad rubbish.” We’re taking out the trash so to speak. Happens all the time with other high explosive weaponry – rocket motors, etc. BUT NOT WITH NUKES.

For myself, I think this story is one that needs stay alive. Why does a person have to die for exposing such a thing?

minot.af.mil — Units — 5th Bomb Wing Units. On minot.af.mil/units/5bwunits.asp, you see:

The 5th Mission Support Group… consist of the 5th Civil Engineer Squadron, 5th Communications Squadron, 5th Force Support Squadron and 5th Security Forces Squadron, 5th Contracting Squadron and 5th Logistics Readiness Squadron.

Tito’s find backs up the obvious assumption that a security unit that is assigned to a B-52 bomber wing is going to be responsible for nuclear weapons.

googling “5th security forces” air force “response force”

brings up a link to this guys resume
http://smarthunt.com/resume.cfm?portfolioid=34653

Reading this other guy’s resume, he references his experience serving in Minot ND as including

· Protected nuclear and conventional weapons storage areas along with B-52 and all other transient aircraft assigned to restricted areas.

· Maintained security for Department of Energy overland shipments of Protection Level I (PL I) weapons and critical components.

· Provided security for alert, non-alert, transient aircraft and a PL I Weapons Storage Area (WSA).
· Regularly inspected base and WSA facilities to ensure compliance with security standards.
· Responded to alarms inside and outside of the WSA and took necessary actions to neutralize threats directed at resources and personnel.
· Controlled entry and maintained security for close-in security areas. Responsible for entry control of vehicles, equipment and personnel to PL I WSA.
culvert/concealment checks of PL I WSA to deter and detect threats.

I know this is not the resume of the deceased, but it is reasonable to assume that these duties would be within the same scope (or at least neighborhood) as they served in a similarly titled unit on the Minot base.

So….