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Brandon White talks about gwot dot us.

Question: What are three things your readers probably do not know about you?

1. I put on this tough guy facade (being in the Army and all) but deep down I am truly a big softy, and a hopeless romantic for the love of my life, Ashlee.
2. I truly love writing, not just blogging and getting my word out, but truly love the poetry that is words and all that comes with them, emotions, fears and everything in between.
3. Another thing that most people won’t suspect with this tough-guy facade is that I am a tried and true computer geek. I run a linux box and can tell you have to overclock your CPU in two minutes flat.

Question: How long have I been blogging and why did I get into blogging?

Well I’ve only been blogging since I’ve arrived in Afghanistan for my tour here in June of 2006. My original intent was to only keep my friends and family back home informed as to my happenings in a combat zone. Since then, the blog has blossomed and I now have readers from all over the globe and because of this I now have a responsibility to all of my regular readers and not just my friends and family.

Question: What is my military experience?

Well, I’d like to say that it has been totally great, but I can’t. More like a system of hills and valleys with more valleys than hills. The Army for me has been being away from friends and family for great lengths of time (2 years in Germany, year in Iraq, and now a year in Afghanistan). I’ve learned a great deal about myself from the Army and wouldn’t take any of it back if I could, but it’s been tough and has tested my strength as well as my spouse’s.

Question: What are some of my other favorite milblogs?

I have several milblogs that I love to read and visit regularly. Blogs like Blackfive.net, Badger’s Forward, Gazing at the Flag, The Thunder Run, SGT Hook and A Soldier’s Perspective definately top the list. Pretty much all of the links you find on the sidebar of my blog, I visit and read regularly.

Question: What has been the biggest factor in helping you create and publish a successful blog?

The biggest factor, hands down, at creating and publishing a successful blog has been my reader feedback left in the comment sections of my blog posts. Without my readers letting me know how my writing has affected them, I certainly wouldn’t have had the confidence in my abilities to continue blogging to the scale at which I have been. Without my readers, I have no blog.

Question: Do you have anything else you would like us to mention about you, your blog, or your readers?

Yes. If everyone who reads this hasn’t done so yet, head on over to gocomics.typepad.com/the_sandbox and read soldier-contributed stories from the frontline. Garry Trudeau has truly created something great with The Sandbox, go there and be educated about what life in a combat zone is really like.

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