History channel has this show about soldiers blogging from the frontline - and every time the subject comes up, all I can think is WHAT THE BLOODY BLUE HELL HAPPENED TO OPSEC?!? You know, operational security? Their snail mail still ends up like swiss cheese, but you let them BLOG? I know we underestimate the enemy in the arabic world, but with the sheer volume of pirate sites in Iran/Iraq, worldwide availability of data services, letting soldiers blog unedited from the front is ****ING STUPID. Loose lips sink ships ring a bell? Sweet jesus have they stopped making these kids watch Private Snafu cartoons or something? I know we're getting soft on common sense shit that keeps soldiers alive, but this is getting ridiculous. 12 to 1 this shit is getting soldiers killed... and before anyone gets thier panties in a wad about the soldiers 'rights' - remember those go away when you sign on the dotted line. Lt. Jason M. Knight, USAF ret.
From your title I thought this was a review of a new photography book of the same name 'whiskey tango foxtrot'... Anyway, It is pretty stupid... I didn't see it but maybe the story was exaggerated. I doubt that they are sitting in trenches and what not on the actual front lines updating their blogs without some sort of screening. I am sure (well, I hope at least) that they are sitting at base during some of their nearly infinite downtime.