Is that why you call yourself "Grey"hawk?
The situation Hartley got himself into certainly isn't new. Way back before the microcomputer and the Internet, I remember being on the carpet for having written something I thought was totally innocuous to my wife that got into the rumor mill back home. It wasn't anything I actually said, just what some people interpreted it to be. The Internet does change the terrain though. For one thing, there is now an exact record of what you actually say (which can be good thing--or not.) The feedback is also more immediate. By the time my little mistake came back to haunt me, I had nearly forgotten just what it was about. Of course, with the Internet, any embarrassment is spread WAY much wider. I remember reading Hartley's blog back when he was still at Ft. Polk. Even then, I thought, "Yep, that’s the way it is in the service, but he is embarrassing his superiors. This won't last long." When I was a Seaman, I thought that the Ensign was a moron and I could do his job a lots better than he was doing it. Then one day I was the Ensign, and guess what, that job wasn't nearly as easy as I had thought. You're right. One should write a Milblog as if the Chairman of the JCS was reading it. In addition, you should consider how your words will be taken by Aunt Mildred, your buddy's wife and the NYT.

Exactly. Writing honestly about what is going on around you has certain perils. One you put it out there, you better assume that everyone is reading it... most especially the people you are writing about.
I've written accounts of stuff that would have really embarrrased people, or myself, but I had the sense to at least change the names of the guilty parties... but I had one of my old NCOs discover my archive, and was absolutely thrilled to go through it. He sent me some terribly flattering e-mails... and then he recognized a reference to himself, a very much less than flattering reference. I am long-retired, so what can he do to me, but active duty milbloggers have to figure out a way to keep their blog seperate from their chain of command.