The theory that OPSEC may have been breached would be valid if it were a directive from the Military. However, you are talking about a company whose management would make Saddam Hussein proud with their tactics of isolation, threats and control. If there were a real and imminent danger to personnel all cell phones would be banned for military and civilian alike and it would not be just personal cell phones. The military also monitors these communication devices but KBR cannot. KBR does monitor all of the phone systems on their network and in fact have used threats against personnel for calling the Ethics Hotline. One manager went so far as to The theory that OPSEC may have been breached would be valid if it were a directive from the Military. However, you are talking about a company whose management would make Saddam Hussein proud with their tactics of isolation, threats and control. If there were a real and imminent danger to personnel all cell phones would be banned for military and civilian alike and it would not be just personal cell phones. The military also monitors these communication devices but KBR cannot. KBR does monitor all of the phone systems on their network and in fact have used threats against personnel for calling the Ethics Hotline. One manager went so far as to take away business computers from employees, because personnel were contacting Houston Corporate to report his and his cronies incompetence and ineptitude.

This is nothing more than a thinly guised effort to cutoff communication and an attempt to keep their (management's) dirty little secrets under the rug.

The military personnel in Iraq are known to commonly refer to KBR as Kickbacks Bribes and Retribution.