Troop Tube

[Richard]

Anybody seen/used this service? :confused:

After Banning YouTube, Military Launches TroopTube

The U.S. military, with help from Seattle startup Delve Networks, has launched a video-sharing Web site for troops, their families and supporters, a year and a half after restricting access to YouTube and other video sites.

TroopTube, as the new site is called, lets people register as members of one of the branches of the armed forces, family, civilian Defense Department employees or supporters. Members can upload personal videos from anywhere with an Internet connection, but a Pentagon employee screens each for taste, copyright violations and national security issues.

In May 2007, the Defense Department banned employees and soldiers from accessing sites including YouTube and MySpace, citing security and bandwidth issues. Delve Chief Executive Alex Castro called TroopTube a "retention tool" aimed at a generation of soldiers who bring laptops to the front lines.

http://www.trooptube.tv/

Richard's $.02 :munchin

[TOMAHAWK9521]

Great. Although I agree that Joes, in general, shouldn't be able to use the various blog sites or MySpace-type sites due to evidence of their overwhelming stupidity or flagrant disregard for OPSEC, this looks about as entertaining as the mind-numbing, I-need-to-put-a-Makita Drill-to-my-temple, "Squeakers" OPSEC commercials on AFN. Leave it to the DOD to suck the fun out of something by recreating it in a politically-correct format.

[JJ_BPK]

a Pentagon employee screens each for taste, copyright violations and national security issues.

Delve Chief Executive Alex Castro called TroopTube a "retention tool" aimed at a generation of soldiers who bring laptops to the front lines.



That's enough to turn me off.. Creating a bureaucracy to monitor juveniles and their stupid antics is not the direction this should go..

[Richard]

[COLOR="Yellow"]...a Pentagon employee screens each for taste, copyright violations and national security issues.

Oh...I can see it now...the edited video material sent by some girlfriend to her deployed soldier is repackaged by some DOD techno-perv into a "Pentagon Girls Gone Wild" DVD and we have another muckraking CNN report on the scandalous behavior of the DOD while Barry continues to slither around the MSM unscathed. :rolleyes:

Richard's $.02 :munchin