Cheers and Jeers
Sorry it's been a week since my last post...I've been a bit busy with the job. We've been busy beating the bad guys down as
part of the President's Surge Plan.
Cheers:
This week my group received a package of over 90 different DVD's and Music CD's from OPERATION DVD sponsored by AMVETS. What a great organization. The folks I work with have been enjoying these DVD's thanks to the kindness of the folks at AMVETS.
Last night I went to bed about the same time the sun was rising so I took this picture. I hope you enoy it. It's surreal that this beautiful calm sunrise was just another day in the war zone. A place where lives are lost everyday fighting for the ideals of freedom.
Jeers:
There was an article in the July 21st edition of the Stars & Stripes about how over 580,000 servicemembers had their personal information disclosed to include names, social security numbers, addresses and medical files. First off, why does some no-named company, called SAIC, have my personal information? "Oh, were really sorry about that." In the last 4 years, I've have my PERSONAL security information disclosed by Defense Department sub-contractors knuckleheads at least THREE TIMES. What about the Privacy Act of 1974? Thanks Mr. Kenneth C. Dahlberg for safe-guarding my information entrusted to your company! I am over here defending freedom and you just made my life harder. It takes a lot to recover from Identity Theft. The DOD/Government needs to take action to ensure this doesn't happen again; how about not using my Social Security Number! By the way, my wife received a nice form letter from SAIC and YES my information was disclosed. Great! And to think, the DOD trusts these guys with NATIONAL SECURITY and INTEL information.
Other than the above rant, I am in great health, I've been exercising everyday, and I've been getting enough sleep to keep me going....oh, yeah, I also have plenty of great tasting coffee to keep me happy too! The last few days I've been enjoying Starbucks Italian Roast. I don't need anything at this time....thanks for all the offers.
K, J & C, I miss you and know that we'll be back together soon. All my love.
3 comments:
Rob,
As far as I can tell, the list of people who've potentially had their info exposed is very long, and due to my presence on it, relatively undistinguished.
this is the 3rd tiome for me and the first by a subcontractor. compared to the DoD, at least the subcontractor is a) up front about it, and b) paying for a protection service should we fall to id theft.
Bottom Line: Last thing you should be worried about right now.
Keep pressing - and keep checking your 6.
Svend
Sorry to hear, On the home front, many of us get this kind of thing happening to us. Chin up, smile on face, cuz someday, some how they will get theirs. Yup it's happened to me already twice. And I am not in the service!!I don't work for the service! And I'm not live next to base. It does take a special idiot to use most of the info, but most are caught with it unused, or sold to other. Again Sorry to hear your unpleasantness. Still Love ya!!
Yep, this is a real bummer. At my work, some chuckle head handling the company's 401K investments had their laptop stolen out of their car with names, social security #'s, etc. Why they had all of this info on a laptop and left it out of their sight is a mystery?
Anyway, the company bought everyone credit monitoring service for two years. I see every stinking change on my credit file even if its just an inquiry. No problems so far...
As was mentioned by others, there's bigger problems to worry about than this one. Hope everything is going smooth as can be on your side. Great sunrise pic!
Derwan
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