Honestly, after seeing what radiant heat can do to metal, no. I don't believe any of the 9/11 conspiracy theories.
I remember one of our maint guys had accidentally left a spanner (wrench) in one of the kilns after working on something. That kiln only ran up to 1200 degrees. In any case, once he removed it, you could break it with little to no effort. However it hadn't really been directly affected, and at a glance seemed fine (if a bit dulled). The heat had simply burned the carbon out of it, and in doing so rendered it unable to hold any strength. It hadn't melted though, which was important.
(the above is a nist document on the mechanical properties of steel)
Whatever the case, it's worth noting that the shear point of structural steel is .75 tons per square inch. This is the amount of pressure exerted over a specific area required to cause the steel to sheer, or to tear. This is a standard across all types of steel, with cast elements like cast iron having a higher shear tonnage.
What happened to building 7? If the other towers fell because burning fuel weakened the steel, why did WTC 7 fall in the same way if it wasn't hit by a plane?
One of the things about 7 that people often forget, is that the building had the NYPD command center for emergencies in it. One of the floors, I forget which, was taken up by massive diesel fuel tanks which was used to supply power to a generation facility in the building. The idea being that if power went off in the rest of the city, then the command center would be able to produce its own power.
Posting a picture that demonstrates ownership of a lanyard from a company that currently contracts with the Department of Defense is not proof of anything at all.
One of the things about 7 that people often forget.....One of the floors, I forget which, was taken up by massive diesel fuel tanks....
There were no diesel fuel fires in or near the area of initiating event that led to the implosion of WTC 7
NIST even conceded the diesel fuel fire hypothesis on December 18, 2007, it appears you are the one who has forgot
"The working hypothesis is based on an initial local failure caused by normal building fires, not fires from leaking pressurized fuel lines or fuel from day tanks." - NIST
So with your theory blown out of the window, what other theory do you have? Also how do you explain how a skyscraper can go into literal freefall?
Well, when you've got upwards of a thousand or more gallons of diesel burning unchecked for a long period of time, it's reasonable to expect it would undermine the structure.
Dam, you just lost some credibility with me and I'm sure many others. I do appreciate you giving your honest opinion regardless of what others may think of you though.
Since 1993, every government agency has been required to submit to a yearly audit--yet DoD has never done so...What would happen if there was an actual audit?
I know you may not know or can't say even if you did... but there is a treaty banning WMD's from deployment in orbit/space. In your opinion is that treaty likely being adhered to, or not? Secondly, how much weaponry (non WMD) would you "guess" is in orbit/space, some? a lot? or more-than-enough aka shitloads?
I think that the WMD thing is being adhered to, in as much as you don't see nuclear missiles hanging around up there; however beyond that, I can't say. Not that I'm not allowed to, but rather that I'm not certain.
I do know that it's possible to de-orbit something like a GPS sat and drop it pretty much where ever you would want. While most of it would burn up in orbit, there would still be enough material there to level a small city on impact. So, it kinda makes me think that what would be the point of sticking a WMD up there, when you have dozens if not more handy sats you could plunk on something?
A small city. It's based around the idea of kinetic energy rounds. Keep in mind, that giant crater out in the desert, the meteor that made it was about 150 feet across. The crater it made is one mile across and 500 feet deep. Your average GPS sat is about 20 feet across. While it wouldn't create as much a crater, the energy released from such a hit would equal the force from the Hiroshima bomb.
What do you think of the US being able to fly a bunch of helicopters into Abbattabad Pakistan without being detected by radar during the OBL operation? I think it's impossible but I'm no radar expert!
Entirely possible, and common really. From a simple technology point of view, Radar itself is actually VERY limited in what it can and can not detect. Meaning that once you get under a certain altitude (usually in the 2000 foot range) whatever's up there simply won't show up on radar.
Edit: Let me clarify. First I was eating and kinda gave you a short answer.
Ok, to explain, even though the radar waves go out, in many ways they're like light. Meaning they go in a straight direction. They don't really angle up, or down that much. At a certain altitude, like I said, in the 2000 foot range, you start running into situations where background noise becomes a problem. You might shoot out a beam, only to have it strike a structure, tree, hill, mountain, or cloud. It comes beaming back and you've suddenly got a ghost return. Meaning that any aircraft flying below this, while not actually OFF radar as you might expect, is instead lost in the background clutter. What makes things worse, is in some cases military strikes have been known to use known civ corridors (we saw the side effect of this in the Ukraine), in an effort to fool the radar techs into thinking that they're seeing a commercial flight.
I think its more that there are some that I suspect are red herrings. I worked pretty extensively with high temperature kilns (2800 degrees F) that were used to make various ceramics parts. It didn't take me long to note that these things could not only be used as crematoria, but would render anything inside them to less than ash. Considering their size, you could reasonably destroy eighty to 100 bodies in a single go. Based on this I started looking closer at the FEMA concentration camp theories and more and more found that they seemed "too good to be true" in numerous aspects. Meaning they seemed more to be a red herring than anything.
There are some that do intrigue me, which seem viable in relative terms. One being the fact that some of what we were making relied on technology that even the engineers noted "we don't really know WHY this works." The R2A aspect of things went through a sudden leap in technology around the start of WW2, going from using natural crystals to complex piezoelectric (ceramic) systems with little to no moving parts. It just seems strange that such a sudden leap would be made, with no sudden announcement in regards to it.
This really makes me wonder just where such technology came from. The fact that now we have sensor systems which have no moving parts, but are able to pick up even the most minute sounds...well it does make you wonder.
I can't talk about that, but only because of family ties to that whole scenario. The TLDR of it: One of my third cousins was, at the time of Roswell, the lead civilian in charge of the skunk works at Wright-Patterson.
Well, it depends. I know there's a perpetual contract with the US navy that gains the company around 289 million dollars a year, just to provide sonar systems.
Is there a split, like good guys and bad guys, like those working for the Cabal and those opposed to it? If so, is it well known or are most oblivious to it?
There's a split. You have guys like me who were there just for the paycheck, or because they really had no other options. Then, on the other side you have people who...how do I put this? They know that there's more going on, and could care less but it would take effort.
Is the DOD/pentagon/cia/any agency involved in using raves, festivals, electronic music, etc to study psychology, crowd control or psychoactive substances?
It would make sense for the CIA to be toying around with that. There's the whole Polybius thing from the early 80's that had their fingerprints all over it.
I'm not sure myself. I know for a fact that around that time the CIA were poking around with mind altering drugs and how they might be used to affect soldiers...so it stands to reason that they may have tried something.
One of the top comments has him basically saying "9/11 wasn't an inside job because of a kiln getting hot" and that he doesn't believe in any conspiracy theories.
Conspiracy theories are just going against what we're told as truth, how can there be none? That's infinitely more of an absurd statement than there being conspiracies.
On top of all that, there's no proof, at all, and he isn't giving any information that he "learned while at the DoD".
