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Navy SEALs Face Disciplinary Action For Consulting On Medal of Honor

In the press and marketing for its military FPS Medal of Honor, Electronic Arts stressed that it was going for authenticity by consulting with active military personnel. Now, seven of the Navy SEALs that consulted with EA on the game are being disciplined by the military for revealing secrets.

CBS News is reporting that members of SEAL Team Six -- one of whom participated in the killing of notorious terrorist Osama Bin Laden -- will face disciplinary action for the revealing confidential information in during their time consulting on the game. The SEALs were paid for the work by Electronic Arts.

In addition, four members of SEAL Team Six who have moved to other parts of the military since working on Medal of Honor are under investigation. All the SEALs supposedly revealed classified information given to them by the Navy to EA.

According to the report, the seven who have been disciplined received "letters of reprimand" and had half of their pay docked for two months. Apparently, letters of reprimand have a cost to a military career, and have a negative impact on a SEAL's chances for further promotion within the Navy.

Source: CBS News via Kotaku

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  • I just saw this on yahoo... messed up. what 'secrets' could they have possible divulged during a VG consultation I'll never know...
  • THAT SUCKS. Medal of Honor sucks. EA sucks. Navy Seals don't deserve this. I HATE YOU EA.
  • Why should this stuff be secret? We deserve to know!
  • Good luck, EA.

  • Wow, I wonder how EA will react to this. Hopefully they step up and support the SEALs after this. I'm amazed that they could have released any secrets that could call for "reprimand". The SEALs are all heroes, hopefully this doesn't negatively effect their lives. Sad really.
  • Wow EA is bad but they messed up big this time.
  • Oh god... As much as I have sympathy for them, they had to know it was confidential. I try to support the troops however I can, but I don't know how to respond to this.
  • EA should reimburse them for the money they are losing and then some! Who's with me!?!?!?!!
  • aw. well, poor guys,

  • For the record, anyone saying that this is EA's fault, it's not, because the NAVY Seals had to know what was confidential and what they could and couldn't say to EA.
  • That game has done no good to anyone.
  • Gratitude to those SEALs for making this game freaking awesome!

  • And the game isn't even that good.
  • I have to wonder how this situation differs any from the movie Act of Valor, which followed a Navy Seal team through several missions... with the team played by active-duty Navy Seals.
  • how retarded can our government get this is coming from the same government that sold guns to mexican drug dealers that killed U.S. law enforcement, makes perfect since to me
  • I'll be honest, I think the Navy is okay. Only a handful or a couple thousand people bought this game, so the chances of the secrets getting into the wrong hands are VERY slim. HAHA Way to drop the ball yet again EA!
  • This is what happens when apathetic citizens let their government keep too many secrets.
  • That kind of sucks but there are certain disciplinary actions the government needs to follow for situations such as this for security.
  • Dang, maybe if it was at least a good game it would have been worth it. I hope EA paid them well. Doubt it though.

  • oh, jeeze. The military needs to take the sticks out of their collective asses. Oh wait. That's all the military is. Sticks up asses.
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