Chris' Deployment Journal

My dad’s friend at the Goddard House asked about emails and censorship. During WWII, they used to cut soldier’s letters open and physically cut out censored information (where they are, where their unit is heading, etc.), sometimes leaving letters looking like doilies.

When I use my military email, the army can look at what I’m writing whenever they like. After all, it’s their system. I don’t think they have any power over guys using other email services, like Yahoo or Hotmail though, unless it’s read on an army computer. Plus you have guys that have blogs and websites and all. To be able to actually review all that information would probably require an entire office building of people so I assume that they just occasionally spot check guy’s emails, when they can.

Ironically then that my articles for the Idaho Statesman are reviewed by a Captain, Lt. Colonel, and occasionally a General, especially when I take such pains to just focus on the positive stuff. ‘Oh no, it’s the SCARY media, everyone freak out!’ Ah well.