Well, our hard working U.S. Troops have lost one outlet of entertainment in the battle to keep the DOD's infrastructure intact. Eleven "bandwidth hogs" among them MySpace and Youtube are officially off limits to U.S. Troops now. Guess they'll have to re institute USO Tours, because god knows there's not alot of entertainment to be had in the land of sand and insurgents. DailyTech reports...

U.S. military personnel will no longer be able browse many popular websites the Defense Department has flagged as "security challenges" and bandwidth hogs

On Friday, a memo from General B.B. Bell, the commander of U.S. Forces in Korea, stated that 11 sites will be off limit to members of the military. YouTube and MySpace top the list of sites that pose a potential risk to information security. The memo also acknowledges that even though most of the traffic to these sites is benign, they place an unnecessary drag on the military's online infrastructure.

"This recreational traffic impacts our official DoD network and bandwidth ability," according to Bell's memo.

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