Greetings all

Have returned from embeddedness with 1st Battalion, 25th Marines exercise at 29 Palms. Survived sandstorm, snowstorm, and a sniper who seemed to dislike the media. Bottomline: it's not easy teaching military cultural awareness, as you shall see when I show some clips. With lean mean crew of Udris brother 6 hrs hi-def dv, 4 hrs dv, 1 hr super16 film, and over 400 stills were shot (some pix to follow). If anyone wants to help log this stuff, let me know.

Thanks to John Santos, Leora, Joe et al for keeping the ship on course. This week we go back to the future, looking at how the Cold War morphed into the Long War. We have some special guests coming to the seminar: five high-flyers from the Army War College, to give their perspective on the relationship between the military and the media. We'll be holding class in the Watson Joukowsky Forum since some other students will be joining us (feel free to bring a guest) and we want to shoot it with the robotic cameras. In case someone wants to gain some experience in robotics, they should let ellen and me know, pronto (first ones get into the control booth..). And if anyone wants to vblog for x-credit let me know as well.

See you at the screening Tuesday evening....

JDD