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News Story: "WWII soldiers reflect on experiences"
(StandardNET) It may be that Bill Allen, 81, was the youngest World War II vet in Saturday's Veterans Day parade, because he was almost certainly the youngest of every-one there when he enlisted in 1942 at the ripe old age of 14.How did he do i...
Shoes: Military Blogger and Readers of The Huntsville Times Make a Difference in Afghanistan and So Do Many Others
I stumbled across this story that was published on The Huntsville Times about the difference Maj. Ken Arnold and the people of Hunstville, Alabama made in Afghanistan, simply by donating shoes. Maj. Arnold wrote a blog called “A Soldierâ...
News: "What Military Blogs Say About Fort Hood Shootings"
(The Atlantic Wire) Everyone is pontificating on Thursday's horrific shooting at Fort Hood by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old military psychiatrist who was facing his deployment to Afghanistan. Much discussion focuses on the troubles of ...
News: \'Leicester soldier\'s letters from First World War available online\'
(Leicester Mercury) They tell of the harsh life in the trenches, coping with tough conditions while under fire and thoughts for family back home.Now letters, diary entries and postcards revealing a Leicester soldier's experiences in the First W...
Harding Distinguished Lecture Features Milblogger Colby Buzzell
(The Collegian) Echoes of contemporary war tales and first-hand accounts of experiences in Iraq filled the air in the Performing Arts Center on Oct. 27, as the Harding Distinguished Lecture Series and the South Dakota Humanites Council featured...
In the News: "British troops are told: Don’t Tweet war secrets"
The Daily Mail has a story online about the Online Engagement Guidelines published by the Ministry of Defense, although the MoD published the guidelines way back in early August so the Daily Mail is a little behind. British troops have been given new...
Military Blogger Michael Yon in the News: Claims The New York Times lied about not paying ransom for Reporter David Rohde
(Raw Story) The New York Times lied when it said it had not paid a ransom for the release of report David Rohde, a freelance war correspondent is alleging.In a series of Twitter statements, blogger Michael Yon asserted that the Times "paid mill...
In the News: Teenage Gallipoli veteran Hubert Anthony, kept a diary of his horrendous experiences
(The Australian) Here he writes home from London after being evacuated seriously illNo3 General Hospital Wandsworth London SW August 30, 1915 Dearest Mother You will be getting anxious about me I am sure and you will also be surprised no doubt ...
More Social Media by the Military: Army to launch technology blog
The military continues to launch new blogs and connect on more social media sites. From the Army.mil website:The Army is launching a new blog to help Soldiers and the public discover a little-known side of the Army: the research, developm...
World War I Diary Discovered: Describes British Soldier\'s experiences on the front line between 1915 and 1917
(The Daily Mail) With shells screaming overhead and German snipers only 75 yards away, just staying alive was a remarkable achievement. Yet huddled in the mud-filled trenches, Sapper John T French found the time to compile a remarkable diary. I...
In the News: Army sees benefits in social-media presence
(Government Computer News) Social-networking tools are playing an increasingly important part of the U.S. Army’s strategy for communicating with the public, despite the inherent security risks, according to Lt. Col. Kevin Arata, dir...
In the News: Berkeley blogger Whose Goal in Life was "To Send George Bush to Jail" settles lawsuit against Department of Defense
Inside Bay Area has an update on the Berkley blogger, Jane Stillwater, who filed a lawsuit against the DoD after her embed with the U.S. Army was cancelled.Berkeley blogger Jane Stillwater has settled a lawsuit against the federal government fo...
In the News: Army Major Brian Nomi Who Returned Home Recently, Gave Personal Look at Army Life in Iraq with a Military Blog
(Camarillo Acorn) The Web log features photographs, videos and posts from a country many Americans still know very little about. The blog has attracted loyal followers—many of them soldiers who are headed to the base and grateful f...
In the News: "Turning Swords to Pens, and Warriors to Writers"
(NYTimes) In a bare-walled room at the main library here, Kris Rodriguez, a military veteran, was struggling to explain his confusion as a new writer.A first step, Jenny Lumet suggested, might be to choose a format. Writing a novel might be dif...
This just in: Military Blogfather Colby Buzzell Making Appearance
Nice, almost 5 years later after writing a blog and a book, the "Military Blogfather" Colby Buzzell is still making the news.Buzzell will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, at the Performing Arts Center on campus. Copies of his book will be avai...
