US Marines pull the plug on photojournalism experiment

I sure hope these are not iPhone images....

These images look eerily similar to those by Damon Winters that the NYT published late last year. This pp treatment just needs to go away...

photoshoot

High time pro war photographers gave up, and let the guys killing each other take the pictures of them doing it. They managed to do so with those dreadful torture sequences that had far more impact than any preceeding footage from that area ever had, and of course, it means less lives are at risk, or lost, since the embedded pros will remain absent, and alive

Basetrack

As the father of a 1/8 Marine all I can say to Tivadar, Balazs, Teru & everyone at Basetrack is thanks. Their work with the Marines, and kindness they showed the families and friends of the Marines will never be forgotten.

Basetrack from afar

Much as I think Basetrack is a laudable way of facilitating communication between all stakeholders, I have to say, as a past officer in military intelligence (not US), my blood runs cold as to what an enemy could do with the information provided.
Details including the names of serving soldiers, identification of family members back home, where they are operating and their good and bad experiences is a disaster waiting to happen. If the Taliban don't use this information then, yes, they are primitive.
Professional soldiers are just as such. They become so knowing that they will be away from loved ones for lengthy periods of time and accept the security limits imposed.
Fighting and shooting and trying to stay alive is their job and in our military, only thoses who actually want that, join up. I really don't think that Marines need to be emotionally propped up, or do they?
Call me out of date, but I know what I could do with all that information and it would not be nice.
As an exercise though, its great. I can see its use for journalists in conflict zones, but it has to be heavily censored otherwise its showing your arse to the enemy.