Re:Damn straight! (Score 1)

The majority of our soldiers are not in a war zone. The previous regs required something that might be sensative to be cleared through your superior officers. Now it is all things. Be it a post on your blog about how your dog has been sick recently, an email to a friend voicing a personal political opinion, or posting on a World of Warcraft forum asking for help with a difficult quest. All of these must now be cleared to remain in adherence with the regs. Additional, I suppose this also alters an existing policy from it's currently standard to "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Anyone." As if it's not bad enough that a homosexual soldier has to hide their identity for while they are 'on-duty', but now they have to hide it from the internet as well. Keep in mind, as I already said, the rules were already previously that potentially sensative information must be screened to make sure it don't leak anything important. This is instead a change of policy to that regardless where you are stationed, regardless of your duties, any message over the internet is considered by default to potentially contain sensative information. The Army keeps making policies like these and then wonder why they are having recruitment and retention problems (beyond the war in Iraq with it's over-extended tours of duty).