Sub physics - experts needed

[Bubblehead Nuke]

Originally Posted by Dr.Sid

I wonder .. how exactly are those 'rules' defined ? You are told what you can tell and what not ? Generally NDAs are more like 'you wont tell anything'.

These rules are spelled out on a long form that you sign multiple times when you get out of the military. The length of these forms is dependant on your security clearance, what job you did, what kind of things that you did or may have been exposed to.

What to know the funny thing? You do not get a copy of what you signed off on saying what you can not talk about. You get to read it, sign it acknowledging that you read it and that you can be subject to or cause:

1) recall and face UCMJ at any time for the rest of your life
2) be tried for violation of the espionage act
3) compromise national security
4) create an international incident
5) possibly be subject to capitol punishment
6) create an embarressing situation for the United States

Those are some of the big bold type comments that I remember. As to what they pertained too, well, some I remember clearly still. Some are muddled with time.

Some of the rules are commen sense. We would no want to put our fellow shipmates at risk by describing methods and details. While we might lead you in the correct GENERAL direction, we will not give you the details of how things are exactly done. Even though I have been out for quite some time now, I could give you still give you enough detailed information that could help a potential enemy detect and/or sink our own ships.

Between a few of use that I have had conversations with on this forum, we could concievably give you the detailed operating procedures and characteristcs of every nuke boat that the United States has ever made. We could give some people in the navy right now a heart attack. Then we would have some knocks on our doors as we all got ready to go to prison for the rest of our LIVES.

I would not bet against the possibility that this forum is monitored by someone in the Department of Defense on a daily basis to ensure that one of us do not cross the line. I just wonder if the response would be a e-mail, a phone call, or a knock at the door. I, for one, do not intend to find out.