It’s taken about five years, but someone somewhere finally came up with the idea to install a non-military internet wifi set-up on base. Pretty amazing considering the Air Force has decided IT is the protector of the cybersphere, even setting up a unified command to do just that (Cyber Command… I kid you not!). Unfortunately, they are antediluvian when it comes to providing computer and internet access to their own people.
Anyway, about 5 days ago, the non-restricted wifi access went live here on base. Suddenly every kid with a computer was crammed into the Bra and 
the Community Center where the only hotspots exist, free at last to check their Facebook pages, and send IM’s to their loved ones back home. I think it was a great move.. people came out of their rooms and sat around in droves… chatting and connecting with the folks back home.
Today the internet dried up. For some reason the base network when into conservation mode, and as a by-product, the live internet which was SUPPOSED to be supplied by an outside source un-related to the military, dried up too. I’m sitting in the rec area composing this, and at least 15 people have come up to me and asked if the internet is up (it’s not). Everyone has the DTs right now…. They’ve had a taste of freedom and it’s been suddenly taken away… Very disorientating… Hope it ends soon. (Of course, when you see this, you’ll know it obviously has!)
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