But now like-minded individuals have really taken a quantum leap forward. Check out TroopTube, a video-sharing service recently created to keep deployed troops in touch with the outside world. That’s not its only function, of course: By sharing troop videos, the Pentagon goes a long way toward getting its message out in a fascinating and immediate way. But as anyone who’s ever been in an MWR tent knows, troops downrange really want something cool to watch when they’re not hitting up their Facebook or MySpace. TroopTube is an excellent and overdue idea, and while I think it was created by Military OneSource, which I think is outside the Pentagon communications directorate, I’m sure the staff at DOD New Media welcomes this project with open arms and is already looking for that one video where the dudes ghostride an MRAP.