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Here’s the info for the radio interview:
Time:
What station: WHYY-FM (91FM) in the
Website: whyy.org; The show will be streamed online so visit the website to listen.
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Check out Nelly’s banner:
Also, her blog made the news here in the “What’s Being Said in Blogs section”. Congrats Nelly (ahem, I mean DJ Nelly). That’s right. In addition to being a Princess, she’s also a DJ for Hooah Radio, a free internet-based radio station Saluting our Soldiers and Supporting their Families. Check it out here!
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By Chen Dapeng
I guess China Military Online having a blog that discusses military affairs is great news and everything, but a military blog that only reflects the views of the Communist Party doesn't really seem like a free-thinking blog. It’s almost as exciting as CNN announcing the launch of a military blog that discusses military affairs. Oh yes, that would be very exciting. Almost as exciting as the time I had to go to the bathroom and use sandpaper. Or the time I got kicked in the kidneys. Or the time I stabbed myself in the face...Well, you get the idea.
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Here's a preview of a couple that were recently added:
By the way, if you write any type of milblog and you have a horizontal 728x90 banner (like the ones displayed up top); send it to me. I'll add it to the top of milblogging.com along with the rest of the rotating milblog banners, cause I'm such a nice guy. Need proof? I once stopped traffic on a major highway just so I could rescue a wandering box turtle. Actually, it turned out to be an iPod. But that's not what I told the police. Hey, I spent like $300 on it...
Update 11:44 AM CST (two more banners just submitted)
Send banners to milblogging@gmail.com.
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(BBC News) The Pentagon is keeping a close eye on what its troops post online, with special attention being paid to videos that show the aftermath of combat.
There is no specific policy that bans troops from posting graphic material.
But troops who have served in
Sites such as YouTube and Ogrish.com have hundreds or thousands of clips from soldiers, some set to rock music...
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Make sure to read through the list of new milblogs. We got
Redleg02D , Aaron Sanderson, Afghanistan, This is just a blog that I started to communicate ... , 30 Jul 2006
Headquarters and Service Company , Jeb duke, Iraq, This site is dedicated to the Marines who serve in... ,
Weapons Company, 1/1 , Capt. A. A. Warthen,
Bravo Company , Bravo Company,
ALPHA COMPANY , ALPHA COMPANY,
CHARLIE COMPANY , James Letchford, Iraq, THIS SITE IS DEDICATED TO THE MEN OF CHARLIE COMPA... , 27 Jul 2006
Skycop150's blog , Robert E. Hanley Jr., United States, Discussions of religion, politics, military, and g... , 27 Jul 2006
Gunner's Blog - US Armed Forces News Service , Charles Mitchell, United States, Supporting our troops and their families. In the ... , 26 Jul 2006
OPFOR , John & Charlie, United States, Top Notch Military Blogging From Top Notch Militar... , 26 Jul 2006
Eighty-Four Glyde , Joshua, Iraq, I'm a soldier, I'm in Iraq. But guess what? That's... ,
Americas Majority , Richard
Live from an Israeli Bunker , Unknown name,
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It’s hard to believe it’s been over a week since I did my last featured Milblogger of the Week. But hey, that’s what happens when you have a busy busy personal life. I just spent the last several days flying around the country. Only this time, instead of jumping out of a plane in a tuxedo, landing in a life raft, and fighting sharks, I was really at a friend's wedding. Seriously. That's the truth. I spent like 45 minutes trying to think of a different excuse or some other exciting story about me, but in the end I thought it was important to tell the truth...Because, that's what Chuck Norris always tells me. "If at first you don't succeed, you're not Chuck Norris"...oh, and uh, "Try to tell the truth".
