“No one of us is as smart as all of us together,” he said. “The speed of ideas you can get in the blogs is remarkable.”
SouthCom chief encourages military bloggers
By Andrew Scutro - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Jun 17, 2008 17:10:47 EDT
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The four-star chief of U.S. Southern Command urged service members to become published writers and bloggers at a three-day conference of the U.S. Naval Institute beginning here Tuesday.
Adm. James Stavridis, author of several guides and books on the Navy, said it’s important for members of the military, contractors and retirees to “read, think, write and publish.”
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Now this is a very smart man. Look how far we've gotten on getting the stigma out of many minds when it comes to PTSD. Blogs have done this. The sharing of the lives touched, changed and ended because of PTSD have done that. This is a huge step in making us more aware of what the troops are going through and maybe, just maybe the next time there is talk of sending them to war, the American people will be a lot more involved with them instead of American Idol.
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