I believe that since it is the official USMC website, that all photo's and recounts have been vetted for OPSEC. This is actually a protective measure. Nothing should be posted without proper vetting. An individual Marine or soldier would have no idea about the larger mission, and it really does help relieve them from individual responsibility. You know that it would devastate a Marine to have inadvertently provided ANY exploitable info.
As I wrote I realized the importance of SECOPS. I certainly am not arguing the case that SECOPS should be transgressed in any way. But I and dozens of Freepers daily break SECOPS rules. No one should be posting anything to any news paper articles posted as to anything happening in Afganistain, Iraq, Samolia, in short any where on the globe we have active duty troops performing some form of action. In fact to better assure SECOPS can be adhered to perhaps Jim should instruct the mods to stop any article with news on what is happening in the WOT and associated pictures from being posted. In short. No more discussion of the Iraq etc..
Also it would go a long way if the DoD could get the congress to pass a law that would prohibit any meantion of any military actions world wide, and of course stop any journalism from being allowed to function within any area where our military may operate. These measures would go a long way in adhering to the principals of SECOPS.