U.S. military 'shuts down' soldiers' blogs

After all, digital photos of blown-up tanks and gritty comments on urban warfare don’t just interest mom and dad.”

Newsday

And now, as hundreds of soldiers overseas have started keeping Internet journals about the heat, the homesickness, the bloodshed, word speeds from the battlefront faster than ever.

More and more, though, U.S. military commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan are clamping down on these military Web logs, known as milblogs.

After all, digital photos of blown-up tanks and gritty comments on urban warfare don't just interest mom and dad.

The enemy, too, has a laptop and satellite link.

Nowadays, milbloggers "get shut down almost as fast as they're set up," said New York Army National Guard Spc. Jason Christopher Hartley, 31, of upstate New Paltz, who believes something is lost as the grunt's-eye take on Tikrit or Kabul is silenced or sanitized.

"The ones that stay up are completely patriotic and innocuous, and they're fine if you want to read the flag-waving and how everything's peachy keen in Iraq," said Hartley, who is back in New Paltz after two years stationed in Iraq.

Well, what did those Soldiers Think!

That they have Joined the Peace Core?

That they can just Post anything in their Blogs?

I mean, come on - it's the ARMY, and in the Army you do what you're told, and you do NOT, I repeat do NOT, post any of the Liberal-Communist Anti-War Pro-Terrorists Drivel!

Those Blogs WILL “...get shut down almost as fast as they’re set up.” !