Any good military blogs?

[Bragi]

I read an article about blogs by soldiers in Iraq which suggested some of them might be interesting. I've since tried to find some, but so far all I've been able to find are pro-war pumped-up testostorone sites.

So, does anyone here know of any good military bloggers who provide good information about what's going on in Iraq?

- B

[Bragi]

1. Kick.

[City Lights]

2. Have you seen Operation Truth?

http://www.optruth.org/

Not sure it's what you're looking for, but it's a start. :hi:

[Bragi]

4. Thanks for that...

I didn't know of that site, and it turns out the lead article today is on military blogs (or milblogs, as he terms them.)

See <http://www2.operationtruth.com/dia/organizations/OpTruth/blog/>

That should get me going.

- B

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Roscoerosco posts to DU from there, but I am not sure about actually

blogging

[rainbow4321]

5. Military cracking down on Iraq soldier blogs(has links to soldiers' blogs)

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05226/553226.stm


There were no reporters riding shotgun on the highway north of Baghdad when a roadside bomb sent Sgt. Elizabeth Le Bel's Humvee lurching into a concrete barrier. The Army released a three-sentence statement about the incident in which her driver, a fellow soldier, was killed. Most news stories that day noted it with just a few words.

But a vivid account of the attack appeared on the Internet within hours of the crash last Dec. 4. Unable to sleep after arriving at the hospital, Le Bel hobbled to a computer and typed 1,000 words of what she called "my little war story" into her Web log, or blog, titled Life in this Girl's Army, at www.sgtlizzie.blogspot.com.

At least 200 active-duty soldiers currently keep blogs. Only about a dozen blogs were in existence two years ago when the U.S. invaded Iraq, according to The Mudville Gazette, (www.mudvillegazette.com), a clearinghouse of information on military blogging administered by an Army veteran who goes by the screen name Greyhawk.

Enforcement of the policy was left to the discretion of unit commanders. In late July, Arizona National Guard Spc. Leonard Clark became the first soldier found to have violated the new policy. He was fined $1,640 and demoted to private first-class for posting what the military said was classified material on his blog. His site has since been shut down, although much of the content has been posted elsewhere on the Internet. He did not return e-mail messages seeking comment.

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This blog has a bunch of other milblogs listed on it:

http://docinthebox.blogspot.com/