Ever heard of a milblog (a military Blog)? —Soldiers in combat zones writing about their experiences, thoughts, and feelings of military life, but never about their unit locations or the timing of military activities.

Army Public Affairs Spc. Lindy Kyze, says soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are encouraged to Blog about military life…it helps soldiers process traumatic combat experiences that can be hard for them to talk about.

Here’s an example of the Blogs you can find out there:

“A Blog where a company commander rants, raves, explains, and comments on the things he sees, and the way he sees them.”

“Undeterred by empty threats by his supervisors, Stryker and his Merry Marauders continually provide smart-assed commentary, memoirs and uninformed takes on the day’s events. So there.”

“A Southern boy finds his way home from Afghanistan.”

“An accounting of my time in Iraq; how I got there, what I did, and coming home.”

And then there’s TroopTube.tv—a way for military personnel to share videos with friends and family. However, I get the idea many soldiers believe this site is too heavily monitored (censored) and have dubbed it PropagandaTube.

Melanie Hack
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