Army embeds active-duty PSYOPS soldiers at U.S. TV stations

The U.S. Army has used local television stations in the U.S. as training posts for some of its psychological-operations personnel, The Upshot has learned. Since at least 2001, both WRAL, a CBS affiliate in Raleigh, N.C., and WTOC, a CBS affiliate in Savannah, Ga., have regularly hosted active-duty soldiers from the Army’s 4th Psychological Operations group as part of the Army’s Training With Industry program. Training With Industry is designed to offer career soldiers a chance to pick up skills through internships and fellowships with private businesses. The PSYOPS soldiers used WRAL and WTOC to learn broadcasting and communications expertise that they could apply in their mission, as the Army describes it, of “influenc[ing] the emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign audiences.”

Legitimate? perhaps. But why use civilian stations when the Armed Forces Network could be used for the same purpose? Actually AFN operates differently from civvy stations in that civvy stations are linked and somewhat controlled by MSM in that AFN isn't. So the bells & whistles one must learn to operate a civvy type station is quite different for sure.

All in all I want to believe the official reason but something tells me not to. What do you all think?

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