I founded Milblogging.com in September 2005. Prior to Milblogging, I ran a military blog from Afghanistan while I was deployed with the Army National Guard during Operation Enduring Freedom V. My original military blog "The National Guard Experience" was written as a means to stay in touch with family, friends, and supporters while on deployment. During my deployment I decided to create an aggregator site of military-related blogs from around the world. Milblogging is an internet database for organizing military blogs. It’s main attraction is its index of military blogs from all over the world. In late September 2005, I launched the website. In an effort to accelerate the spread of soldier-journalism, Milblogging was acquired by Military.com in January 2006. In June 2007, I was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as an Infantryman running Convoy Security missions throughout Iraq and continued to maintain Milblogging.com as well I participated in Deborah Scranton's film "Bad Voodoo's War". I returned back to the U.S. in May 2008.