Photos surfacing of the disgruntled former LAPD officer who is accused of killing three people show Christopher Dorner wearing a U.S. Navy BDU field uniform and the grade of Lieutenant, which is a Navy O-3 and equivalent to a Marine Corps, Air Force, or Army Captain.
ABC News reports that Dorner, 33, was a Navy Reservist until Friday. They report he deployed to Bahrain and earned weapons qualifications as a rifle marskman and pistol expert.
In the suspect’s manifesto published online by KTLA 5 he writes, “I will utilize every tool within INT collections that I learned from NMITC in Dam Neck.”
NMITC is the acronym for the Navy and Marine Corps Intelligence Center located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. According to the NMITC website, “The mission of the Center for Information Dominance, is to deliver full spectrum Cyber Information Warfare, and Intelligence Training to achieve decision superiority.” It was founded in 1986 at Naval Air Station Oceana at the Dam Neck Annex about 5 miles south of Virginia Beach. NAS Oceana is a Naval jet base with F/A-18 Hornets and Super Hornets.
