Information Campaign

I've heard it said a million times--our soldiers are our best spokespeople. They have the trust of the American people, whereas some will be more skeptical of higher level official spokespeople. Shutting down the others only feeds the suspicion and this measure is complete crap. It demonstrates an innate lack of trust between the USAF and their people--effectively saying they can't trust their people.

All this does is clamp down on your best, most enthusiastic people, who would say good things about your organization and would reflect credit upon the US military. The dirtbags always have and always will express their disgruntled one-sided stories no matter what measures are in place because they have nothing to lose. That continues after discharge. There are plenty of chaptered/court martialed (kicked out) guys that run around telling their story all the time. Add to this a lot of bogus opportunists who can play the part (but were never part of the military) and you really have a problem with your civil-military relations.

The most precious asset the US military has is the sons and daughters of this country, and the people who loan them to us expect some oversight into that. We need to encourage people to write blogs, and leaders need to make sure they are educated on OPSEC to facilitate that. What's the USAF going to do next, ban letters and email? The information is out there, and they, the ones who arrogated themselves to "Cyber command", should know that.

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