Hawaii Under Missile Attack !

[resister]

https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/0...rned-his-fate/

[Peter1469]

Rid the entire staff of anti-Trumpers.

It is Hawaii- that would likely be the entire islands.

[Tahuyaman]

This story is bizarre. How could anyone develop an emergency alert system of this magnitude which can be activated by one idiot pushing the wrong button? Then taking more than 35 minutes to tell everyone a mistake was made is even more bizarre. that being said, I'm sure it's Trump's fault. If not him, it's Bush's fault m

[MisterVeritis]

It is Hawaii- that would likely be the entire islands.

I know. I lived there for about five years.

[Peter1469]

I know. I lived there for about five years.

I visited for 5 days when I left Korea.

[MisterVeritis]

I visited for 5 days when I left Korea.

I routinely rotated to Korea (and other places) from Hickam AFB.

[Peter1469]

I routinely rotated to Korea (and other places) from Hickam AFB.

I was in Korea from 89-90 and then 2000-2002.

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - dat's what happens when ya let gubmint run things...

Hawaii False Alarm Prompts Plans for FCC Investigation
14 Jan 2018 - Saturday's errant ballistic-missile alert to cell phones, televisions and radio stations in Hawaii has officials in Washington planning to find out what went wrong.

Federal Communication Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced plans for a probe via Twitter. "The @FCC is launching a full investigation into the false emergency alert that was sent to residents of Hawaii," Pai tweeted later Saturday. U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, praised Pai's decision to address an error that sent many Hawaii residents into a panic for about 40 minutes. "This system failed miserably and we need to start over," Schatz tweeted.

Local officials and the Navy's U.S. Pacific Command quickly recognized that the alert was a false alarm, but the system took about 40 minutes to send a corrective message to Hawaii residents, the Washington Examiner reported. The FCC has regulated the nation's wireless emergency alert system since 2012. But critics have pointed out a number of perceived flaws, such as messages being delivered to too wide a swath rather than the people most affected by an emergency, Reuters reported.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has announced plans for major improvements to the nation's wireless emergency alert system.

In December, officials from Harris County, Texas, told members of the FCC about problems they experienced in directing alerts to people most affected by Hurricane Harvey, the New York Times reported. In October, U.S. Sens. Kamala Harris and Dianne Feinstein, both D-Calif., wrote to Pai, saying that inefficient location-targeting had deprived some residents of receiving alerts, as wildfires raged across northern California, the Times reported. "These emergency services are caught in a bind between notifying individuals in imminent danger and risking mass panic," the senators wrote.

Just last week Pai proposed that service providers "deliver these alerts to match the geographic area specified by the officials sending the alert with no more overshoot than one-tenth of a mile." The FCC plans to vote this month on a plan to improve the emergency alert system so it better targets the people most affected by a given situation. Under such a proposed system, Pai said, Americans will "take more seriously the alerts they receive on their mobile devices."

https://www.military.com/daily-news/...stigation.html

[Peter1469]

Some government employee hit the wrong button. OK.

The real problem was the length of time it took to fix it.

[MisterVeritis]

I was in Korea from 89-90 and then 2000-2002.

I routinely rotated through there beginning in 89-93. Most of my missions were less than two weeks long.