Facebook And The Marines At War

Covering Marines at War, Through Facebook -- New York Times

Basetrack is a Web-based reporting initiative with the photographers Teru Kuwayama, Balazs Gardi and Tivadar Domaniczky. Its “forward crew” is embedded with the First Battalion, Eighth Marines in Afghanistan. The rest of the team tracks regional news and relevant information, adding it to material transmitted from Afghanistan. Michael Kamber spoke with Mr. Kuwayama last month. Their conversation has been edited and condensed.

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My Comment: Since 9/11 and the wars that have followed, who would have thought that social networking would have the impact on our soldiers that it has had on our servicemen/women and their families. This is good interview on this impact from the New York Times "Lens" Section .... read it all.

The link to Basetrack is here.

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