Bound to happen eventually. LT G, and the Kaboom war blog have been ordered shut down by higher powers.
He didn’t violate OPSEC. He didn’t bad mouth the war effort. He didn’t route one post through the chain of command. Turns out, it was a post about why he turned down a gig as XO. UPDATE: Linked to the interweb Cache of the original post
What’s surprising is not so much that it was shut down, but how much LT G was allowed to say on his blog. We’ll certainly miss his writings. Hopefully someone else on the ground will pick up the torch and keep us informed of the situation in the sandbox.
Either way, LT G achieved his purpose…
Thank you for caring. Agree or disagree with the war, if you’re reading this, you are engaged and aware. As long as that is still occurring in a free society, there is something worth the fighting for.
NEW HAMPSHIRE christened today. CNN Reports that maybe that modular construction thing is finally starting to pay some dividends.
The Navy’s newest attack submarine, the New Hampshire, was christened Saturday, delivered eight months ahead of schedule and $54 million under budget.
Nice! I’ll take two.
Welcome to the fleet, Virginia Class #5, the USS NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Navy’s newest Virginia-class attack submarine, the New Hampshire, is scheduled to be christened Saturday at its shipyard in Groton, Conn., the Navy announced.
Adm. Kirkland Donald, the director of naval reactors, will deliver the ceremony’s main address. The ship’s sponsor is Cheryl McGuinness of Portsmouth, N.H., whose husband, Thomas, was the co-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11. The plane was hijacked and crashed into the World Trade Center in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. McGuinness will break the traditional bottle of champagne across the New Hampshire’s bow.
Apparently, ADM Stavridis (along with LTG Caldwell here at CGSC) is on the blogging bandwagon.
The process of reading and writing is important, he said, because the nation faces an “innovative” enemy like the Sept. 11, 2001, attackers and South American smugglers who transport drugs at sea in semisubmersible vessels.
“The most important reason is that the people who want to do harm to this country are doing so,” he said. “They are thinkers.”
Either through published works or through weblogs, the goal is an exchange of ideas, knowledge and information — such as on the participator-driven Wikipedia, he said.
“No one of us is as smart as all of us together,” he said. “The speed of ideas you can get in the blogs is remarkable.”
I have to admit, although a little late to the game, at least the DoD is getting on board with the so-called “new media.” Hopefully, the ingenuity of the average American will help us to catch up so we can stop losing the IO campaign between the US Military and Al Qaeda.
