Sunday, September 16, 2012  NOT the Longest EAM Ever  The
longest EAM ever, according to people who would know, is much
longer.  It is at least 515 characters.  This one was "only"
270.  While it is plausible that a fair number of US military
assets required new instructions regarding the security of US
diplomatic personnel overseas, any such connection would be
sheer speculation.  There is no evidence connecting these
special multi-block EAMs with anything extraordinary at all. 
We'll probably never know.  Friday, September 14, 2012  Longest
USAF EAM Ever?  EAM stands for Emergency Action Message.  They
aren't really only for dire national emergencies like nuclear
war or terrorism, though they are definitely another way the
command structure of the US military would get essential orders
out in either of these.  It used to be thought in the more
conspiratorially minded parts of the Internet that very long
ones would mean a lot of orders going out at once, and indicate
that something very large is up.  This ha