April 2005 - Posts

• MilBlogging at BlogNashville

  RandomProbabilities reports: I’ll be leading a session on milblogging at the BlogNashville conference in May, representing both Winds of Change and this site. Among the milblogers who will be present are Bill Roggio of The Fourth Rail (and other Read More... Posted Saturday, April 30, 2005 7:33 PM by ssmith | 2 Comments

• Captain Promotion (and IRR info)

  Received a memo in the mail yesterday from HRC St. Louis informing me that on my 5-year time-in-grade anniversary (in a couple of weeks) as a 1LT, I will be promoted to CPT. The referenced AR is AR 135-155. It looks like my previous information that suggested Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:32 AM by ssmith | 12 Comments

• Imminent Site Update

  Very soon, perhaps even this weekend, ArmyAdvice.org will be upgrading to another server and software package, Community Server 1.0. If you're a user, this will mean changing some URLs you're used to (from armyadvice.org/name/ to armyadvice.org/blogs/name/). Read More... Posted Saturday, April 16, 2005 11:54 AM by ssmith | 6 Comments

• Special Book Offer for Iraqistan Troops

  Instapundit reports: A SPECIAL OFFER FOR THE TROOPS: The email I posted earlier from Major John Tammes, about John Scalzi's book Old Man's War, produced this from John Scalzi: Maj. Tammes' note about being "hyped up" to read Old Man's War inspired me Read More... Posted Thursday, April 14, 2005 9:04 PM by ssmith | 4 Comments

• Children in Iraq

  Lance Frizzell has a nice story about how the 278th from TN are helping local Iraqi children medically and educationally. Expanded as a news story on BillHobbs.com . Also linked is this story of how Iraqi children hold the key to a peaceful future , which Read More... Posted Saturday, April 02, 2005 1:08 AM by ssmith | 6 Comments