3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team embraced the world of social media by jumping on the YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and blog bandwagons
(Ledger-Enquirer) Last winter, the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team embraced the world of social media by jumping on the YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and blog bandwagons.Since the unit launched its Web sites in February and March, interest has...
Making the Big Time: Twitter Hashtag #MilitaryMon Hits the News!
In a story about the launch of a website that focuses on veterans, The Spectrum mentioned the popular Twitter hashtag #MilitaryMon:The Web site is sponsored by Ted and Vivian Spilsbury, of Spilsbury Mortuary, and features six local veterans eac...
In the News: Oregonian writer heads to Iraq to cover Oregon Army National Guard's 41st Brigade, plans to blog and tweet
A writer for The Oregonian Editors will be writing about the Oregon Army National Guardâs 41st Brigade over a period of four to five weeks while he's in Iraq with the Unit. The paper reports:Oregonian writer Mike Francis left Oregon ...
U.S. Air Force: Rare find focuses on Scottish-American history, Red Cross/USO Club Sign-in Roster dating back to 1943
A Red Cross/USO servicemembers' club sign-in roster has been discovered dating back to 1943. The U.S. Air Force reports:Dr. Nina Baker, a Glasgow city councillor for Ward 10, was indexing the old books in the city chambers' library when s...
In the News: While the Military Wrestles with Web 2.0, the State Department Pins down one of their own bloggers...
Nathan Hodge over at the The Danger Room reports:For several years, the military has been wrestling with the rules of Web 2.0. And while its efforts to regulate online behavior have at times been ham-fisted, the Pentagon has made at least a gen...
Milblogger in the News: Army of Dude, a blog from an Iraq War vet
(Gather) When Alex Horton joined the Army, he was a shaggy-haired kid from Frisco, Texas, who read military histories and who had failed English twice. To avoid the endless e-mails to mom, dad, grandma and the cousins, he started a blog, ...
In the News: 'Social Media: The military to go where the Washington Post fears to tread'
(The Inquisitr) It is interesting that during all the hoopla surrounding the memo the brass of the Washington post sent to their troops about the use of Twitter and other social media services the US military has a draft memo circulating that w...
What the Media is saying about the Pentagon's Policy on Social Networking, Price Floyd Says a Few More Weeks Before it's Released
There are several media stories online today discussing the âdraftâ policy on Social Networking by the Department of Defense. NextGov apparently got their hands on the draft memo...The Defense Department, which had seen some ser...
Wired.com News: 'Draft Policy Would OK Troops' Tweets'
From the Danger Room:The Defense Department may allow troops and military employees to freely access social networks â if a draft policy circulating around the Pentagon gets approved, that is.Read the entire story here....
News Story: "Father reported news from Fontana to his soldier son during WWII"
(Fontana Herald News) The then-contemporary news of Fontana during World War II years of 1943 to 1945 was dutifully reported to Cpl. Charles R. Eddy by his devoted father, Milton Eddy, owner of the Rexall Pharmacy on the corner of Sierra and Ar...
Military\'s new social networking guru, Price Floyd: Pentagon policy on social media doesn\'t exist, but it will within 2 weeks
Yesterday on NPR, Price Floyd, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs discussed “the questions of security, resources and censorship when it comes to social media and the militaryâ€. Also involv...
Eye-Opening: Life-long Civilian Immerses Herself at Fort Leonard Wood, Writes Blog About the Experience
Tessa Long is a graduate student in Technical Communication at Missouri University of Science & Technology. She's also been a civilian her whole life, but now she’s cracking the mystery of the military. According to her b...
Pentagon Channel: Top Ten List of Stupid Things Done in Social Media
The Pentagon Channel’s "For the New Guy" broadcasts military news to members of the U.S. Armed Forces. I just found it this weekend. In their latest Episode, the hosts put together their own top ten list of stupid things peop...
Is the ban of Twitter on the Marine Corps\' unclassified networks a step in the wrong direction? Federal Computer Week thinks so...
(Federal Computer Week) Cybersecurity concerns should not be underestimated, but just asking the troops to get off Twitter and Facebook isn’t enough. A better alternative is to educate our military personnel about social media and discus...
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen\'s Wife is Now on Twitter just like him - Tweeting about Military Spouses, Families
I wrote back in July about Adm. Mike Mullen being an active twitter user and he’s still at it. Even his wife is on Twitter now, tweeting about military spouses and families. From U.S. News & World Report:As the chairman o...
