Hard to really recon a hotel room. It’s hard to follow someone to their room.
Hard to really recon a hotel room. It’s hard to follow someone to their room.
You just pull whomever your target is (electronically) and you're off to the races.
There's no reason to pull people who aren't involved: that's amateur hour, it's illegal, and anyone who does that should be in prison, minimum 5 years. Collect on innocent people intentionally, 5 years and no money. (There's laws, that's what Lawyers do, they handle that)
You're not going to know what the setup of the inside of the hotel room is, you're going to know exactly where the person you're scooping up is.
This is very long, just scroll on by if you aren't interested, it's always using speech to text, so hopefully I got that right.
Here's some background on Urban Exercises for SI that people typically don't appreciate so normally we don't bother/ (I'm a glutton for punishment)
1) With 1% of 1% National Agency there's more than one DIGITAL SIGINT EW Operator on their team. TBH, it's as many as they can get (which isn't a lot, because Weapons and Nerds are in short supply) nor is it a secret.
2) We don't "follow" anyone physically, ever. If you can see us, it's not National (to include Uniformed Services), call the police.
3) It's always wrong floor. How? Defective equipment or operator error. That's it. Not an excuse. Literally. DE or OE. DE or OE. DE or OE. DE comes from Contracts not getting fielded at Operational Speed because some shithead "doesn't want to break anything," and then you drop it once, and it starts being unreliable.
4) Event was expensive. If it's OE more shit is fucked up. Delta pilots don't sleep on swill pillows and FUSION likes places live Motel 6 to work (not sleep).
5) Operator Error raises the question: Has *everyone* has quit.
6-a) If ppl are doing "double duty" because of SIGINT for all, that's stupid and you get what you get. Saw this beginning in 2014 when JSOC HUMINT was Diy-ing SIGINT, authorized. It was long, slow, and expensive. An example is, a whole team holed up in a house for 72 hours from OpFor, because they didn't want to get arrested by the Local LEA (which happened on night 2 of the exercise).
NA doesn't have turf wars. NA wants everyone to win. NA is super nice and loves our customers. If you aren't one, that just means you aren't one, yet.
7) Any team worth their salt would walk on "the planners" pushing bad plans before seeing said plans to fruition. Ppl don't want to die.
7-a) Thank God it was a commercial pilot and not an off-duty SWAT. That would have been horrific.
8) We like to empower people adjacent to the rear, God knows why.
9) There are outlier possibilities expounding on OE and DE but none of them make it look good for the home team, so I don't see a reason to unpack them.
10) IC participation segment is low on the web for a reason. It's not OpSec, all of this is old news. It's because we are cranky bastards. That's just the way it is.
location. Team. Team go to location. Where we go? You ask your S operator.
If this highly funded event was relying on Geospatial/IMINT, or HUMINT versus the actual people who only do this, that's a problem. This is what happens as a result.
*Also (I super doubt I'll get any takers) but anyone remember when that fusion exercise left the unexploded ordinances in that school bus in Maryland? That was hilarious. They found it....when transportation called 911 from the bus yard. That was so funny. It's relevant because that's not SI EW.
*Edited for not speech to text.
**Now I'll stop nerding up this thread
