The official X account for the Army Counterintelligence Command provided a basic math equation for recruits and/or troops this Valentine's Day, designed to help them navigate the ever-perilous dating scene.
In short, if you're a dude coming in at a 5, and a woman you and your friends think is a 10 is flirting with you, you might want to take stock of the situation.
"It doesn't take a mathematician to figure out '10 + 5 = honeytrap,'" they wrote. "Report suspicious behavior."
The social media post featured an AI-generated smokeshow talking with an average Joe at a bar.
"Are you a spy?" a heart-shaped caption reads. "Because you're way too cute to be talking to me!"
It doesn't take a mathematician to figure out "10 + 5 = honeytrap." Report suspicious behavior.
— Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC) (@Real_ArmyCI) February 13, 2026
(Graphic made with AI) pic.twitter.com/zVGcfXi9zH
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Granted, it's a pretty funny post, but there is one thing to nitpick here. Why use an AI-generated image when you have a really famous real-world example of that math equation?
Granted, he wasn't an Army guy, but: 10 (Fang Fang) + 5 (a generous number for Eric Swalwell) = honeytrap. Allegedly. All kidding aside, the Army also has some recent history to draw on regarding "honeytrap" concerns.
Retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, David Slater, who later worked as a civilian for the Air Force and had top-secret clearance at Offutt Air Force Base, was sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison this past October, after pleading guilty to conspiring to transmit classified information about Russia's war in Ukraine.
Slater used a foreign online dating platform to transmit, according to his plea deal, secret information on military targets and Russian military capabilities to a woman claiming to be a woman living in Ukraine.
How did the guy not know some of these messages weren't coming from a real woman?
BREAKING: 63 year-old U.S. Air Force employee, fmr Lt Col, arrested for giving classified intel on Ukraine to woman he met on dating site who called him ‘Sweet Dave’ pic.twitter.com/p0YSnfSoqd
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) March 4, 2024
More recently, and perhaps more closely associated with the Army Counterintelligence Command post, retired U.S. Army Colonel Kevin Charles Luke was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to disclosing classified national defense information.
In this scenario, Luke texted a photo of secret military operation plans to a woman he met online in an attempt to impress her.
“Sent to my boss earlier, gives you a peek at what I do for a living," he wrote before following up with a photo of a computer display showing a classified email.
At least the email didn't have vital information in it — only "targets of a planned U.S. military operation as well as the future date of the operation, the means of executing the operation, and the goal of the operation."
Other than that, no big deal. (That's sarcasm.)
A retired United States Army colonel will serve two years in federal prison for sending classified war plans to a woman he met online, federal authorities said. https://t.co/qWRKw08riR
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 12, 2026
If we're being honest, the advice offered by the Army Counterintelligence Command is general life advice. I'm not saying a 10 and a 5 can't get together (my wife would be evidence of that), but you really should think it through if you're in the United States military.
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