The company I worked for is Harris. They recently purchased Exelis, formerly of ITT. The purchase was for 4.75 billion dollars, putting Harris at being the number 8 defense contractor.
Yes. Most of the rank and file such as me, know that some of what we're doing isn't what I'd call in the best interests of the nation; but the problem is there isn't a whole hell of a lot we can do about it. In the past month, no less than six people have left over ethical concerns. Some in regards to a change in policy in regards to hiring, but one just before me from the same area who had a similar issue to mine.
Wouldn't do us any good. The press tend to like the companies we work with, and are willing to cover up any major problems. Case in point, at another site (not mine, nor did I have control over its waste water system) it was discovered that they were leeching heavy metals like mercury into the ground water. This stuff was turning up in the city water systems, and people were getting severely sick. Yet, the only thing that was ever reported was the fact that the city in question would be on bottled water for over a YEAR, even though their water system was given a clean bill of health.
I agree with you on this. Unless you have some type of epic bombshell, going to the press is only gonna make your life hell and more than likely will have little to no influence or actual change on anything. Stay strong!
Have you heard of Thomas Drake? No? That's why no one else goes public, goes to the press, or takes legal action.
If you have heard of him, well, the point remains the same. Nothing will happen, the only people who will get in trouble are the whistleblowers. It's like one man or a small group trying to go up against the mafia by 'going to the media' or 'taking them to court'...the only thing that happens is the mafia destroys them.
Well, to start off, an Israeli company has discovered a cure for brain cancer which works off of microburst sonar. The company (owned by the Israeli government) goes by the name "novocure." The treatment itself is VERY expensive (tens of thousands of dollars per treatment), but it's 99% effective at killing brain cancer. It's so effective that the FDA waived the typical 10 year test period after two years to push it into full production.
On the other side of things, several Nato countries are taking orders of new Mk54 torpedoes. These torpedoes are primarily anti submarine torpedoes, however they can be used for anti surface. What makes them so unnerving is the Mk54 is able to be programmed with the blade count of a specific ship, and will avoid any escort vessels. Supposedly, the torpedo can be fired into a port, where it will sink to the bottom and lie in wait up to a month before going for its pre programmed target.
Holy shit. Good stuff. Any links to info on any of this? Have you ever heard of Fred Bell and the X1 Healing Machine? Sounds very similar to the novocure thing. Have you seen the Keshe energy generator that just came out? What's your thoughts on that and have you seen anything similar?
What is the general sense you get from the higher-ups? Was your boss such a cunt because he was overwhelmed/incompetent or because he was arrogant/overconfident?
I think my direct boss was more incompetent than anything.
Here's the thing, I can tell you that the Keshe stuff is just snake oil. However I can also tell you that there is a true clean energy/free energy thing that would work; but no nation wants to do it.
Piezoelectrics are unique ceramics which, when under pressure, they generate electrical current. The higher the pressure, the higher the current. If you put a current to them, they vibrate. (granted you can't really see or feel this, but they do it.)
If a country wanted to create true free, and perfectly clean electricity, then all they would need do is submerge several miles of piezoelectric ceramic cables (or something similar) on the bottom of the ocean. The pressure alone would create enough energy to run a city. Granted, you would need a very LARGE area of coverage to do this, but the end result would be electricity which cost nothing to generate, and produced zero pollution, as well as had zero environmental impact.
So, how large exactly? I mean if a person had some of these cables, installed them into a large air compressor and pressurized it, how much current would it make? Like say you have a big 120 gallon air compressor with as much cable as you could fit into it, then you closed it up and put pressure on it....how much are we talking about? I know, I just asked the exact same question in two ways. so sue me.
Well, that's a hard question. It depends on the size of the ceramic involved. Typically, you're actually talking something that's rather small. So in the 2 inch diameter range. Usually smaller.
An example of applications in this area is the electric cigarette lighter, where pressing a button causes a spring-loaded hammer to hit a piezoelectric crystal, thereby producing a sufficiently high voltage that electric current flows across a small spark gap, heating and igniting the gas. Most types of gas burners and ranges have a built-in piezo based injection systems.
I was just curious if this was something that could be adapted to be an in home generator or something. I'm clueless about this stuff and its applications. I figured, pressurized cables=get electricity...but on this scale I'm assuming it probably won't make enough to run the compressor itself.
For example: Los Angeles covers 500 sq miles (I think). A 500 sq mile grid, granted would take a long time to construct. But that grid would provide clean, cheap (let's face it, no one's going to build it if they can't make money off it) electricity for 18 million people. Can you imagine the environmental impact and cost savings by powering just one city this way?
Yeah. Even if the system was only used for certain cities, such as large ones like LA, or NYC, then the overall offset to the environment would be considerable. Plus, the worst case scenario for it would be needing to fix a cable or something. No 3 mile island, Fukishima, or Chernobyl.
My understanding of this type of power generation is that it requires changing mechanical stress and not the constant stress that undersea cables would provide. DARPA dropped it's soldier boots that harvested electricity from simple walking due to discomfort. Well, they publicly dropped it while it may have gone dark.
Anything more you can mention about the undersea cables idea?
I was in college at the time, and I've only heard about it in passing. However it seemed like the whole thing that was being proposed was to use a varying depth type scenario. Meaning that the system would vary its depth by only a few meters over the span of a day to create the electric charge.
Lived in Greenwood most of my life until I started moving around. I got tired of dealing with the sterotypical rednecks and racists, and after talking with a few people I started to question things.
yeah of course you have this guy "indra varuna" come into the thread to inject something about jews - because he just can't help himself, he loves them so much.
What type of encryption was used for the communication of simple messages (SMTP, something proprietary)? What type of encryption was used for stored (data at rest) data?
Not a question for me. But, id just like to point out that at this point, Russia and China couldn't deal with a war against NATO/other US allies. Militarily they're outmatched, but more importantly they couldn't keep up economically. They'd fall apart after a while.
Thanks for doing the AmA. Are you able to speak on anything regarding the UFO subject in relation to your work? Are you privy to how the DoD deals with such cases?
I honestly can't answer the first. I could guess, but that would just be a guess and it wouldn't help.
To answer the second, I think rather considerably, but through proxy. I know just recently, ITT was hit with a number of serious sanctions after it was discovered they had been illegally transporting classified materials (it does not specify what these were) out of the country. This wasn't the first time something similar had happened. Though it's from a communist blog/website, here's a previous incident.
The defense argued that by supplying weapons components to the US, EDO is in breach of the Cluster Munitions Prohibitions Act of 2010, which makes it illegal in UK law to assist the use of cluster munitions anywhere in the world. The act is the UK implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, an international treaty adopted in Dublin in 2008.
(note: EDO was Exelis. The name changed sometime in 2010 I think.)
You still came up with an extremely bullshit reason as to why WTC 7 fell, compared the towers falling to a kiln being hot, and have provided absolutely nothing new.
