Citations:milblogger

Noun: "(Internet) a military service member who writes a blog"

 * 2006, Hugh Hewitt, Painting the Map Red: The Fight to Create a Permanent Republican Majority, page 150:
 * While the active-duty milbloggers remain on the whole apolitical, their belief in their mission, which is not merely debated on the lefty blogs but often denounced in the harshest of terms, has made milbloggers in turn generous in their links to those that support their mission.
 * 2006, Carl E. Dauber, "Life in Wartime: Real-Time News, Real-Time Critique, Fighting in the New Media Environment", in Military Life: The Psychology of Serving in Peace and Combat, page 203:
 * One milblogger who writes anonymously, (as many do), commented in private correspondence with the author:
 * 2008, Michael D. Doubler, The National Guard and the War on Terror: Operation Iraqi Freedom, page 81:
 * A number of milbloggers converted their work to published books after returning home.
 * 2008, David D. Perlmutter, Blogwars, page xvi:
 * The president of the United States himself decided to address the 2007 convention of milbloggers (military bloggers) via video link to rally support for his war in Iraq.
 * 2008, Jonathan Silverman & Dean Rader, The World Is a Text: Writing, Reading, and Thinking About Visual and Popular Culture, page 591:
 * Whether posting from inside Iraq on active duty, from noncombat bases around the world, or even from their neighborhoods back home after being discharged — where they can still follow events closely and deliver their often blunt opinions — milbloggers offer an unprecedented real-time real-life window on war and the people who wage it.
 * 2009, Melissa Wall, "The Taming of the Warblogs: Citizen Journalism and the War in Iraq", in Citizen Journalism: A Global Perspective (eds. Stuart Allan & Einar Thorsen), page 35:
 * The rise of milbloggers writing from within the war zone itself suggests that in terms of international news reported from outside the West, citizen journalism—just like mainstream news reporting—is likely to be more easily done by Westerners.
 * 2019, Nicholas S. Paliewicz & Marouf Hasian Jr, The Securitization Of Memorial Space: Rhetoric And Public Memory, page 202:
 * Instead, mainstream journalists, milbloggers, and many others who read and talk about this place want to hear more and more uplifting stories about the heroism of diverse social agents who collectively know the importance of fighting “America’s Way of War.”