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Today’s Navy sailors are likely familiar with the jarring loss of internet connectivity that can come with a ship’s deployment.

For a variety of reasons, including operational security, a crew’s internet access is regularly restricted while underway, to preserve bandwidth for the mission and to keep their ship safe from nefarious online attacks.

But the senior enlisted leaders among the littoral combat ship Manchester’s gold crew knew no such privation last year, when they installed and secretly used their very own Wi-Fi network during a deployment, according to a scathing internal investigation obtained by Navy Times.

As the ship prepared for a West Pacific deployment in April 2023, the enlisted leader onboard conspired with the ship’s chiefs to install the secret, unauthorized network aboard the ship, for use exclusively by them.

So while rank-and-file sailors lived without the level of internet connectivity they enjoyed ashore, the chiefs installed a Starlink satellite internet dish on the top of the ship and used a Wi-Fi network they dubbed “STINKY” to check sports scores, text home and stream movies.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2024/09/03/how-navy-chiefs-conspired-to-get-themselves-illegal-warship-wi-fi/

As a reminder, this happy proud new enlisted sailor got a 1year in prison for pictures of himself on a sub with nothing but plumbing behind him.
https://x.com/Bacon_Is_King/status/1833856416232391137

Chubby Senior NCO Gisel got a demotion in rank as Chief of the Mess who lied 3 times to her Commanding Officers specifically about the unsecured Starlink.

You can bet yo ass (and mine) that the sources for this were those who have been passed over because of DEI shit like this. Or their equally pissed off pals higher up the food chain in the Navy.

The soap opera is mightier than the sword.