We may already have some affiliation with them. Stripes is a pretty big organization.

I saw you and another person here had a few gray areas about Stripes in earlier post so here is the skinny.

Stripes has three main offices, Pacific, Europe and Middle East and a headquarters in D.C. We are not propaganda by any means, but were in the distant past. We are now the only editorially independent news agency in the DOD. We print papers all over the place, not just in our main satellite offices - Tokyo and Kaiserslautern, Germany (both Europe and Middle East is headquartered in K-Town).

All the final touches to the different editions is done in D.C. then sent digitally around the world to something like 50+ countries to get printed and distributed. We even had a paper route in Haiti during the U.S. military's relief efforts. We always use local printers to save money on shipping and it's a lot faster, so the troops aren't reading old news. If there are U.S. troops there, there are most likely freshly printed S&S.

LA Times approached us last year and wanted to do a feature on our paper routes, "The Bravest Paper Boy," and "The Most Dangerous Paper Routes" was few of their proposed headlines. Once the reporter from the Times got downrange during a pretty big U.S. offensive and saw what it actually took to deliver a paper to a forward deployed combat unit, he had a change of heart and got on the next flight home.

Would have been a good story though and it would be to self promoting to do it ourselves.

Now you know, and knowing ...