Free Republic

WASHINGTON, July 21, 2006 – Military disc jockeys based in Afghanistan today inaugurated radio-broadcast news and other programming to an estimated in-country audience of 18,000 U.S. servicemembers, an American Forces Radio and Television Service official said here today. "There's no other radio service that they can listen to that gives them detailed information about what's happening on their base and area," Andy Friedrich, deputy director of AFRTS, said during an interview at the organization's headquarters in Alexandria, Va. Active-duty Army, Air Force and Marine radio broadcasters, technicians and administrators working out of a studio at Bagram Air Base operate...