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A Marine's cellphone selfie got his whole unit 'killed' during training in California
A junior Marine got his artillery unit into a serious bind after snapping a photo during a massive force-on-force training exercise in California's Mojave Desert.
Ten thousand troops recently descended on Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms for the biggest training event of its kind in decades. The Marines, sailors and NATO forces faced drone attacks, cyber breaches and other high-tech challenges during the free-play exercise.
But one team was taken out by a different kind of threat, Lt. Gen. Lori Reynolds, the Marine Corps' deputy commandant of information, told reporters at the Pentagon.
"A Marine in that exercise took a selfie of him being bored," she said. "It showed in that selfie it was an artillery unit. You could go geo-locate him, and you could see what unit it was.
"They were like, 'OK, you guys are dead.'"
It's a tough lesson for a young Marine to learn, Reynolds said.
"And I'm sure that lance corporal was not happy," she said. "But it's OK to learn those things in Twentynine Palms — we don't want to learn those elsewhere
A Marine's cellphone selfie got his whole unit 'killed' during training in California
A junior Marine got his artillery unit into a serious bind after snapping a photo during a massive force-on-force training exercise in California's Mojave Desert.
Ten thousand troops recently descended on Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms for the biggest training event of its kind in decades. The Marines, sailors and NATO forces faced drone attacks, cyber breaches and other high-tech challenges during the free-play exercise.
But one team was taken out by a different kind of threat, Lt. Gen. Lori Reynolds, the Marine Corps' deputy commandant of information, told reporters at the Pentagon.
"A Marine in that exercise took a selfie of him being bored," she said. "It showed in that selfie it was an artillery unit. You could go geo-locate him, and you could see what unit it was.
"They were like, 'OK, you guys are dead.'"
It's a tough lesson for a young Marine to learn, Reynolds said.
"And I'm sure that lance corporal was not happy," she said. "But it's OK to learn those things in Twentynine Palms — we don't want to learn those elsewhere