This AMA is nothing but "What are your thoughts on"... You should be providing new controversial subjects that we haven't heard a million times.
thanks for trying, it must be pretty disheartening for any "whistleblower" to try to 'come out' with their experience in any way when this is the type of response they get.
I think talking to the common man just makes people think "wow, this is why the government thinks they are all idiots, I guess they're right and I should just keep doing my job".
I've been watching this page for a while, the DoD spending reports. Basically every weekday the DoD publishes the public contracts awarded. On most days there are half a billion dollars awarded. Yesterday was a light day around 582 million. It isn't uncommon to see several billion dollars get awarded in a single day.
A lot of this is maintenance for things that we own like repairs to ships, etc., and nearly all of it could be argued that these are American jobs. But I do get frustrated when I see new weaponry contracts, money being spent to build weapons that (I feel) no one should be making.
On most days I'm outraged at the amount of money being spent, especially when major media runs a big campaign that focuses on some big scandal where a much smaller amount is involved. IE: we committed to spending 1.5 Billion dollars today on weapons we shouldn't be buying, but oh hey, this politician just stole $75,000, so pitchforks!
Do you have any thoughts in general about DoD spending? I would imagine that this only represents a part of the spending that actually occurs. Would a "black ops" project be listed here too? I would guess not, but I'm curious.
Black projects, such as the old project for the SR71, are not part of any official budget. There's a "fund" of sorts that's they use to give money to projects, without actually specifically putting information out about just what those projects were.
In my old company email, we'd get this list of various projects that the company had managed to secure. Some of them made a great deal of sense, such as the production of a new type of sonogram equipment that has better definition. Other times, you were left really wondering what the point was.
Where I'm located there are two sites. One does the Piezoelectrics, while another does carbon fiber parts for aircraft. I remember a few months back how the company announced how proud they were to have secured a contract to make a portion of the F-35's weapons launch system. The contract was easily a billion dollar contract. Problem was, that launch system really didn't work as intended. While yes, portions of it worked, as a whole the system just couldn't be made to do what it was supposed to; and thus was going to end up costing the government billions more to fix.
It's stuff like that that really bothered me. I could understand pouring all manner of dollars into major weapons systems, if those systems actually worked like they were supposed to. HOWEVER, when you plunk money down like there's no tomorrow on something that you're not 100% sure is going to work in the first place? It just doesn't make sense to me. It never did, and it never will. Let me see if I can drag up a good example for you.
Ok, I was there when this one came across our news. It was also one of the ones that seriously bothered me. It's a weapons deployment module for an unmanned drone. There are some advances to it, not the least of which being a far lighter construction than the standard type. Now on one hand you could argue that this would let the drone fly longer with the same amount of fuel. On the other hand, it seems to me that it would allow the drone to carry more weaponry, since the light weight of the deployment system would offset any added on munitions.
R2A. Radar, Recon, and Acoustics. Typically Sonar packages and the LWWAA system for the NSSN series of Submarine.
The ethic violation came over a long term issue. Basically, the supervisor I had would routinely single out employees and tell them that they quote "weren't a good fit" or that they needed to quit. He would also contact them on their personal phones for this same reason. In my case, he was outright telling me that I was the reason the department looked bad, and was adding on far more job duties than I was supposed to have. I was a waste water tech who helped out with other duties. However he expected me to either work extra hours (for no pay), or he would refuse my PTO even though I had valid hours for it.
I don't know off hand, but I do remember hearing something about a software issue that was tied to the China hacks. It was never confirmed, but the general agreement was that the Chinese had somehow corrupted several key computer systems. Beyond that, I have no actual first hand knowledge. As I noted, I worked primarily in Waste treatment, as well as some in production.
That was near us, but no. We had nothing to do with that.
Basically, waste treatment deals with the water used during production. Mostly you're talking water that is being used to cool parts during cutting, but also water which was used to clean areas.
I would go on duty at 9pm (though I would arrive earlier). Once on site, my first task was to take a status of all the systems which I monitored, including temperatures of various production kilns, and the numerous water sensors. The kilns, though not directly part of my job, were an important part so they relied on operations (my actual job title) to monitor them.
Once I had the status down, knowing that all the systems were working properly, I would take a sample reading from the settling tanks, as well as the holding pond. This sample was tested for the presence of numerous types of heavy metals, and would go in a log.
Every hour, I would repeat the process of taking samples, and testing. I also took time to check water usage, how much we were recycling back into the system, and how much was being discharged from the holding pond into the municipal treatment system.
The holding pond itself held water that had been treated no less than two times, and was actually potable (drinkable) though it lacked things like chlorine and flouride.
Interesting. Can you say anything about what you were producing? Weapons/vehicles I assume?
If you found that there was a high level of heavy metals in the water you sampled what would your next course of action be? Were you checking to ensure they stayed below a certain level or were you just logging the results?
How was it decided how much water was recycled and how much was put through the municipal treatment system? What was the ideal balance (if there was one)?
Are you saying that the holding pond water remained potable even after it was used to cool the parts during cutting?
We tried to keep the usual concentrations at .005 parts per million. The standard for municipal systems, as set by the EPA is .1 parts per million. So higher standards than your average tap water.
The water we recycled would go into the cooling and parts cutting, but it was not returned to the holding pond until well after the treatment process. The pond itself was just a place to hold the excess water after the secondary treatment. By that point it was just a matter of how full the pond was, and how much water we had taken in through regular use. If for example, it had rained recently, we'd let out a few thousand gallons of water to keep the level from overflowing. On the other hand, if it was a particularly dry season, we'd hold the water back so it meant we didn't put as much a strain on the municipal system.
There really wasn't any one deciding factor for it, though it averaged out to a 1:1 ratio. So, for every one we used, we tried to put one back. This didn't always happen, of course, but we still tried.
Oh, almost missed the question of what I would do.
If I found that there was a high level of heavy metals, I would immediately shut the site down. All production, regardless of whether it used water or not, would stop. Any discharge would also stop, and I would contact the site director, the ESH personnel, and then hazardous waste containment. From that point on they would deal with it. There was always a Haz mat team on standby just in case something went wrong. Only had to call them once, after a line broke and dumped the sludge out into the site itself. Cleanup took a week, with all our water (treated or otherwise) being trucked off to a secure facility for treatment.
And yes, there were some conflicts like I had. The most recent was a guy who was like a brother to me. He'd been with us five years, and like me he just got to the point that he could no longer deal with it.
Before him, there was another operator who simply walked in and told them to take the job and shove it.
It's entirely probable that there are alternative reasons. The whole "toe the line" type of situation seems to really come into play. If you're not a company man, so to speak, you have no real future.
Nah, we used a filtration system. Primarily a DE system with an emulsifier. DE being diatomaceous earth. DE as a filter media, when used with an Alar (company name) vacuum system removes 99.99% of all particulate matter in one treatment. We treated the water twice, just to be certain.
