Does Norfolk not exist anymore?
But NCIS came for them, and they don't come for you until they got all the proof they need.
but one of them being a Snipe and the other working at a Seabee base leads me to believe they weren't that in the know....and thought they had more valuable stuff than they were attempting to sell.
That's why I was an airdale...boat people stay fukkin up
None of this surprises me BTW. I had a Secret clearance as an AE and as part of my job had access to everything about the bird I worked on. Specs, manuals, reports and maintenance logs going back years, all of it. I'm sure they did too.
A clearance means "the US gov trusts you with this info. We checked as much as we could and you pass the test." Of course the higher in clearance you go the more info they dig up. For my Secret I was only interviewed once, and it was all formal public records shyt. But when I got out I got a job with the Feds and that required a TS/SCI, so I was interviewed 3x. My ex-wife, my mom, my sister, my 5 closest friends, they all got interviewed. Called previous jobs, college, all that shyt. They scraped every inch of my life. It's all lie detector kinda shyt, ask you the same question in different ways to see if you slip, get flustered/nervous, etc.
For trained ops like these PRC plants, those clearance interviews are cakewalks.