Yeppers I think there's a lot of extensive Communications involved with Plum Island at this point. The best understanding I have is there studying all kinds of animal disease which is highly classified, I'm not sure if you know but bird flu is slowly converting over from animals to humans especially in the Orient. Believe it or not they keep up with this stuff.
Back in the days in the '70s while in college I was a licensed State Bayman on the South Shore and a Clam Digger with all of the Town licenses with my own Garvey on the Great South Bay.
Parents lived in Westhampton Beach, on a canal.
Plum Island was always the source of all kinds of conspiracy theories.
I'll do a little research and see what I can find, brings back a lot of memories, all the radio communication on Long Island has changed since I left in approximately 1985.
The best understanding I have is there studying all kinds of animal disease which is highly classified, I'm not sure if you know but bird flu is slowly converting over from animals to humans especially in the Orient. Believe it or not they keep up with this stuff.
I can believe that a federal government agency is keeping up with the very latest trends in disease transmitted from animal to humans. I'm assuming there are people who have devoted decades and whole careers to this effort. When there is a government shutdown, the most essential of these have to keep working without knowing if this time, they won't get paid. Sometimes pay is delayed, especially if the shutdown is over two weeks (one pay period). All the silliness in the Congress, especially in the House, affects these people greatly. This is just one of thousands of programs that the public doesn't know much about, but exist to guard our health, safety, prohibit labor law violations, take on discriminatory practices, track diseases around the world, regulate aviation and other transportation, investigate transportation accidents, provide assistance to state and local governments, have enough experience to direct efforts to remove that bridge in the Baltimore area to mention just a few. Those agencies depend on people with knowledge, experience and dedication They all grind along, without much credit, but persevere while a bunch of yahoos in the Congress, who don't even want to know all the functions of government, who just want to cloud up the mixture to feed their own egos. There are three "Congressional Representatives" now, who fit this description very well. I won't mention the names of Matt, Lauren and Marjorie, even though I just did. And then there are those who support those people and the disruptions that result.
I went through two or three government shutdowns during my career with the U.S. Forest Service. When I finally got back to work the forest and recreation sites (although in the winter) were trashed, human excrement spread around restrooms, graffiti, and facilities vandalized. They called law enforcement officers "essential" and lower level forest protection officers like myself "non-essential." A two week shutdown meant a month of unpaid overtime every day for me to get things back into shape. Thank God, there weren't shutdowns in the summer or well into spring.
OK, now I will step off my soapbox . . . . .
I imagine the security of the animal laboratories has to be tight, to say the least, given the subjects being studied.
Yes but the NAC/Freq combo does (for us longtime FEDCommers) point to being Legacy CBP combination, which is where I think Marcy was going vs just the NAC alone