Internet Addiction: It's Not A Joke

The Manchester's first deployment, when the illegal Starlink was used. Quite dull until some schadenfreude at (15:00).

How Navy chiefs conspired to get themselves illegal warship Wi-Fi

The Manchester’s secret Wi-Fi network was born in March 2023, when Marrero and a co-conspirator got to work buying and installing the Starlink system before the ship’s deployment began the following month.

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It’s unclear who harnessed up and actually installed the system for Marrero due to redactions in the publicly released copy of the probe, but records show Marrero powered up the system the night before the ship got underway to the West Pacific waters of U.S. 7th Fleet.

Marrero and her cohorts paid $2,800 for a Starlink High Performance Kit with a personal credit card, and contacted Starlink to expedite shipping so the system would arrive in time for the deployment.

Worse than brewing jungle juice in a storage compartment.

And reminds us of the question: Does the Littoral Combat Ship have any purpose?

[Navy Times]