Received this request via email. As I'm not familiar with military regulations in this area, I'd certainly say that any servicemember interested in doing this should familiarize themselves with appropriate guidelines beforehand. I do have to say that it's nice to see a media outlet that's interested in what the boots on the ground have to say:

Channel Five News in the UK is planning to do a series of stories about Iraq . We would really like to get anyone serving in Iraq to make a short video for us for our ‘Your News’ section of our news programme and website...

...Your News is a part of our programme and website where real people in the community air their videos about their experiences, local issues, campaigns etc and is an important part of our news output.

The videos would only need to be a couple of minutes long and could easily be filmed by mobile phone, digital camera etc.

The film could be about who they are, where they are, what they are doing, how they’re feeling – anything they want it to be about and could be a film of them talking as well as footage of what’s going on around them if possible. The films could be made by anyone out there serving in any capacity – they would all be very interesting.

We’ll also give those that do go on the television £100.00 too. (about $197 USD)

The video can be uploaded via our website www.five.tv/news, sent by MMS to +44 (0) 7729 555 555 or emailed to me directly laura.wilshaw-AT-bskyb.com. They can also contact me directly on +44 (0) 20 7800 2749.

They can see our website at www.five.tv/news where we have a different Your News video every day...

Kind regards,

Laura Wilshaw

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