Naval Criminal Investigative Service

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So there was a complaint to our State Department.

And they send, it was the NIS back then, that time, not the NCIS.

and they said down in cuba do an investigation and one of the marines was a kid named alvarado it's santiago in the movie um he writes to his senator will bradley and says hey if you get me off the island because he didn't want to be there he was a bad brain he he would fell off post he wouldn't wear he wouldn't cut his hair right so if you get me off the island you know i'll tell you about this fence line shooting So the NRA comes down, you know, they have a, and so the captain says, well, you know, who's telling you about this fence line shooting? And he said, well, it's PFC Alvarado.

So the captain, who was actually played by Lieutenant Colonel Markinson, who testified, he didn't kill himself in the movie.

The movie kills himself.

And as you can imagine, these files are thick and it takes a lot of reading.

Because Sonny Groton was a chief petty officer in the Navy, Jackson takes advantage of additional investigative help from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, also known as NCIS.

Jeff Morrow is assigned to work the case.

There

If they're saying I want to be a Navy MA, I might say reconsider just because I know specifically how the rate of Navy MA is.

And they come to me and they're like, yeah, I'm going to join the Navy and I'm going to be a part of NCIS and I want to also be a K-9.

and I'm thinking your chances are like 1.5%.

You're going to go to a base that you probably don't like first, and I'm just being real and honest.

like, young man, you've got to work the streets for a couple years before you can do some shit like that.

Same thing with the military, too.

With young guys joining, they're like, like you said, NCIS.

It's like, I want to investigate.

And technology increases in such a way that you don't need so many people on the back end.

Like, for example, when I was with NCIS, we would do some operations through personas online.

that used to require a lot of people in counterintelligence roles of various levels and types, some support and some actually counterintelligence agents.

And you don't really need that as much anymore because now you've got really deep technological tool access that you could actually have one guy running like 50 personas.

Does that make sense? Yes.

No, what I'm saying here is this looks like a NCIS investigation on first taking the tapes and then all of a sudden them appearing again.

Exactly.

No, that's that's exactly.

Yeah.

But are you are you inferring or suggesting that that was like a cover up, like an FBI, you know, bulldoze the evidence into the Waco fire and wash off the butler roof? It certainly would certainly warrant an

NCIS investigation.

Yeah, for me, if I was that platoon chief or that team leader, and I didn't know where two of my guys were, and then I also over the comm say I got a possible KIA, I've never heard a possible KIA ever.