Army rules on blogs, e-mail not being enforced

[sabra]

Source: ArmyTimes/AP

DENVER — “Eighty Deuce On the Loose,” a blog run by an Arizona soldier based in Iraq, has gone silent.

Well, sort of. Like everything else, there is a right way, a wrong way and the Army way.

Cpl. Edward Watson got a chewing out from his platoon leader for some of the things the 82nd Airborne paratrooper from Phoenix had said in his blog.

“He initially yelled at me for what he said were operational security violations and pointed them out to me. The tone of the conversation calmed down, and we discussed stuff for awhile,” Watson said in an e-mail. He said the sergeant gave him advice on what to say and not to say and that he could continue to blog — but it would be checked regularly.

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Watson, 25, has been in Iraq for five months. He said he decided himself that rather than posting “scrubbed” messages, he would wait until he got home so he could say what he really wanted to say and in the style he wanted to say it.

Read more: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/06/ap_militaryblogs_070602/

[noel adamson]

1. Military has always had less freedom than anyone in America..

...outside of the prison population. Less than incarcerated felons in some respects as the UCMJ, The Uniform Code Of Military Justice or the law under which the military operates, is outside of the Constitution. That, as we all know, is what has made it attractive to the anti-democratic Bush administration as evidenced by Guantanamo etc. Too bad we can't apply it to the commander in Chief of the armed forces. I got a visit from Secret Service agents when I advocated this on a website I put up a few years ago. It is still there several years later. ( http://www.treasoninc.com/CaseAgainstBushAndCo.html )

[liberal N proud]

2. Advice?

So they call orders advice now days.

[maggiegault]

3. IF, and that's a big IF, he makes it home to tell his story.

We need to start volunteering our blogs to these soldiers. Have them send home their stories via email to us, and we post them for them, on civilian blogs.

[BikeWriter]

4. That page has gone AWOL!

[sabra]

6. try this:

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/06/ap_militaryblogs_070602/

[BikeWriter]

5. Here's the blog in question:

http://airborneparainf82.blogspot.com/

[guruoo]

7. Here are some of those 'scrubbed' pages....

from Watson's blog:

http://www.google.com/search?q=+site:airborneparainf82.blogspot.com+airborneparainf82.blogspot.com/&hl=en&filter=0

Click on 'cache' to see them.