BASETRACK | 1-8

BASETRACK | 1-8


Basetrack is an independent, civilian media project, funded by a 2010 Newschallenge Grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.


This is an experimental media project, tracking the deployment of 1/8
– 1st Battalion, Eighth Marines, throughout the duration of their
deployment to southern Afghanistan. A small team of mobile media
operators is embedded with the battalion, transmitting their reports
and reflections from Helmand province as they travel across the
battalion’s area of operations.

Basetrack’s forward team is supported by a network of technologists,
analysts, artists, and journalists, working around the clock, from
around the world, to connect over a thousand Marines and Corpsmen to
their families, and to connect a broader public to the longest war in
US history.