When I was in Iraq, the base would turn off the internet until family members could be notified of deaths. Of course if you had a private connection in your quarters that was available.
Musta have been how my wife's friend found out. Thanks I thought they blacked out things Until Contact with the family was done. Course now then it's all over facebook I would imagine.
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