I think I'm going to start a "lessons learned" thread on this tomorrow or the next day, after things have quieted down a bit. But yes, social media played a big part in this. That's good, and bad. We were getting a ton of news fast, but not all of it was real. Which is par for the course when you're trying to gather intelligence. Every G/2 and S/2 officer I've ever known had gray hair.
YouTube played a huge part in this, too. Regular TV news didn't cover much of this, but internet videos more than made up for that lack of coverage.
And, as Fal3 said, this was a huge PR boost for the militia.
