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WWMND?
My husband hasn't deployed since we've been married but from reading, I feel like I understand OPSEC. I have a friend (we've only hung out a few times) whose husband is deploying soon. She first sent out a mass text message to everyone on her phone list saying that her husband is going to be deploying sooner than they thought and that he will be leaving x days earlier on the xx, but with the dates filled in. She then posted it on FB saying she isn't allowed to give dates but he is leaving x days after her mom's birthday, and the date of her mom's birthday is in her status right below. Some of my husband's friends are deploying with her husband so I just mentioned that she should probably take them down and be a lot less vague about it. She told me to mind my own business and that I didn't know anything about deployments and security cause I was only dating my husband when he deployed. She then sent out another text message to everyone in her phone saying when he is leaving again and where they will be flying and such.
Should I say anything else? Should I say something to someone else?
Re: WWMND?
I would recommend you talk to your husband, and that he go to his supervisor. Tell the supervisor that you have asked for these texts to stop/posts to be removed, and the person refused.
I'm generally not a "tattle-tale" kind of person, but if you have already gone to the person directly, then the next step is go to a supervisor. Since there is no binding spouse "hierarchy" or rank structure, the only option is to go to the military side and let your husband's supervisor know that this is going on.
OPSEC is serious. You're right to try to protect this information, and this other woman is WAY wrong.
You could call the Ombudsman/Key Volunteer, or whatever the liaison is called for your branch and let them know about the violations and that you asked them to be taken down and she refused. They could then let the COC know, who would likely talk to her SM about it.
You did the right thing though in asking her to take it down. Who cares if she got pissed at you, since she is putting your loved one as well as many others' loved ones in harm's way.
Your friend isn't very smart. I would call your Key Caller and let that person know. You should also have been given the info for the unit's PR person. I'd call that person and let them know she has put these dates on blast.
I would also post a general link to this: http://www.army.mil/article/2758/army-releases-new-opsec-regulation/
As well as copy the OPSEC post at the top of the page.
For for information, posting OPSEC violations such as dates and flight times can cause her to be black listed from receiving any information about her husband or the unit in general from the FRG or unit. We have one wife who is black listed. She gets no info, she is not allowed to come to our events and receives a phone call to pick her husband up after everyone else has left when they come home from deployments.
Some people....
I can't tell you the date, but if you can do simple math or have a calculator, here's the date! And where they're going! Nothing wrong with any of this. I swear.
I wouldn't say anything else to her directly, but as per others' suggestions, find someone to tell. At the rate she's going, of course, someone in the command has probably already figured her out.