Beauchamp Violates OPSEC

That's Operations Security for the layman.

Before deploying to Kuwait last year, Scott Beauchamp posted movement dates for both personnel and equipment.

We finally got official dates on Iraq deployment:
May 15 - Our Bradleys get shipped to Kuwaite
June 11- Advanced Units move in
June 28 - Bravo Team, second squad, first platoon, Alpha Company, first battalion, 18th brigade, first infantry division (the breakdown of who I belong to) deploys.
Were probably going to sit in Kuwaite for some unknown amount of time, and then move into Baghdad.

This was a big, fat ugly no-no. I had mentioned the possible OPSEC violation to some of the folks who had been running with the story, but no one picked up on it. Confederate Yankee, however, emailed Major Kirk Ludeke, PAO at FOB Falcon, to confirm that the publication of deployment dates was a violation and received an unequivocal 'yes' for an answer.

Too bad--for Scott.