The current featured milblogger over on militaryblog.com is 1SG Troy Steward who writes Bouhammer’s AfghanBlog (aka Afghanistan Blog). As the title of the blog suggests, it’s written from
Anyway, I got a chance to ask 1SG Steward some questions by email. Here’s what he had to say:
“The reason I started was because I already had a blog on my website for other matters. I travel all the time, so I have one for tidbits on traveling experiences. I had one on military issues in general and I had a family one that was used to just communicate stories about my family to friends and family. My wife and I both have large families and lots of friends from my military career. Rather than send form letters at xmas we found it easier to keep up a blog and let them come read it. When I knew I was going to deploy, I wanted to maintain one in order to communicate back to a lot of people about the tour from trainup through re-deployment. Rather than sending tons of emails saying the same thing to a lot of people, I figured it would be easier to let people come read when they want. Thanks to previous experiences as a journalist I have some writing creativity and try to make the stories interesting, but still get the main message across. I know a lot of people (both that I know and don't know) want to know what is really happening in this forgotten war. What little media coverage there is for here does not portray the true message, so I am hoping my blog can give an honest, yet OPSEC-compliant, view of what life is really like here and what good things we are doing here.
I have never been one to keep a diary, and wish I had kept some type of journal when I was in the first Gulf War of my experiences there. So this also gives me a output to vent about issues, document the daily life and chronicle important events so I can share with my children and grandchildren later in life.”
Man, what a great guy. Don't forget to check out his milblog.
Bouhammer’s AfghanBlog is also this week's featured milblogger on Military.com. Don't forget to send in your nominations for upcoming Milbloggers of the Week.
(and seriously, no more talk of Chuck Norris for at least a week...)
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(Telegraph) ...
I discovered the "milbloggers": the American "keyboard warriors" who ran websites that blogged about the war. The milblogs made terrific use of the medium, posting real-time news from soldiers about killing insurgents or repainting schools. A milblog called Sgt Stryker became my absolute favourite: I liked its bias, which was open, easy to off-set and absolutely on-side with the American troops. Or even (sometimes) British troops, when they did anything "gutsy"...
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I’m actually a superhero. See? You can take comfort in knowing that the only thing more important to me than chatting with readers, is roundhouse-kicking bad guys to the face and occasionally leaping over a tall building...
By John Noonan of Op-For
(NRO) It seems that every American conflict has been accompanied by paranoia about a military-service gap — the age-old contention that poor men are forced to fight rich men’s wars. Traditionally, the service gap has been a myth, a falsehood designed to stroke society’s bitter underbelly for some sort of political gain. While a service gap between the rich and the poor may have actually existed during the French Revolution or the final days of the Russian czars, it has never been a prominent feature of American history.
Yet as the top tier of American academia grows increasingly hostile toward the military and military service, the service gap may go from fiction to fact. As the antiwar movement has grown, so have so-called “counter-recruitment” campaigns, designed to strip the military of the legal right to recruit on campuses.
There is hypocrisy here, as the same activist element that specializes in counter-recruitment also spends a great deal of time bemoaning the supposed service gap. On the one hand, these activists want to blame the wealthy for exploiting the poor to serve as cannon fodder in today’s wars. On the other hand, they seek to ensure that as many affluent young people are kept out of the military as possible.
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Now, [Milblogging.com founder J.P.] Borda finds himself at the center of a growing blogging movement. Military bloggers, or "milbloggers" as they call themselves, contend that they are uniquely qualified to comment on events in armed conflicts. Many milbloggers also argue that the mainstream media tends to overplay negative stories and play down positive military developments. For many of these blogs, says Mr. Borda, "the sole purpose is to counteract the media." [...]
The backlash takes many forms. Some bloggers point out what they see as inaccuracies and post lengthy critiques of current reporting. Others post their own stories. Some simply sling arrows. [...]
What's the future of military blogs? Mr. Borda would like to see milbloggers get their own TV shows or have their entries printed in major newspapers. The goal, he says, is to "continually be blurring that line between the media and blogging."
Blackfive and Michael Yon are name-checked. Yon is also mentioned by Jay Rosen in this post about another effort to blur the line. More precisely, it's an experiment in producing great online journalism without "the media." Yon and other milbloggers have done it, but Jay asks: How can we finance more of it? Beyond the blogger's tip jar, that is.
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(The Wall Street Journal Online, Mike Spector) J.P. Borda started a Web log during his 2004 National Guard deployment in
"You hear so much about what's going wrong," he says. "It gets hard to hear after a while when there's so much good going on."