What one person does, regardless of who they work for, can often make it special. It's more a question of allowing you to see beyond the usual and into places where you might otherwise not. Not unlike a person who works in customer service stepping back and talking about the various things they do that the average customer doesn't know about.
Well, "major" would seem more like "dozens of people in trouble, millions of dollars wasted/stolen, Congress investigating, a General might be retired, etc".
That was near us, but no. We had nothing to do with that.
Basically, waste treatment deals with the water used during production. Mostly you're talking water that is being used to cool parts during cutting, but also water which was used to clean areas.
I would go on duty at 9pm (though I would arrive earlier). Once on site, my first task was to take a status of all the systems which I monitored, including temperatures of various production kilns, and the numerous water sensors. The kilns, though not directly part of my job, were an important part so they relied on operations (my actual job title) to monitor them.
Once I had the status down, knowing that all the systems were working properly, I would take a sample reading from the settling tanks, as well as the holding pond. This sample was tested for the presence of numerous types of heavy metals, and would go in a log.
Every hour, I would repeat the process of taking samples, and testing. I also took time to check water usage, how much we were recycling back into the system, and how much was being discharged from the holding pond into the municipal treatment system.
The holding pond itself held water that had been treated no less than two times, and was actually potable (drinkable) though it lacked things like chlorine and flouride.
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8 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Let me say, I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders.
This was a long time coming.
5 lucycohen 2015-10-29
Why have you written an insane number of comments in 2 months, but nothing before then?
They've racked up 18,708 comment karma in 2 months
3 peterson2004 2015-10-29
Reddit only stores 15 pages of comments (that we can access) via profile.
3 lucycohen 2015-10-29
If that's true I'll let him off on that one
6 peterson2004 2015-10-29
I know your shill detector is on high alert. :/
3 lucycohen 2015-10-29
First thing we assume, though he has just admitted that he has only been commenting for 2 months
2 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Didn't feel like bothering with reddit before that. In all honesty, I only just discovered it.
3 lucycohen 2015-10-29
Kabukikitsune "Didn't feel like bothering with reddit before that. In all honesty, I only just discovered it."
You're addicted to Reddit lol
2 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Pretty much. I hate to admit it, but pretty much. Is there some kind of "AA" group I can attend. (lol)
1 DirtyBird9889 2015-10-29
Why has it been a long time coming? Is there some initiative they are pushing that you disagree with? What was the nature of the ethics issue?
0 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Hostile work environment. I answered this in a previous question.
(corrected spelling)
7 theactualsharkem 2015-10-29
Do you believe the official 911 conspiracy theory?
15 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Honestly, after seeing what radiant heat can do to metal, no. I don't believe any of the 9/11 conspiracy theories.
I remember one of our maint guys had accidentally left a spanner (wrench) in one of the kilns after working on something. That kiln only ran up to 1200 degrees. In any case, once he removed it, you could break it with little to no effort. However it hadn't really been directly affected, and at a glance seemed fine (if a bit dulled). The heat had simply burned the carbon out of it, and in doing so rendered it unable to hold any strength. It hadn't melted though, which was important.
10 Maxwyfe 2015-10-29
Guys, he's given an honest answer to a direct question. Don't downvote him just because you don't agree with him.
3 JamesColesPardon 2015-10-29
I know right?
A spanner is totally like structural steel and a kiln is totally like the explosions on 9/11.
6 mindhawk 2015-10-29
sure the thermodynamics of a common wrench in a kiln well models structural steel doused with burning jet fuel
sounds legit
/s
edit moved models to correct place in sentence
3 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
http://www.engineersedge.com/manufacturing_spec/properties_of_metals_strength.htm
fire.nist.gov/bfrlpubs/fire05/PDF/f05158.pdf
(the above is a nist document on the mechanical properties of steel)
Whatever the case, it's worth noting that the shear point of structural steel is .75 tons per square inch. This is the amount of pressure exerted over a specific area required to cause the steel to sheer, or to tear. This is a standard across all types of steel, with cast elements like cast iron having a higher shear tonnage.
2 mindhawk 2015-10-29
wasnt wtc steel treated and coated and only heated by the fuel fire over a small area and for short duration?
even if it melted those few near the plane strikes that doesnt explain the freefall collapse or how the pits burned for months.
it doesnt hinge on the jet fuel melting
the buildings needed to be demolished because asbestos and the missing pentagon money and to give israel free reign over palestine
multiple dod agencies warned of the attack
it was not incompetence, it was not obl, it was the deep state, there is no other explanation even close to fitting
its a test for gullibility, if you believe the official story i just note youre a gullible person and move on, usually
6 Greg_Roberts_0985 2015-10-29
Not even the "official" 9/11 conspiracy theory
4 BadGuy75 2015-10-29
What happened to building 7? If the other towers fell because burning fuel weakened the steel, why did WTC 7 fall in the same way if it wasn't hit by a plane?
3 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
One of the things about 7 that people often forget, is that the building had the NYPD command center for emergencies in it. One of the floors, I forget which, was taken up by massive diesel fuel tanks which was used to supply power to a generation facility in the building. The idea being that if power went off in the rest of the city, then the command center would be able to produce its own power.
4 R_Blythe90 2015-10-29
My bullshit detector is going off like crazy now, is this thread a joke?
1 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
http://harris.com/
http://i.imgur.com/STE9RkT.jpg?1
1 dudeareyoufuckingser 2015-10-29
Posting a picture that demonstrates ownership of a lanyard from a company that currently contracts with the Department of Defense is not proof of anything at all.
2 Greg_Roberts_0985 2015-10-29
There were no diesel fuel fires in or near the area of initiating event that led to the implosion of WTC 7
NIST even conceded the diesel fuel fire hypothesis on December 18, 2007, it appears you are the one who has forgot
So with your theory blown out of the window, what other theory do you have? Also how do you explain how a skyscraper can go into literal freefall?
1 thegr8rambino13 2015-10-29
And so why/how did it just collapse on its own?
1 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Well, when you've got upwards of a thousand or more gallons of diesel burning unchecked for a long period of time, it's reasonable to expect it would undermine the structure.
5 Greg_Roberts_0985 2015-10-29
Right, but this never happened, so your claim is not reasonable in the slightest.
1 thegr8rambino13 2015-10-29
How did the diesel catch on fire?
1 inbetweentime 2015-10-29
Just wondering if you're even aware that the building fell at free-fall? Meaning there was no resistance between floors?
3 BurninEpix 2015-10-29
Dam, you just lost some credibility with me and I'm sure many others. I do appreciate you giving your honest opinion regardless of what others may think of you though.
7 smokinbluebear 2015-10-29
Since 1993, every government agency has been required to submit to a yearly audit--yet DoD has never done so...What would happen if there was an actual audit?
edit: added "DoD"
9 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Heads would roll. There is no way in hell that they could explain so many of the overages.
5 calledawarnobodycame 2015-10-29
I know you may not know or can't say even if you did... but there is a treaty banning WMD's from deployment in orbit/space. In your opinion is that treaty likely being adhered to, or not? Secondly, how much weaponry (non WMD) would you "guess" is in orbit/space, some? a lot? or more-than-enough aka shitloads?
