About a month ago I decided I should start reading other military blogs again. I do this every year or so in order to see what’s going on in Milblog World and to see if I’m missing any great writing or stories. But so far, once again, I’ve been disappointed. The blogs I find all [...]
I read this article a couple months ago while I was slowly working up the motivation to revive my blog: “What’s next for milbloggers?” “Last month at the annual MilBlog Conference in Washington D.C. several of the attendees wondered if blogging about the military in general was dying, and maybe the May conference was the [...]
Hey everybody! It’s Milbloggies voting time! I finally made it past the nomination stage so if you can spare a few seconds, please go over and vote for me! Now I’m off to eat Easter food at Grandma’s house. :)
Fourth Annual MILbloggies Officially Kicked Off – Nomination Phase: The 2010 Fourth Annual MILbloggies has officially kicked off today, and runs through April 7, 2010 until 11:59 PM EST. The MILbloggies are currently in the nomination phase, which will last until Saturday, April 3 11:59 PM. The top 5 nominees in each eligible category then [...]
US Army General challenges the military to embrace new media at Milblogging Conference: “We need to change the organisational culture of our military. A culture that emphasises control of all pertinent events within our battlespace. And yet the stark realisation is that we cannot control all aspects of this new media…” Click the link to [...]
Even when the web does expose problematic information about military operations, however, soldier blogs are not usually the source. According to the Army’s audit, information breaches by blogs were dwarfed by breaches from the Defense Department’s official sites. There were 1,813 breaches on the department’s nearly 900 sites in 2006; the roughly 600 soldier blogs [...]
I made it through the nominations! The top five made it through to the voting stage, so now you all have to go vote for me. I really don’t expect to win this part but it was still cool to make it to the voting stage!
Wow. You peoples went crazy! Now I have 12 Milbloggies nominations! I think that’s a record. Last year, what did I get, one?! The blog “One Marine’s View” has 54 votes though, which is more than the rest of us combined!
Current Nominations Cool! I’m tied for third place! But with only three measly votes. Haha. 1st has 22 and 2nd has 9. I can only nominate myself once so the rest of you slackers better get to work. ;-)
Third Annual Milbloggies Begins! Place Your Nominations! The nominations period ends on September 10. (Hint, vote for me!)
Another day, another challenge for WEC champ Stann: If you’re going to ask Brian Stann about how tough it is to be a mixed martial artist in one of the world’s top fighting promotions, World Extreme Cagefighting, you should first consider asking him how difficult times were when he was trudging through the 100-plus-degree heat [...]
Senior Army leaders have fallen behind the breakneck development of cheap digital communications including cell phones, digital cameras and Web 2.0 Internet sites such as blogs and Facebook, Army Secretary Pete Geren said at a trade conference on July 10. That helps explain how “just one man in a cave that’s hooked up to the [...]
The SandGram post was called “Good plug for Military Bloggers” but it started out with a group of stories about getting their military-reg haircuts, like this one: Although my brothers in Iraq can attest to the “Hadji man massage and bean snap” which scared the crap out of me. See, when you finish up there, [...]
While all the military services are concerned about operational security and compromising the mission, each branch has its own rules for servicemembers who want to sound off in the blogosphere. Army An April 2007 operational security policy mandated that soldier blogs get “eyes on” by a blogger’s immediate supervisor and OPSEC officer before publication. The [...]
An outspoken soldier who wrote one of the most brutally honest blogs ever to come out of Iraq has been forced to shut down his site, after criticizing his superior officers one time too often. …In Iraq since December, 2007, the pseudonymous “LT [Lieutenant] G,” described firefights and combat patrols and tribal meetings and the [...]
I am a female Marine currently in the Individual Ready Reserve. I like to sleep, travel, read, eat, explore, and take photographs. I read lots of news and I like reading about life in other countries. I am easily amused and my dream job is to be snoozing in a warm patch of sunlight, hopefully with a piece of tasty cheese nearby for when I wake up hungry.
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