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Archive for April, 2008

Blast-from-the-past blog tipping

Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This is apparently blog tipping week in the D-Ring; here is my second tip in two days. As an added bonus, it is yet another military public affairs blog! (Chris and Chris, he is a former Chair Forcer Air Force officer).
Anyone who has been to a military school knows that you make good friends who [...]

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Blogtipping: Fewl.net

Posted in Blogs, Milblogs, Navy, New Media on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Under the category of new-to-me-milblogs, check out fewl.net, a blog written by a sailor stationed in Japan.
One of my favorites is his redacted blog post, poking fun at blog censorship:

The rest is just as good. You won’t be disappointed.

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Breaking: This isn’t really a story

Posted in New York Times, News, Pentagon on April 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Apparently everyone is up in arms over the fact that Pentagon public affairs folks host regularly scheduled briefings for retired general officers (who happen to also be on-camera pundits for cable networks) about current military activities.
From Reuters:
Many U.S. military analysts used as commentators on Iraq by television networks have been groomed by the Pentagon, leaving [...]

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D-Ring news room

Posted in News on April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »

From Reuters:
About 300,000 U.S. troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, but about half receive no care, an independent study said on Thursday.
The study by the RAND Corp. also estimated that another 320,000 troops have sustained a possible traumatic brain injury during deployment. But researchers could not say [...]

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Friday fun video

Posted in Navy, YouTube on April 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Who says the Navy can’t have some fun?

h/t: ASY Live

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Intel Dump goes MSM

Posted in Uncategorized on April 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Big ups to Phillip Carter, whose awesome blog Intel Dump has been picked up by The Washington Post.
I think this is a brilliant move by the Post. Carter is a great writer, has incredible insight, and truly gets how to create content for an online audience. Not bad for someone who is a lawyer by [...]

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