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DuuuDe14 posted...

Yeah that's what was told to at the time by my best friend who is in the marines. It's why when he was deployed we wrote letters to each other.

Yeah, (early on) in the war on terror there'd have been harsher restrictions but the whole world runs on instant communication nowadays that it'd be hard to enforce those kinds of rules for long periods of time.

We('re supposed to) do it for training periods at the Training Centers but that's usually only for 10-17ish days at a time depending on unit leadership, their willingness to actually follow up on their threat they'll track/know your cell phone use, and individual willingness to give up their phone.

In the mid 2010s they'd actually force you to turn your phone into someone and they'd hold them under lock and key for the duration of those training events but people would get broken/damaged phones back and the risk/cost became too high to warrant doing it that way for most units.

The more common way they manage OPSEC nowadays is just monitoring social media.