Blackout

In "chatting" with some other military parents and spouses in my son's division, it appears that there is one of the (luckily few) blackouts -- no phone calls, emails, etc. from our soldiers... I'm learning that these blackouts can occur for a number of reasons. For instance, if one or more soldiers are seriously injured or killed in action... and the event is reported identifying the FOB affected or the unit affected. The powers that be have determined (rightfully) that if the other soldiers from the affected units are allowed to communicate with those back home before the families of the injured soldiers have been officially notified, those families will actually get a kind of informal notification based on the LACK of contact with their soldiers. I'm led to believe this is the current case but I hope not. I can't find info of any major action in the units AO (area of operations...)

I also understand that if there has been a breach of OpSec (Operational Security) via telephones, email, etc. communications priviledges are restricted to remind soldiers that loose lips sink ships...

On the other hand, I also know these blackouts occur for other reasons: they can all get really busy and stay busy for long periods of time... and sometimes, the comm lines are down... broken.

I wish it was always that the comm lines were down. Hoping we all her from our guys soon...

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