Aunt of 3 ANG says:

I don't know about all the military, but when our guys were in Iraq for their tour of almost 2 yrs, they could never say exactly where they were located or what base they were on. They gave hints but they still couldln't mention it even when the news media reported from there. It they took pictures out on patrol that showed some landmark and the higher ups felt it compromised some security issue, that pic had to be taken off the blog. We all would have loved pic's like the ones you took. A friend of mine who is a major and from a dif state, told me where he was going to be stationed in Afghanistan before he ever got there. That 2 surprised me.