.Michael Yon's Afghanistan embed at risk
"Michael Yon certainly has a knack for the dramatics particularly when it comes to his embed relationship with the military.
Operational security violations have come into question in the past, and now it seems a post titled Battlefield Forensics written in August 2011 and published on Michael Yon’s blog is the source of contention between Yon and a “certain” General who has instructed Yon to un-publish the post.
Yon received the message yesterday September 4 and as of today has yet to take down the post.
However, according to Yon’s Facebook page, the post is no longer an issue. “Am told that a couple commanders just had a meeting and talked about the issue. Was told five minutes ago that the case is closed and that all is good. Keep working,” wrote Yon.
Yon asserts the post violates no Op Sec policies, but hints that this disagreement could have ended his embed with the United States Army.
“If the military decides to end my embed, as it did last year, the Army will not end my coverage of the war. They will merely lose the opportunity to be seen through my lens and heard through my pen. I will no longer have the opportunity to tell their side of the war,” writes Yon.
Once Yon found out the post was no longer an issue, last night he went on to publicly attack the Public Affairs office on his Facebook page writing, “Well that's another Public Affairs mess made by Public Affairs. After about seven years of this, I hunt those guys like prairie dogs. They pop out of a hole and you've got to use good breathing and trigger squeeze. I'm with a great combat unit, 4-4 Cav, so I'm happy so long as I can keep the prairie dog population under control.”
I can’t imagine this will be the last word."
Milblogging.com
Operational security violations have come into question in the past, and now it seems a post titled Battlefield Forensics written in August 2011 and published on Michael Yon’s blog is the source of contention between Yon and a “certain” General who has instructed Yon to un-publish the post.
Yon received the message yesterday September 4 and as of today has yet to take down the post.
However, according to Yon’s Facebook page, the post is no longer an issue. “Am told that a couple commanders just had a meeting and talked about the issue. Was told five minutes ago that the case is closed and that all is good. Keep working,” wrote Yon.
Yon asserts the post violates no Op Sec policies, but hints that this disagreement could have ended his embed with the United States Army.
“If the military decides to end my embed, as it did last year, the Army will not end my coverage of the war. They will merely lose the opportunity to be seen through my lens and heard through my pen. I will no longer have the opportunity to tell their side of the war,” writes Yon.
Once Yon found out the post was no longer an issue, last night he went on to publicly attack the Public Affairs office on his Facebook page writing, “Well that's another Public Affairs mess made by Public Affairs. After about seven years of this, I hunt those guys like prairie dogs. They pop out of a hole and you've got to use good breathing and trigger squeeze. I'm with a great combat unit, 4-4 Cav, so I'm happy so long as I can keep the prairie dog population under control.”
I can’t imagine this will be the last word."
Milblogging.com
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