Today from the PBS MediaShift blog we have a truly interesting story on a new milblogging project. It’s called 30 Days Through Afghanistan, and it consists of two US Air Force sergeants (Sgt. Nathan L. Gallahan and Sgt. Kenneth J. Raimondi) who will be–as the name suggests–traveling throughout Afghanistan for 30 days and blogging and video-blogging daily about their experiences.

As the article mentions, the military has had a somewhat less-than-encouraging stance on social media, so this perhaps represents a great opportunity to have some servicemembers on the ground tell their stories in a public forum.

“This is revolutionary, I don’t think anything like it has been tried in the military before,” Gallahan told me. “I have a responsibility to the taxpayers to provide them a completely unbiased look at what’s happening. There’s good things happening here, there’s bad things happening here. You talk about both of them, and let the readers be the judge.”

There is also a good Q&A with Gallahan and Raimondi in the article, where the bloggers discuss their goals, their methodology, and what the project may represent.

You can check out the 30 Days Through Afghanistan site here. Read the full article on MediaShift here.