Army Squeezes Soldier Blogs, Maybe to Death

Wired reports, "The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned."

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BERKELEY WOMAN'S IRAQ QUEST - Sleeping bag in tow, she hopes to embed with Army and blog

Jane Stillwater is a 64-year-old Berkeley woman who left for Kuwait on Wednesday, hoping to embed with the U.S. military there and in Iraq as a blogger.

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Passing Through but Leaving a Lasting Impression

I love this article, because it shows that what we see on the news is not always 100 percent a measure of a country's people.

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The Women's War

On the morning of Monday, Jan. 9, 2006, a 21-year-old Army specialist named Suzanne Swift went AWOL. Her unit, the 54th Military Police Company, out of Fort Lewis, Wash., was two days away from leaving for Iraq.

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Iraqi Women Silenced

Rapes, bombings, death sentences, and a discriminatory legal system; it is one of the unspoken facts of militarism that women often become the spoils of war. The Iraq war has been a disaster in many ways, but none so extreme as what it's done to Iraqi women.

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WHY We SERVE: The McCormicks

By Spc. Karly Cooper, 15th SB, Public Affairs This was an article that I saw today while canvassing the Army stories out there, and it just made me say, "Awwwwww."

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At remote Afghan base, U.S. Army mechanic composes piano sonata for fallen comrades

A lot of people think of soldiers as just infantry or truckdriver or mechanics, etc. This story shows that underneath the camouflage, soldiers will surprise you. We have a wide variety of skills and interests and hail from a vast array of backgrounds.

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Army invades MySpace

Interesting story about the Army taking up a stance on MySpace among what is now much the domain of music bands.

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A place where people still love Americans

Before I left for Iran from San Francisco last year, one longtime acquaintance attributed my decision to spend part of the Islamic holy month of Moharram in Iran to my "latest insanity." A former MP and now a professor of criminology at a college in Pennsylvania, he tells me, "Th …

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Army Rangers fulfill wish of severely ill child

Weakened by his lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis, 14-year-old Riley Woina dreams of being strong like the war heroes he watches in movies. The U.S. Army's 6th Ranger Training Battalion on Eglin Air Force Base recently helped him realize this unusual dream.

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Soldier's online wish comes true with local help through Soldiers Online Fund

Shortly before Christmas, U.S. Army Sgt. Barett McNabb of Salida expressed a wish for his platoon in Iraq.

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Love the Warrior, Hate the War

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Meanwhile: Blegging for blargon in the blogosphere - Editorials & Commentary - International Herald Tribune

Blogging 101 for the Uninformed

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