CTICS (IW/EXW) Shannon Kent
May 11, 1983 – January 16, 2019
CAPT George Paul McGinnis, USN was born May 11, 1919, in Iowa Park, TX. He graduated from Harlingen, TX, High School; Compton, CA Junior College (AA); University of California, Santa Barbara (BA); and University of West Florida (MS). In addition he completed postgraduate studies in electronics at Bowdoin College, Johns Hopkins University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also completed the communications engineering postgraduate course at Harvard University. He was the first cryptologic officer to graduate from the Naval War College, Newport, RI.
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CTM3 Matthew J. O’Bryant, KIA Southwest Asia
May 10, 1986 – September 20, 2008
Navy Rear Adm. Michael J. Vernazza for appointment to the grade of vice admiral, with assignment as commander, Naval Information Forces, Suffolk, Virginia. Vernazza is currently serving as commander, Fleet Information Warfare Command Pacific/Information Warfare Task Force (TF-501), Pacific, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. RADM Vernazza bio follows:
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RM1c Walter L. Rougeux was serving as an intercept operator in the USS NEW MEXICO (BB 40), the Flagship for Admiral Spruance during the Battle of Okinawa. The typical mission for an intercept operator was to provide Indications and Warnings (I&W) to the commander by copying the tracking messages that the Japanese used to plot their own aircraft en route to a strike.
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War is entering a new, and very frightening, domain.
Recent years have seen lively discussions about cognitive warfare, centering on the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). According to an October 5, 2022 piece in the PLA Daily, cognitive warfare is conflict in the cognitive domain formed from human consciousness and thoughts, which is believed to shape reality in a way favorable to China by influencing human judgment, changing ideas, and influencing the human mind through selective processing and propagation of information.
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