Mr. Borda, a specialist, read other soldiers' blogs and found he wasn't alone. Hundreds of other troops and veterans were blogging world-wide, and many focused on a common enemy: journalists.
The 31-year-old software analyst, who now lives in
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Other notable bloggers mentioned in the story:
Blackfive
Michael Yon: Online Magazine
A Soldier’s Perspective
365 and a Wakeup
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(RedState) “Hezbollah, like any other Islamic group, joins the political democratic process and once they get what they want, they are the first to open fire on democracy."
I came across THIS Blog the other day, through the MILBlogging website, and have been absolutely fascinated by it. I cannot speak for the accuracy of it, nor can I assure anyone of it's legitimacy, but I can tell you that its contents are quite compelling and draw me to write today about their
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And then you can be a winner, like me...
You can send banners to milblogging@gmail.com.
The newest banner added this weekend was the milblog LCpl Dristy, USMC. I like it. I like it alot. If it were mine though, I have to say, I'd probably include a picture of me benchpressing a car or fighting ninjas. I mean, what's the point of making a banner if it doesn't show the real me....
Sorry, I have to make this quick. I need to go roundhouse-kick some bad guys in the face.
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Here’s an excerpt from the kickass Mission Statement:
“The Noble Duty Milblogger Coalition, also known as A Soldier’s Perspective, is a collective group of Military Bloggers dedicated to expounding on the military lifestyle. The Coalition discusses issues in the media and political life that directly affect veterans, active duty, reserve and National Guard service members. The Coalition also attempts to reveal life during our respective deployments to the extent allowed by OPSEC and military regulations. Readers will be given an inside look into how freedom is fought for and won. The Coalition is guided by the goal of security conscious, real life issues and successes as we strive to serve the citizens of the
I’m not going to post the entire Mission Statement here on Milblogging.com. But pretty much the statement goes on to say how CJ idolizes me, and how I inspire him in everything he does, and how he’s devoted to a world of JP.
Hi CJ.
Anyway, read the evolution of ASP into a group milblog and the living Mission Statement here.
Thanks to myself for the tip.
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This book has not yet been released, but you can order it now and it’ll get shipped to you when it arrives via Amazon. This book is bound to sell out so make sure to reserve a copy. Unfortunately, I didn't have the chance to contribute to the book, although Matt of Blackfive did his best to get me in, but I can assure you this will be a Best Seller with the amount of talent involved in the book. This is pretty much my dream book. I don’t normally read books because I have the attention span of a humming bird (not the metabolism), but I’ll be reading this one.
Here’s a description of the book:
Matthew Currier Burden founded www.blackfive.net, one of the most popular military blogs on the Internet. His blog began as an homage to a friend killed on duty in
In The Blog of War Burden presents selections from some of the best of the military blogs, the purest account of the many voices of this war. This is the first real-time history of a war, a history written even as the war continues. It offers a glimpse into the full range of military experiences in
The Blog of War provides an uncensored, intimate, and authentic version of life in the war zone. Dozens of voices come together in a wartime choir that conveys better than any second-hand account possibly can what it is like to serve on the front lines.
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Thanks to Big Nelly Style for the tip.
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(Seraphic Secret) I'm publishing the analysis below, because I've come, pretty much, to the same conclusion. This used to be called "softening up" the enemy, it's now called "prepping the battlespace." This comes from a fine military blog called: Op For. Highly recommended.
I want to thank Seraphic Friend ShrinkWrapped for bringing Op For to my attention.
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"A live blog from an Israeli bunker via laptop and wifi. Provides a unique and unprecedented insight into the rapidly escalating situation in the middle east. Experience the events thru the eyes of the people who live them, and perhaps get an idea of how it's really like over here. This is much more human and accurate then the major news channels."
I particularly appreciate the line, "This is much more human and accurate then the major news channels" That's what makes a great milblog as compared to the MSM. And the fact we don't wear makeup. At least the male milbloggers...uh, I hope.
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