Video Sharing from the War
Sites:
MySPace videos http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids
YouTube videos http://www.youtube.com
syBlip http://www.blip.tv
LiveLeak http://www.liveleak.com
Technology has changed a lot about wartime but personal technology like video cameras and laptop editing gear in the hands of soldiers is being used in some rather creative ways to show the folks back home what’s happening… the good, the bad and…the silly.
Go to any video sharing site these days and do a search for Iraq or Afghanistan and you’ll find a lot of material captured… without official permission… by soldiers. Some of it is dramatic. And some of it has shown some wrongdoing but a lot of it is… well… foolish and fun… of lip syncing and dancing.
The Navy tried to ban a video taken aboard the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan but… it’s everywhere… showing a bunch of female sailors in a very slickly produced put on of their macho male counterparts…. Dancing and singing all over the massive ship.
All over the Net are similar videos, from Iraq, where the image of heavily armed combat soldiers dancing in a war zone makes for silly fun.
Soldiers get bored and with not much do in their down time, video cameras clearly fill a void.