4 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
I think that the WMD thing is being adhered to, in as much as you don't see nuclear missiles hanging around up there; however beyond that, I can't say. Not that I'm not allowed to, but rather that I'm not certain.
I do know that it's possible to de-orbit something like a GPS sat and drop it pretty much where ever you would want. While most of it would burn up in orbit, there would still be enough material there to level a small city on impact. So, it kinda makes me think that what would be the point of sticking a WMD up there, when you have dozens if not more handy sats you could plunk on something?
2 drewshaver 2015-10-29
A GPS sat would level a small city? Do you have a source on that? Seems incredibly unlikely to me.
3 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
A small city. It's based around the idea of kinetic energy rounds. Keep in mind, that giant crater out in the desert, the meteor that made it was about 150 feet across. The crater it made is one mile across and 500 feet deep. Your average GPS sat is about 20 feet across. While it wouldn't create as much a crater, the energy released from such a hit would equal the force from the Hiroshima bomb.
1 calledawarnobodycame 2015-10-29
http://www.cracked.com/article_16477_5-famous-sci-fi-weapons-that-theyre-actually-building_p4.html
5 Venemouse 2015-10-29
Can you find my dad?
4 NoelTrotsky 2015-10-29
What do you think of the US being able to fly a bunch of helicopters into Abbattabad Pakistan without being detected by radar during the OBL operation? I think it's impossible but I'm no radar expert!
5 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Entirely possible, and common really. From a simple technology point of view, Radar itself is actually VERY limited in what it can and can not detect. Meaning that once you get under a certain altitude (usually in the 2000 foot range) whatever's up there simply won't show up on radar.
Edit: Let me clarify. First I was eating and kinda gave you a short answer.
Ok, to explain, even though the radar waves go out, in many ways they're like light. Meaning they go in a straight direction. They don't really angle up, or down that much. At a certain altitude, like I said, in the 2000 foot range, you start running into situations where background noise becomes a problem. You might shoot out a beam, only to have it strike a structure, tree, hill, mountain, or cloud. It comes beaming back and you've suddenly got a ghost return. Meaning that any aircraft flying below this, while not actually OFF radar as you might expect, is instead lost in the background clutter. What makes things worse, is in some cases military strikes have been known to use known civ corridors (we saw the side effect of this in the Ukraine), in an effort to fool the radar techs into thinking that they're seeing a commercial flight.
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3 Dude_wtf_seriously 2015-10-29
Are there any conspiracies that you personally think are more likely real given your insider info?
7 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
I think its more that there are some that I suspect are red herrings. I worked pretty extensively with high temperature kilns (2800 degrees F) that were used to make various ceramics parts. It didn't take me long to note that these things could not only be used as crematoria, but would render anything inside them to less than ash. Considering their size, you could reasonably destroy eighty to 100 bodies in a single go. Based on this I started looking closer at the FEMA concentration camp theories and more and more found that they seemed "too good to be true" in numerous aspects. Meaning they seemed more to be a red herring than anything.
There are some that do intrigue me, which seem viable in relative terms. One being the fact that some of what we were making relied on technology that even the engineers noted "we don't really know WHY this works." The R2A aspect of things went through a sudden leap in technology around the start of WW2, going from using natural crystals to complex piezoelectric (ceramic) systems with little to no moving parts. It just seems strange that such a sudden leap would be made, with no sudden announcement in regards to it.
This really makes me wonder just where such technology came from. The fact that now we have sensor systems which have no moving parts, but are able to pick up even the most minute sounds...well it does make you wonder.
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4 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
I can't talk about that, but only because of family ties to that whole scenario. The TLDR of it: One of my third cousins was, at the time of Roswell, the lead civilian in charge of the skunk works at Wright-Patterson.
3 BurninEpix 2015-10-29
Your killing me here.
4 lmfaopizza 2015-10-29
Operation Paperclip, man.
2 [deleted] 2015-10-29
It came from our friendly visitors, not from germans.
1 Reclaimer69 2015-10-29
Why not both?
2 arggabargga 2015-10-29
How much money is wasted yearly in your department?
edit: glad you're out. Congrats and good luck in your new venture.
3 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Well, it depends. I know there's a perpetual contract with the US navy that gains the company around 289 million dollars a year, just to provide sonar systems.
2 fuufnfr 2015-10-29
Is there a split, like good guys and bad guys, like those working for the Cabal and those opposed to it? If so, is it well known or are most oblivious to it?
Thanks.
3 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
There's a split. You have guys like me who were there just for the paycheck, or because they really had no other options. Then, on the other side you have people who...how do I put this? They know that there's more going on, and could care less but it would take effort.
2 sloblow 2015-10-29
Any info regarding the conspiracy theory about massive underground bases, especially beneath the ocean floor?
2 swim32 2015-10-29
Is the DOD/pentagon/cia/any agency involved in using raves, festivals, electronic music, etc to study psychology, crowd control or psychoactive substances?
Np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/36xkrd/strange_happenings_regarding_edm_festivals_raves/
2 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
It would make sense for the CIA to be toying around with that. There's the whole Polybius thing from the early 80's that had their fingerprints all over it.
2 mustardman 2015-10-29
Wow! I thought Polybius was an urban legend. Do you have any more info?
1 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
I'm not sure myself. I know for a fact that around that time the CIA were poking around with mind altering drugs and how they might be used to affect soldiers...so it stands to reason that they may have tried something.
2 DaneelR 2015-10-29
Bullshit ama with no proof is bullshit.
1 Semune90 2015-10-29
I honestly have to agree with you.
One of the top comments has him basically saying "9/11 wasn't an inside job because of a kiln getting hot" and that he doesn't believe in any conspiracy theories.
Conspiracy theories are just going against what we're told as truth, how can there be none? That's infinitely more of an absurd statement than there being conspiracies.
On top of all that, there's no proof, at all, and he isn't giving any information that he "learned while at the DoD".
My bullshit detector is on 100%.
-1 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
The company I worked for is Harris. They recently purchased Exelis, formerly of ITT. The purchase was for 4.75 billion dollars, putting Harris at being the number 8 defense contractor.
3 DavidAAxelrod 2015-10-29
could you please provide some proof of your rather wild claims?
some redacted check stub, letterhead, etc...
anything?
1 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Let me charge my phone and take a photo of my Harris lanyard from the site.
Gimme about 10 min to get a minimal charge and transfer the photo off it to Imgur.
1 DavidAAxelrod 2015-10-29
thanks! this will settle many questions!
2 R_Blythe90 2015-10-29
41 minutes later and his phone isn't charged? Interesting.
1 DaneelR 2015-10-29
Provide us with some actual proof. Anyone can read about mergers and claim absurd stuff on the internet.
2 Ace-Azzameen 2015-10-29
So full of shit.
