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The Story Of Sailors Secretly Installing Starlink On Their Littoral Combat Ship Is Truly Bonkers
The fact that an LCS deployed with a Starlink system operating onboard and the captain had no clue about it is a very disturbing revelation.
The Manchester chiefs’ Starlink network was “a direct violation of emissions control regulations on board a ship,” Jerry Hendrix, a retired Navy captain and Senior Fellow at the Sagamore Institute explained to The War Zone. The revelations about USS Manchester’ s unauthorized Starlink setup comes as the Navy continues to grapple with the challenge of providing persistent, but secure high-speed internet capabilities that serve both mission and morale-boosting purposes. USMC Task Force 51/5th Marine ExpeditOne specific architecture, called Sailor Edge Afloat and Ashore(SEA2), which originally began as an ad-hoc effort aboard the Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, has now become a model for expanding this capability across the Navy’s fleets.
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