there are words like
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submarine (relevant to q posts showing how close we are to happenings)
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missiles (nk parade and possible ds ff)
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satellite
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hunter (hunter biden)
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by the book
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russia
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alabama emergency message (relevant to q's first posts)
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Hunter escapes his arrest and gains the support of the weapons officer in the missile control room
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After several tense minutes, communications are restored and they finally see the full message from the second transmission.
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After returning to base, Ramsey and Hunter are put before a naval tribunal at Naval Station Pearl Harbor to answer for their actions
IMHO, Gene Hackman has been in a number of films with "interesting" plots.
If you are a movie buff, have the time, read through the wiki articles about the Hackman films below ... and consider:
If control over the MSM (film, entertainment and documentary, television, to include all programming, commercials, news broadcasts, newspapers, magazines, radio, book publishing, to include elementary, high school and college text books, fiction and non-fiction books, internet platforms, i.e. Facebook, twitter, etc. etc.) is 95% controlled by [competing criminally controlled] corporate conglomerates - whose ultimate battlefield is not competing directly with each other for customers, but for national political control through dominating access to information... if that Goliath is your opponent... just how might you prepare the information battle space when you have free access to just 5% of the resources. And that is just the domestic U.S. battle space... in short, Dorthy, I don't think we are in Kansas anymore.
Read the plot lines... watching the movies is much better, but reading the plot lines will do for now.
Prime Cut 1972
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Cut
The Conversation 1974
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation
The Domino Principle 1977
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Domino_Principle
March or Die 1977
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_or_Die_(film)
Power 1986
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(1986_film)
No Way Out 1987
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Way_Out_(1987_film)
The Package 1989
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Package_(1989_film)
The Firm 1993 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Package_(1989_film)
Absolute Power 1997
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_Power_(film)
Enemy Of The State 1998
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_Power_(film)
Hackman's character Brill in Enemy Of The State has these great lines.... but be sure to pay attention to what is going on in "background". The question is not so much who Q is, but when is Q.
ENEMY OF THE STATE (1998)
DVD / Chapter 22 - 1:39:32 -> 1:41:03
"If they are big and you are small,
You are mobile and they are not.
You only fight the battles you can win.
That's the way the Viet Cong did it.
You capture their weapons and then
Use them against them the next time.
That way they are supplying you.
You grow strong as they grow weak."
And the camera pans from left to right
In neon lights in the background...
Dark -> Light / Dark -> Light
What a coincidence.
https://youtu.be/7IQIjjfXbVs?t=5187 (timestamp / watch bar scene with dialog)
Here is where things start to unravel.
https://youtu.be/7IQIjjfXbVs?t=5660
Can't resist this little tidbit from Hackman's wiki page:
"In 1968 Gene Hackman appeared in an episode of I Spy, in the role of "Hunter"...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Hackman
Its story parallels a real incident during the Cuban Missile Crisis, albeit aboard a Soviet rather than a U.S submarine.
IMHO, NK parade was a bunch of fakes -- lame-looking conduits on them, and painted seemingly as one piece without a clear demarcation between stages.
In the movie, the emergency message system is actually the VLF EAM message system. IIRC Denzel's character did not gain the support of the weapons officer (Viggo Mortensen), rather, told the latter to make his choice about nuclear holocaust.
I think Q simply implies that they are at 1SQ, and getting ready to BOOM the enemy. A follow-on to the AC130 gunship post.