Military's Lamest Sites

Let's hunt to find the most mind-bendingly awful sites on the military web: the ones that make you cringe in their total indifference to public understanding, and good government.
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The military is notorious for its lame, completely uninformative websites. Can you find the worst one?

We've got a new contest over at the DANGER ROOM, Wired's new national security blog. It's a hunt, to find the most mind-bendingly awful sites on the military web: the ones that make you cringe in their total indifference to public understanding, and good government. Call it... The 404s, after the errors you get when you pull up a non-existent web page. You're all invited to join in.

The whole idea behind federal agencies having websites was to better inform the public about what was being done with taxpayer money -- and to share information across bureaucratic silos.

But, especially in the Defense Department, that hasn't happened. Many military websites
barely have any content at all. And what content they have is years out of date. In many cases, these sites actually inhibit the public's insight into the government, instead of enhancing it. They make the wheels of bureaucracy turn even slower, instead of speeding them up.

Let's make fun of them, for it. Send in your nominees for The 404s. And spread the word.

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