Kaboom: A Soldier's War Journal

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Kaboom: A Soldier's War Journal was a popular military blog from November 2007 to June 2008, before it was shut down by the writer's military chain-of-command.^[1] The author of the online journal, who went by the pseudonym of LT G, wrote about the front-line experiences in the Iraq War as a United States Army soldier.^[2] A scout platoon leader, LT G often incorporated the trials and tribulations of his platoon in his writings, offering a brash and brutally honest perspective of modern warfare.^[3][4]

Kaboom was shut down, and subsequently deleted, after LT G made a post detailing his turning down of a promotion in an effort to stay with his soldiers - thus casting some of his superior officers in an unfavorable light.^[1]

Up to Kaboom going black, it was one of the few military blogs to garner attention and press coverage from the print media. ^[5] This can be attributed to LT G's literary writing style. ^[6]

In a nationally published story chronicling the rise and fall of Kaboom, LT G was revealed to be Matt Gallagher, a young Army officer who had been promoted to Captain soon after his blog was shut down.^[7] As of August 2008, Gallagher had signed with Wm Clark Associates, a literary agency based out of New York City.^[8] In May, 2009, Da Capo Press announced they would publish a book version. Entitled Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War, it is set to be published April 1, 2010. ^{[9] [10]}

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• Kaboom: A Soldier's War Journal, archive of old posts made to the original blog
• "Army Orders Soldier to Shut Down Kaboom Blog" by Gil Kaufman, MTV News 28 July 2008