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Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
I read this was to free up the satellite channels for weapons and such.
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Well, that, and to keep people from writing home and saying "Hi Mom! My battalion of 635 people and 25 humvees will be moving up 150 miles into Iraq next Monday..." I'm assuming the army email sites are monitored at a much higher level than is possible with, say, Hotmail or Yahoo.
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And from a nobody Joe citizen, thanks for a job well done! 
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Oh yeah, beer! I do miss beer.
Thinking back to the Camp Doha (Kuwait) days, I believe the scaredest I had been in my life, for about 0.5 seconds, was about the third scud alarm. Whenever they detected an incoming missile, alarms all over base would go off, then we would put on all our chem/bio protective gear and watch Fox News to find out what was going on (in the one photo, you can see the reporter on TV in his gas mask as well, as he reported from Kuwait City on the alarm).
So, although it was somewhat routine (we had several drills in the weeks prior), there was always a little pucker factor involved. The missiles, of course, usually missed whatever they were targeting by miles, and were shot down or landed in the sea. But this time, we heard a really loud rocket sound as the alarm was going off. That sound turned out to be one of the nearby Patriots launching to intercept it, but for that split second I was sure it was an incoming missile headed right for us.
In hindsight, I guess you could call it kind of exciting. OK, maybe not.