Ask The Chairman - On YouTube

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a well known Twitter and Facebook fan, has now added YouTube to his social media arsenal.

Mullen has invited the troops to join him in a YouTube-driven "virtual town hall" between now and the end of the month, and he is open to any questions from folks in uniform or from their families.

"The chairman really wants to have a conversation with the troops akin to the way he does all-hands calls at bases all over the world," Navy Capt. John Kirby, Mullen's public affairs officer, told American Forces Press Service. "He wanted that conversation to be as interactive as possible and reflective of what is on their minds."

Though it's an oft-repeated assumption that Web 2.0 technologies are the province of the young, the 63- year-old Mullen proves that age is no barrier to using any of these tools.

I guess I'm going to have to do something with my Twitter account besides just letting it sit there.