HooahRadio.com was started by a veteran of the U.S. Army who has son that just deployed in support of OIF.

They provide free streaming music for the troops and families. They also take requests.

As of right now, they are looking for DJs.

http://www.hooahradio.com

Great site and as soon as this "Websense - Internet Blocker" goes away, deployed Soldiers may be able to listen (unless you have a personal laptop with a civilian internet line)

I already emailed them about that. the bad thing is that in order to provide the music, they have to go through a service that makes it financially possible to gain the rights to use the music. Since it is so expensive to get these rights on their own, this service basically buys something like a "reseller account" for the rights and then sells the rights at a lower cost to their subscribers.

This means that they have to launch their streaming music directly from the site that they pay for the rights to use the music...and that site is probably the one the is blocked by most networks, not because the site is bad, but one bad apple probably wrecked it for everyone that used the service.

Those on a gov computer that don't have it blocked by websense, still probably have to have an administrator update their media player, which I don't see happening just because they want to listen to the radio.

It is a nice site for those that have access to it though.

Would like to hear from other deployed Soldiers about this. I was told that we are Websensed from servers in Kuwait.

If you are deployed, can you listen to the music on your government/personal computer?

If so, do you have administrative rights (which I do) to update your software.

This is probably one of the best ideas for deployed Soldiers, would just like to see some more feedback.