2 Btbamfan89 2015-10-29
Not good proof. I have a Harris lanyard, mug, and organizer folder and I'm not DOD
1 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
prove it.
1 Btbamfan89 2015-10-29
Lol no. Not saying you're lying, just that it's not good proof. I also have a Harris radio manual from a class I attended.
1 theactualsharkem 2015-10-29
Are there many others there who are of a similar mindset?
2 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Yes. Most of the rank and file such as me, know that some of what we're doing isn't what I'd call in the best interests of the nation; but the problem is there isn't a whole hell of a lot we can do about it. In the past month, no less than six people have left over ethical concerns. Some in regards to a change in policy in regards to hiring, but one just before me from the same area who had a similar issue to mine.
3 theactualsharkem 2015-10-29
You guys should get together and talk to local press or look into taking legal action.
2 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Wouldn't do us any good. The press tend to like the companies we work with, and are willing to cover up any major problems. Case in point, at another site (not mine, nor did I have control over its waste water system) it was discovered that they were leeching heavy metals like mercury into the ground water. This stuff was turning up in the city water systems, and people were getting severely sick. Yet, the only thing that was ever reported was the fact that the city in question would be on bottled water for over a YEAR, even though their water system was given a clean bill of health.
1 BurninEpix 2015-10-29
I agree with you on this. Unless you have some type of epic bombshell, going to the press is only gonna make your life hell and more than likely will have little to no influence or actual change on anything. Stay strong!
1 [deleted] 2015-10-29
Have you heard of Thomas Drake? No? That's why no one else goes public, goes to the press, or takes legal action.
If you have heard of him, well, the point remains the same. Nothing will happen, the only people who will get in trouble are the whistleblowers. It's like one man or a small group trying to go up against the mafia by 'going to the media' or 'taking them to court'...the only thing that happens is the mafia destroys them.
1 [deleted] 2015-10-29
What nations did you deal with and in what capacity? What are those nations up to that is interesting or different than we usually hear?
6 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Well, to start off, an Israeli company has discovered a cure for brain cancer which works off of microburst sonar. The company (owned by the Israeli government) goes by the name "novocure." The treatment itself is VERY expensive (tens of thousands of dollars per treatment), but it's 99% effective at killing brain cancer. It's so effective that the FDA waived the typical 10 year test period after two years to push it into full production.
On the other side of things, several Nato countries are taking orders of new Mk54 torpedoes. These torpedoes are primarily anti submarine torpedoes, however they can be used for anti surface. What makes them so unnerving is the Mk54 is able to be programmed with the blade count of a specific ship, and will avoid any escort vessels. Supposedly, the torpedo can be fired into a port, where it will sink to the bottom and lie in wait up to a month before going for its pre programmed target.
1 [deleted] 2015-10-29
Holy shit. Good stuff. Any links to info on any of this? Have you ever heard of Fred Bell and the X1 Healing Machine? Sounds very similar to the novocure thing. Have you seen the Keshe energy generator that just came out? What's your thoughts on that and have you seen anything similar?
What is the general sense you get from the higher-ups? Was your boss such a cunt because he was overwhelmed/incompetent or because he was arrogant/overconfident?
1 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
http://www.novocure.com/
I think my direct boss was more incompetent than anything.
Here's the thing, I can tell you that the Keshe stuff is just snake oil. However I can also tell you that there is a true clean energy/free energy thing that would work; but no nation wants to do it.
Piezoelectrics are unique ceramics which, when under pressure, they generate electrical current. The higher the pressure, the higher the current. If you put a current to them, they vibrate. (granted you can't really see or feel this, but they do it.)
If a country wanted to create true free, and perfectly clean electricity, then all they would need do is submerge several miles of piezoelectric ceramic cables (or something similar) on the bottom of the ocean. The pressure alone would create enough energy to run a city. Granted, you would need a very LARGE area of coverage to do this, but the end result would be electricity which cost nothing to generate, and produced zero pollution, as well as had zero environmental impact.
2 BillManfrengensen 2015-10-29
So, how large exactly? I mean if a person had some of these cables, installed them into a large air compressor and pressurized it, how much current would it make? Like say you have a big 120 gallon air compressor with as much cable as you could fit into it, then you closed it up and put pressure on it....how much are we talking about? I know, I just asked the exact same question in two ways. so sue me.
3 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Well, that's a hard question. It depends on the size of the ceramic involved. Typically, you're actually talking something that's rather small. So in the 2 inch diameter range. Usually smaller.
An example of applications in this area is the electric cigarette lighter, where pressing a button causes a spring-loaded hammer to hit a piezoelectric crystal, thereby producing a sufficiently high voltage that electric current flows across a small spark gap, heating and igniting the gas. Most types of gas burners and ranges have a built-in piezo based injection systems.
1 BillManfrengensen 2015-10-29
I was just curious if this was something that could be adapted to be an in home generator or something. I'm clueless about this stuff and its applications. I figured, pressurized cables=get electricity...but on this scale I'm assuming it probably won't make enough to run the compressor itself.
1 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
You'd need something the size of an acre or more of land to produce enough energy to supply a home.
0 BillManfrengensen 2015-10-29
Ok thanks, pretty cool stuff though.
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1 Maxwyfe 2015-10-29
Low cost, low impact electricity? Why aren't we doing this? What's the downside?
1 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
To electrify one city, you'd need a piezoelectric matrix the size of that city.
2 Maxwyfe 2015-10-29
For example: Los Angeles covers 500 sq miles (I think). A 500 sq mile grid, granted would take a long time to construct. But that grid would provide clean, cheap (let's face it, no one's going to build it if they can't make money off it) electricity for 18 million people. Can you imagine the environmental impact and cost savings by powering just one city this way?
1 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Yeah. Even if the system was only used for certain cities, such as large ones like LA, or NYC, then the overall offset to the environment would be considerable. Plus, the worst case scenario for it would be needing to fix a cable or something. No 3 mile island, Fukishima, or Chernobyl.
1 NoelTrotsky 2015-10-29
My understanding of this type of power generation is that it requires changing mechanical stress and not the constant stress that undersea cables would provide. DARPA dropped it's soldier boots that harvested electricity from simple walking due to discomfort. Well, they publicly dropped it while it may have gone dark.
Anything more you can mention about the undersea cables idea?
1 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
I was in college at the time, and I've only heard about it in passing. However it seemed like the whole thing that was being proposed was to use a varying depth type scenario. Meaning that the system would vary its depth by only a few meters over the span of a day to create the electric charge.
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They've had to have tried this then at some point right?
1 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
There was a proposal to do it back in 97, but Congress felt that the technology just wasn't there, so they let it die in committee.
1 jacks1000 2015-10-29
How were the chicks?
1 Indra-Varuna 2015-10-29
What is your religion and ethnicity?
4 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
White, and Buddhist.
1 Indra-Varuna 2015-10-29
A Jewbu?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Buddhist
6 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Redneck. Born in Alabama, raised Methodist. Converted to Buddhism about six years ago.
