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Navy officer lost job for secretly installing internet on warship to check social media (fortune.com)

submitted 3 months ago by ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world

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A U.S. Navy chief who wanted the internet so she and other enlisted officers could scroll social media, check sports scores and watch movies while deployed had an unauthorized Starlink satellite dish installed on a warship and lied to her commanding officer to keep it secret, according to investigators.

Internet access is restricted while a ship is underway to maintain bandwidth for military operations and to protect against cybersecurity threats.

The Navy quietly relieved Grisel Marrero, a command senior chief of the littoral combat ship USS Manchester, in August or September 2023, and released information on parts of the investigation this week.

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 91 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (15 children)

Chiefs are enlisted, not officers. C'mon, AP, this is like day one stuff. Despite the name "petty officer" and term "non-commissioned officer", there's no such thing as an "enlisted officer".

Also, "stinky" was the default SSID on Starlink, not a secret code word they came up with.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 23 points 3 months ago (13 children)

Was gonna call you out for messing that up; warrant officers are officers, they just started out as enlisted men.

Then I realized we are talking navy ranks, and my best knowledge of that is from halo.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, warrant officers are commissioned though. (Technically the most junior rank of Warrant Officer is a warrant from the branch secretary, not a commission, but it's effectively the same. All other warrant officer ranks, Chief Warrant Officer 2 and up, are commissioned by the president.)

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hence the officer in the title, yes.

Warrent officers are also generally insanely talented motherfuckers that had too much disdain for the bureaucracy of the military to start over as an 0-1, and instead sit in a weird middle ground of "so much talent they were elevated up to officers from the enlisted ranks by direct request."

That means that they are right, and you are wrong, and I mean that with complete respect.

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