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I'm surprised it's even allowed frankly.

There is valid reason to control information coming out of a tactical area. Certainly plenty of precedent. Letters sent home from WWII went thru a censorship process where details such as location, unit movements and sundry things like shortages of supplies were blacked out.

Well, on one hand I can see the legitimate security concern, on the other hand, things that are not security concerns are already being obscured from the public for PR reasons.

That said, I'm working under contact for homeland security and it's not like anyone has posted notice that my coworkers and myself are being monitored.  We're explicitly told what we can't talk about. We know security protocol, and we even know how it might be compromised.  Nevertheless, I can't even begin to count the times I be told not to talk about that stuff.

Have these guys been debriefed properly and frequently?

There certainly is concern that compromising informations gets out - even with the best of intention, the soldiers couldn't be trained in recognizing everything that could be put to use. It's certainly easier for the military to just shut down all access.

However, it is good to get unvarnished reports from the front.

Catch-22 wrote:

All the officer patients in the ward were forced to censor letters written by all the enlisted-men patients, who were kept in residence in wards of their own. It was a monotonous job, and Yossarian was disappointed to learn that the lives of enlisted men were only slightly more interesting than the lives of officers. After the first day he had no curiosity at all. To break the monotony he invented games. Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective. The next day he made war on articles. He reached a much higher plane of creativity the following day when he blacked out everything in the letters but a, an and the. That erected more dynamic intralinear tensions, he felt, and in just about every case left a message far more universal. Soon he was proscribing parts of salutations and signatures and leaving the text untouched. One time he blacked out all but the salutation "Dear Mary" from a letter, and at the bottom he wrote, "I yearn for you tragically A. T. Tappman, Chaplain, U.S. Army." A. T. Tappman was the group chaplain's name.

Rozzlapeed wrote:

Catch-22 wrote:

All the officer patients in the ward were forced to censor letters written by all the enlisted-men patients, who were kept in residence in wards of their own. It was a monotonous job, and Yossarian was disappointed to learn that the lives of enlisted men were only slightly more interesting than the lives of officers. After the first day he had no curiosity at all. To break the monotony he invented games. Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective. The next day he made war on articles. He reached a much higher plane of creativity the following day when he blacked out everything in the letters but a, an and the. That erected more dynamic intralinear tensions, he felt, and in just about every case left a message far more universal. Soon he was proscribing parts of salutations and signatures and leaving the text untouched. One time he blacked out all but the salutation "Dear Mary" from a letter, and at the bottom he wrote, "I yearn for you tragically A. T. Tappman, Chaplain, U.S. Army." A. T. Tappman was the group chaplain's name.

God, that book was inspired.

Get the girlfriend first. It's easier, since you are going to volunteer infantry so you can be deployed. Did you know, there are women who actually do get turned on by uniforms, and those who have been in harms way?

They can be pretty freaky too.

Hmmmm, sounds very kinky!

Have you been a bad boy Rozzlapeed?

sturner wrote:

Hmmmm, sounds very kinky!

Have you been a bad boy Rozzlapeed?

Yes I have, and you would not believe how hard it is to get that kind of thing removed from your record.

All webmail is blocked by the Navy

Yeop.

Yes
Of course they should monitor and censor certin information, They should also get rid of the Reporters and TV people assigned to units for the same thing