2 Indra-Varuna 2015-10-29
Most converts to Buddhism in America are jews, never met a White Southern guy who converted to Buddhism.
1 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Lived in Greenwood most of my life until I started moving around. I got tired of dealing with the sterotypical rednecks and racists, and after talking with a few people I started to question things.
0 [deleted] 2015-10-29
yeah of course you have this guy "indra varuna" come into the thread to inject something about jews - because he just can't help himself, he loves them so much.
1 jarxlots 2015-10-29
What type of encryption was used for the communication of simple messages (SMTP, something proprietary)? What type of encryption was used for stored (data at rest) data?
1 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
I assisted in production, not programming. Sorry.
1 jarxlots 2015-10-29
Np. Thanks for doing the AMAA.
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1 evanreyes 2015-10-29
Not a question for me. But, id just like to point out that at this point, Russia and China couldn't deal with a war against NATO/other US allies. Militarily they're outmatched, but more importantly they couldn't keep up economically. They'd fall apart after a while.
1 Wh1teCr0w 2015-10-29
Thanks for doing the AmA. Are you able to speak on anything regarding the UFO subject in relation to your work? Are you privy to how the DoD deals with such cases?
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1 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
I honestly can't answer the first. I could guess, but that would just be a guess and it wouldn't help.
To answer the second, I think rather considerably, but through proxy. I know just recently, ITT was hit with a number of serious sanctions after it was discovered they had been illegally transporting classified materials (it does not specify what these were) out of the country. This wasn't the first time something similar had happened. Though it's from a communist blog/website, here's a previous incident.
http://www.cpgb-ml.org/index.php?secName=proletarian&subName=display&art=497
https://electronicintifada.net/content/activists-convicted-weapons-factory-trespass-vow-keep-exposing-illegal-arms-trade/11659 The second is an article that goes into some detail of the past transgressions.
Quote the above:
The defense argued that by supplying weapons components to the US, EDO is in breach of the Cluster Munitions Prohibitions Act of 2010, which makes it illegal in UK law to assist the use of cluster munitions anywhere in the world. The act is the UK implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, an international treaty adopted in Dublin in 2008.
(note: EDO was Exelis. The name changed sometime in 2010 I think.)
1 Semune90 2015-10-29
It kind of makes me sick that this post is at 52 upvotes right now.
Look at all of his comments, they're mocking of conspiracies.
This is obviously a set up, come on guys.
2 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
http://i.imgur.com/STE9RkT.jpg?1
Does that look like a set up to you?
http://harris.com/
2 Semune90 2015-10-29
You still came up with an extremely bullshit reason as to why WTC 7 fell, compared the towers falling to a kiln being hot, and have provided absolutely nothing new.
This AMA is nothing but "What are your thoughts on"... You should be providing new controversial subjects that we haven't heard a million times.
1 [deleted] 2015-10-29
thanks for trying, it must be pretty disheartening for any "whistleblower" to try to 'come out' with their experience in any way when this is the type of response they get.
I think talking to the common man just makes people think "wow, this is why the government thinks they are all idiots, I guess they're right and I should just keep doing my job".
1 toromio 2015-10-29
I've been watching this page for a while, the DoD spending reports. Basically every weekday the DoD publishes the public contracts awarded. On most days there are half a billion dollars awarded. Yesterday was a light day around 582 million. It isn't uncommon to see several billion dollars get awarded in a single day.
A lot of this is maintenance for things that we own like repairs to ships, etc., and nearly all of it could be argued that these are American jobs. But I do get frustrated when I see new weaponry contracts, money being spent to build weapons that (I feel) no one should be making.
On most days I'm outraged at the amount of money being spent, especially when major media runs a big campaign that focuses on some big scandal where a much smaller amount is involved. IE: we committed to spending 1.5 Billion dollars today on weapons we shouldn't be buying, but oh hey, this politician just stole $75,000, so pitchforks!
Do you have any thoughts in general about DoD spending? I would imagine that this only represents a part of the spending that actually occurs. Would a "black ops" project be listed here too? I would guess not, but I'm curious.
1 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Black projects, such as the old project for the SR71, are not part of any official budget. There's a "fund" of sorts that's they use to give money to projects, without actually specifically putting information out about just what those projects were.
In my old company email, we'd get this list of various projects that the company had managed to secure. Some of them made a great deal of sense, such as the production of a new type of sonogram equipment that has better definition. Other times, you were left really wondering what the point was.
Where I'm located there are two sites. One does the Piezoelectrics, while another does carbon fiber parts for aircraft. I remember a few months back how the company announced how proud they were to have secured a contract to make a portion of the F-35's weapons launch system. The contract was easily a billion dollar contract. Problem was, that launch system really didn't work as intended. While yes, portions of it worked, as a whole the system just couldn't be made to do what it was supposed to; and thus was going to end up costing the government billions more to fix.
It's stuff like that that really bothered me. I could understand pouring all manner of dollars into major weapons systems, if those systems actually worked like they were supposed to. HOWEVER, when you plunk money down like there's no tomorrow on something that you're not 100% sure is going to work in the first place? It just doesn't make sense to me. It never did, and it never will. Let me see if I can drag up a good example for you.
http://www.exelisinc.com/News/PressReleases/Pages/Exelis-to-produce-carriage-and-release-systems-for-MQ9-Reaper.aspx
Ok, I was there when this one came across our news. It was also one of the ones that seriously bothered me. It's a weapons deployment module for an unmanned drone. There are some advances to it, not the least of which being a far lighter construction than the standard type. Now on one hand you could argue that this would let the drone fly longer with the same amount of fuel. On the other hand, it seems to me that it would allow the drone to carry more weaponry, since the light weight of the deployment system would offset any added on munitions.
http://www.exelisinc.com/business/electronicsys/pressreleases/Pages/default.aspx This is a list that covers all contracts obtained by the company, up to May 2015 when it was purchased by Harris.
0 76one 2015-10-29
What are you even allowed to say right now?
0 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
A surprising great deal. Mostly I just can't talk about processes, and specifics into how things are constructed.
0 natavism 2015-10-29
What did you work on?
What kind of ethics violations?
Seems fake
4 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
R2A. Radar, Recon, and Acoustics. Typically Sonar packages and the LWWAA system for the NSSN series of Submarine.
The ethic violation came over a long term issue. Basically, the supervisor I had would routinely single out employees and tell them that they quote "weren't a good fit" or that they needed to quit. He would also contact them on their personal phones for this same reason. In my case, he was outright telling me that I was the reason the department looked bad, and was adding on far more job duties than I was supposed to have. I was a waste water tech who helped out with other duties. However he expected me to either work extra hours (for no pay), or he would refuse my PTO even though I had valid hours for it.
6 DirtyBird9889 2015-10-29
Can you shed any light on this?
Why would the DoD take these systems down for the month of September. Can you shed any light on the nature of the military activities?
