The Defense Department historically does not reveal the locations of its submarines, since keeping the vessels’ movements secret is key to their missions.

Does Trump understand why that might be important to the Defense Department?  But, you see, it's not our navy ............ it's his navy, so he can do whatever he wants.  I'd really like to hear from someone who is currently, or was, in the navy.

Pentagon officials are alarmed by Trump’s disclosure. Revealing that submarines are in the region is not the same as addressing how many there are and that they are near North Korea, as Trump did.
 

Last edited by Just Fred (5/24/2017 2:29 pm)

Shortly after I completed communications school training in the Navy I was assigned to NAVCOMSTA WASHDC. It was a communication station that can best be described as something out of a Clancy novel. Remote, secure, and secret. One of the mission services provided by this outpost was submarine fleet broadcast. We would receive messages for the Atlantic submarine fleet and at scheduled times we would send those messages out. Those messages would run the gamut from notices to mariners, weather forecasts, operations plans, "familygrams", and more. All communications were sent over cryptological secure networks, and, in those days, were sent out by CW (Morse code). We never knew the location of the subs. Even when onboard ships at sea occasionally you would get a message from a sub in the area who would want to dump messages to your ship for forwarding on to the addressees. You were required to take these messages and forward them. The only time we would actually know the location of a sub was when they came to the surface within line of sight of your ship.

The reason for protecting the location of submarines should be obvious to anyone with half a brain. Unfortunately, it seems as though president Trump has less than half a brain.

Sad. Very sad.