By JESSICA ESTEPA • jestepa@rgj.com • July 23, 2008 Military blogs, or “milblogs,” number in the thousands, serving as the voices of soldiers and their families and friends. An Army policy updated last year worried some milbloggers about the future of posting. The policy requires Army personnel to “consult with their immediate supervisor and their OPSEC [operations security] Officer for an OPSEC review prior to publishing or posting information in a public forum.” After closure of the popular milblog “Kaboom: A Soldier’s War Journal” last month, milbloggers remain in disagreement about what effects the policy has had on soldiers posting to the Internet. Jean-Paul Borda, Web master and founder of the site millblogging.com, said he hasn’t noticed a decline in blogging since the policy was put in place. “A lot of people said...
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