3 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
I don't know off hand, but I do remember hearing something about a software issue that was tied to the China hacks. It was never confirmed, but the general agreement was that the Chinese had somehow corrupted several key computer systems. Beyond that, I have no actual first hand knowledge. As I noted, I worked primarily in Waste treatment, as well as some in production.
3 DirtyBird9889 2015-10-29
Can you expand upon what you mean by Waste treatment? What does a typical day of managing waste treatment for the DoD look like?
Were you involved in dealing this the recent mine spill in the midwest?
1 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
That was near us, but no. We had nothing to do with that.
Basically, waste treatment deals with the water used during production. Mostly you're talking water that is being used to cool parts during cutting, but also water which was used to clean areas.
I would go on duty at 9pm (though I would arrive earlier). Once on site, my first task was to take a status of all the systems which I monitored, including temperatures of various production kilns, and the numerous water sensors. The kilns, though not directly part of my job, were an important part so they relied on operations (my actual job title) to monitor them.
Once I had the status down, knowing that all the systems were working properly, I would take a sample reading from the settling tanks, as well as the holding pond. This sample was tested for the presence of numerous types of heavy metals, and would go in a log.
Every hour, I would repeat the process of taking samples, and testing. I also took time to check water usage, how much we were recycling back into the system, and how much was being discharged from the holding pond into the municipal treatment system.
The holding pond itself held water that had been treated no less than two times, and was actually potable (drinkable) though it lacked things like chlorine and flouride.
2 DirtyBird9889 2015-10-29
Interesting. Can you say anything about what you were producing? Weapons/vehicles I assume?
If you found that there was a high level of heavy metals in the water you sampled what would your next course of action be? Were you checking to ensure they stayed below a certain level or were you just logging the results?
How was it decided how much water was recycled and how much was put through the municipal treatment system? What was the ideal balance (if there was one)?
Are you saying that the holding pond water remained potable even after it was used to cool the parts during cutting?
2 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Sonar and sensor systems primarily.
We tried to keep the usual concentrations at .005 parts per million. The standard for municipal systems, as set by the EPA is .1 parts per million. So higher standards than your average tap water.
The water we recycled would go into the cooling and parts cutting, but it was not returned to the holding pond until well after the treatment process. The pond itself was just a place to hold the excess water after the secondary treatment. By that point it was just a matter of how full the pond was, and how much water we had taken in through regular use. If for example, it had rained recently, we'd let out a few thousand gallons of water to keep the level from overflowing. On the other hand, if it was a particularly dry season, we'd hold the water back so it meant we didn't put as much a strain on the municipal system.
There really wasn't any one deciding factor for it, though it averaged out to a 1:1 ratio. So, for every one we used, we tried to put one back. This didn't always happen, of course, but we still tried.
Oh, almost missed the question of what I would do.
If I found that there was a high level of heavy metals, I would immediately shut the site down. All production, regardless of whether it used water or not, would stop. Any discharge would also stop, and I would contact the site director, the ESH personnel, and then hazardous waste containment. From that point on they would deal with it. There was always a Haz mat team on standby just in case something went wrong. Only had to call them once, after a line broke and dumped the sludge out into the site itself. Cleanup took a week, with all our water (treated or otherwise) being trucked off to a secure facility for treatment.
0 DirtyBird9889 2015-10-29
How many others shared the role you did, and were any of the others (if any) experiencing the same conflict that you were?
0 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Five.
And yes, there were some conflicts like I had. The most recent was a guy who was like a brother to me. He'd been with us five years, and like me he just got to the point that he could no longer deal with it.
Before him, there was another operator who simply walked in and told them to take the job and shove it.
1 DirtyBird9889 2015-10-29
Does it seem to you that your department is just pinching pennies or does it feel like you and your peers are being forced out for some other reason?
1 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
It's entirely probable that there are alternative reasons. The whole "toe the line" type of situation seems to really come into play. If you're not a company man, so to speak, you have no real future.
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Any work with HAARP type phased arrays? Any experience with directed energy devices?
-1 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Radar, Recon, and Acoustics, with some delving into ELINT. (my primary job was water treatment.)
-1 [deleted] 2015-10-29
What can you say about water treatment? Are you talking about chemical purification? Are there any directed energy treatments of water?
-3 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Nah, we used a filtration system. Primarily a DE system with an emulsifier. DE being diatomaceous earth. DE as a filter media, when used with an Alar (company name) vacuum system removes 99.99% of all particulate matter in one treatment. We treated the water twice, just to be certain.
https://youtu.be/hGU5ll6bCKQ
That's the type of system we used.
-2 [deleted] 2015-10-29
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2 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
What one person does, regardless of who they work for, can often make it special. It's more a question of allowing you to see beyond the usual and into places where you might otherwise not. Not unlike a person who works in customer service stepping back and talking about the various things they do that the average customer doesn't know about.
1 peterson2004 2015-10-29
Maybe take it down a notch, everyone is a hero in their own way. I let a guy merge in front of me today without losing my cool. Happy cake day, jerk.
-5 billdietrich1 2015-10-29
"a supervisor will most likely lose their job" doesn't quite sound like "a MAJOR ethics investigation going on".
3 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
Considering he's been there over 18 years? It's major for what it is.
-6 billdietrich1 2015-10-29
Well, "major" would seem more like "dozens of people in trouble, millions of dollars wasted/stolen, Congress investigating, a General might be retired, etc".
2 BurninEpix 2015-10-29
I would stop while your behind.
-1 billdietrich1 2015-10-29
Downvotes don't bother me. So OP is butthurt that I'm not impressed by his "one supervisor in trouble" scandal.
Some examples of what I would call a "major" scandal:
http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/04/hookers-cash-parties-and-swords-top-ex-dod-official-arrested-for-massive-corruption-scheme/
http://m.nsvrc.org/news/news-field/19916
http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/04/scandal-plagued-pentagon-isnt-reviewing-ethics-standards/
1 BurninEpix 2015-10-29
I wasn't referring to downvotes.
1 Kabukikitsune 2015-10-29
That was near us, but no. We had nothing to do with that.
Basically, waste treatment deals with the water used during production. Mostly you're talking water that is being used to cool parts during cutting, but also water which was used to clean areas.
I would go on duty at 9pm (though I would arrive earlier). Once on site, my first task was to take a status of all the systems which I monitored, including temperatures of various production kilns, and the numerous water sensors. The kilns, though not directly part of my job, were an important part so they relied on operations (my actual job title) to monitor them.
Once I had the status down, knowing that all the systems were working properly, I would take a sample reading from the settling tanks, as well as the holding pond. This sample was tested for the presence of numerous types of heavy metals, and would go in a log.
Every hour, I would repeat the process of taking samples, and testing. I also took time to check water usage, how much we were recycling back into the system, and how much was being discharged from the holding pond into the municipal treatment system.
The holding pond itself held water that had been treated no less than two times, and was actually potable (drinkable) though it lacked things like chlorine and flouride.