THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, December 7, 1995 TAG: 9512070330
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A9 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT
DATELINE: WASHINGTON LENGTH: Short : 35 lines
The real troops still have to show up in person, but the Pentagon announced this week that cyber-soldiers can follow the U.S. military's deployment in Bosnia on the Internet.
A ``BosniaLink'' home page on the World Wide Web began operating on Tuesday, providing a variety of information on the mission and the Clinton administration's rationale for ordering it.
The site on Wednesday included lists of U.S. active duty and reserve units identified for possible involvement in the mission. Also available were transcripts of Pentagon press briefings on the deployment, Defense Secretary William Perry's testimony on Bosnia last week to a Senate committee and biographies of the senior uniformed commanders involved.
The page also lets web browsers link to NATO and State Department web sites with other material on the deployment.
The site is accessible through DefenseLink, the Defense Department's home page, at ``http://www.dtic.dla.mil/defenselink.'' From there, visitors also can link to web pages maintained by each of the military services and read messages from Perry and Gen. John Shalikashvili, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
BosniaLink also can be reached directly at ``http://www.dtic.dla.mil/bosnia/index.html.''
KEYWORDS: BOSNIA by CNB