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"For official use only" or similar verbiage is not equivalent to "classification". Field manuals are generally more-or-less public domain knowledge, you can do
by fiatmoney 10y ago
"For official use only" or similar verbiage is not equivalent to "classification". Field manuals are generally more-or-less public domain knowledge, you can download most of them eg http://www.apd.army.mil/ProductMap.asp http://www.apd.army.mil/ProductMap.asp or from various other sources. "Classification" is mostly relevant to .gov actors, there's no general legal prohibition on reading or disseminating classified information. You can't open up the New York Times without being splattered by bits of theoretically classified information.
- fapjacks 10y agoThat's why the US government's reaction to Cablegate was so funny. I was still in the Army at the time, and memos were released saying not to read the news because it contained classified information. Like the news was some kind of Voldemort. It was pretty funny.
- jschwartzi 10y agoI clicked through the technical manuals section and was redirected to a page with a statement about unauthorized access. I would assume that there are some access controls on the material in question, but I didn't proceed past the initial statement.