I got a little too curious for my own good and I'm wondering if people can either dissuade me from my nonsense or help me out.
The story posted alongside the two USS Omaha videos by Jeremy Corbell is that both were taken from inside the ships Combat Information Center by Visual Intelligence Personnel.
From https://www.extraordinarybeliefs.com/news4/navy-ufo-radar-data
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence-class_littoral_combat_ship
My next port of call (ahem) was to look at The Drive article on the July activity.
From https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...us-drones-off-california-over-numerous-nights
From https://www.dvidshub.net/image/5601540/uss-russell-ddg-59
I did manage to find a single hit for all three keywords before the videos. The USS Omaha, with a Combat Information Center and a Viper team on it, are details in a fictional story published online by the Center for International Maritime Security in December 2019.
From https://cimsec.org/operation-tripolitan/
So this is where I need some assistance. Are the details attached to the videos drawn from an entirely fictional story? What is the cause of the mistaken attribution to a "Combat Information Center" and "VIPER team"? Were the videos actually taken on the USS Omaha?
The story posted alongside the two USS Omaha videos by Jeremy Corbell is that both were taken from inside the ships Combat Information Center by Visual Intelligence Personnel.
From https://www.extraordinarybeliefs.com/news4/navy-ufo-radar-data
Idly, I searched for any references to the USS Omaha and its CIC before the videos were posted. I discovered that the USS Omaha doesn't seem to have a Combat Information Center.This footage was filmed in the CIC (Combat Information Center) of the USS Omaha on July 15th 2019 in a warning area off San Diego by Visual Intelligence Personnel (VIPER team).
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence-class_littoral_combat_ship
The vessels have an Interior Communications Center that can be curtained off from the rest of bridge instead of the heavily protected Combat Information Center found on other Navy warships.
I was also unable to find any mention of "Visual Intelligence Personnel" at all before the videos were posted. For those wanting to check my methods, I searched key terms "Visual Intelligence Personnel" and "USS Omaha" "Combat Information Center" and restricted the time frame to before the publication of the videos.In February 2012, Secretary Mabus announced that the fifth ship of the class will be named Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10), and the sixth named Omaha (LCS-12).
My next port of call (ahem) was to look at The Drive article on the July activity.
From https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...us-drones-off-california-over-numerous-nights
Mick's pointed out on Twitter before the oddity of having both a "SNOOPIE team" and a "VIPER team". So could the videos released actually be from the USS Kidd, or another ship in that area that did actually have a Combat Information Center? The Omaha was in the same area as those ships, even though The Drive didn't report it being there. There are pictures of it with the USS Russell and the Kidd a few days afterwards in the Eastern Pacific.As previously reported, two drones, typically described as UAVs or unmanned aerial vehicles throughout the logs, were spotted by the Kidd. The Ship Nautical Or Otherwise Photographic Interpretation and Exploitation team, or "SNOOPIE team," refers to an onboard photographic intelligence team tasked with documenting unknown contacts, events of interest, and other objects of interest on short order.
From https://www.dvidshub.net/image/5601540/uss-russell-ddg-59
From https://www.dvidshub.net/image/5619587/uss-theodore-roosevelt-cvn-71(July 19, 2019) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Russell (DDG 59), left, the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney (DDG 91), center, and the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Omaha (LCS 12) travel in formation.
Where did the story of a Combat Information Center and VIPER team aboard the Omaha come from?(July 25, 2019) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd (DDG 100), front, the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney (DDG 91), middle, and the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Omaha (LCS 12) transit the Pacific Ocean. Kidd, Pinckney and Omaha are conducting routine operations in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
I did manage to find a single hit for all three keywords before the videos. The USS Omaha, with a Combat Information Center and a Viper team on it, are details in a fictional story published online by the Center for International Maritime Security in December 2019.
From https://cimsec.org/operation-tripolitan/
Omaha and Jackson had each taken aboard two companies of marine infantry and three Viper helicopters. Gabrielle Giffords embarked a team of maintainers for the Vipers, Marine logisticians, and pallets of small arms ammunition and food.
Oh also, the story takes place off of San Diego, another detail in the story attached to the videos.He could see tracers, presumably attempting to engage the Vipers, reaching toward the sky and sometimes crossing his field of view. The ship’s Combat Information Center had reestablished communications with the Vipers.
Examination of the latitude and longitude of the ship based on the radar video seems to suggest it was much closer to the Los Angeles coastline, although in my estimation that's not a clincher as San Diego is pretty close.It wasn’t until the ships were underway, leaving San Diego behind at a brisk 40 knots, that Omaha’s Commanding Officer, Captain Mark Dewitt, assembled the crew to explain the mission.
So this is where I need some assistance. Are the details attached to the videos drawn from an entirely fictional story? What is the cause of the mistaken attribution to a "Combat Information Center" and "VIPER team"? Were the videos actually taken on the USS Omaha?
