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Sometimes a column needs 1000 words per topic, and sometimes a lot of little things crop up. Hopefully the major news of the week is the new administration, but here are a couple of other quick items.<\/p>\n

In good news for recruiting, in the first quarter of the fiscal year the Army signed up 30,000 recruits, fully half of what they projected for the entire year. It’s a mixed blessing.<\/p>\n

The early recruiting milestone this month, first reported by Military.com, is largely attributed to the service’s delayed-entry program, which consists of 11,000 recruits, about double the numbers from recent years.<\/p>\n

That pool consists of young Americans who volunteered to serve last year but were delayed being shipped to basic training until this year, which is when they’re formally counted in the recruiting numbers.<\/p>\n

One reason the delayed-entry pool is so large is that the service has effectively run out of space to conduct basic training, giving up some of that real estate to the Future Soldier Preparatory Courses. Military.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the preparatory courses are helping meet goals, but taking room from ‘real’ Basic training. Someone needs to think this through.<\/p>\n

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Multiple articles here have mentioned the security risk of using some fitness apps when deployed – the French just learned this.<\/p>\n

A major security breach unfolded when officers and crew aboard a French nuclear submarine inadvertently exposed critical information, including their location, patrol schedules, and movements, by using the popular fitness app, Strava, according to media reports.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred at the highly secure Ile Longue submarine base, situated in Brest Harbour, France. This base houses four French nuclear submarines, each equipped with 16 nuclear missiles capable of destructive power 1,000 times that of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.<\/p>\n

Despite stringent security protocols prohibiting mobile phones and employing round-the-clock surveillance, third-party fitness apps on smartwatches managed to slip through the cracks, causing this significant breach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In one case an officer logged his fitness daily, until he went dark for six weeks, indicating his sub was on patrol. But wait – as Mr. Popeil said, there’s more:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Le Monde\u2019s<\/em> investigation, dubbed \u201cStravaLeaks,\u201d revealed even more troubling insights. Bodyguards of French, American, and Russian Presidents were found to use Strava as well, leaving their fitness data\u2014and potentially their high-profile leaders\u2019 movements\u2014exposed.\u00a0 Interesting Engineering<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Ponder this, that a French newspaper is schooling our folks on intel leaks. That is just embarrassing. At least they are in the same boat, so to speak.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And Christine Wormuth made the Command Assessment Program permanent, reportedly to prevent bias in command promotions.<\/div>\n
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Army Secretary Christine Wormuth issued a directive Thursday permanently establishing the Command Assessment Program, introduced as a pilot nearly five years ago to review officers and senior enlisted personnel in line for command billets or sergeants major jobs. Military.com II<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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I wonder if this is a reaction to one of her own four-stars getting busted for undue command influence in a subordinate’s promotion? We talked about that previously.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Last, but not least, our favorite Georgian, Stacey Abrams, founded groups to register more young and\/or minority voters.<\/p>\n

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A pair of voting advocacy groups founded by failed Democrat Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams were hit with a historic fine by the Georgia Ethics Commission for violating campaign finance laws to bolster Abram’s 2018 election.<\/p>\n

“Today the State Ethics Commission entered into a consent agreement with the New Georgia Project and the New Georgia Project Action Fund for a total of $300,000,” the Georgia State Ethics Commission posted in a statement on Wednesday. “This certainly represents the largest fine imposed in the history of Georgia’s Ethics Commission, but it also appears to be the largest ethics fine ever imposed by any state ethics commission in the country related to an election and campaign finance case.”<\/p>\n

The groups admitted to failing to disclose about $4.2 million in contributions and $3.2 million in expenditures that were used during Abram’s election efforts in 2018, according to the commission’s consent order. The groups were hit with a total of 16 violations, including failing to register as a political committee and failure to disclose millions of dollars in political contributions.\u00a0 Fox News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, this is my shocked face…<\/p>\n

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