Vantaggi
As a writer or editor, you are serving people who risk their lives to preserve our way of life. You work to inform the troops, you are NOT a mouthpiece for the brass.
Svantaggi
Unfortunately, this venerable newspaper that has been around since the Civil War might be going the way of the dodo bird. It faces what all newspapers are facing, declining readership and thus declining revenues. Add to that the drawdown of the military everywhere (some fueled by Defense budget cuts, some simply by troops coming home from war zones), and readers become few. Which means advertisers don't advertise. Stars and Stripes does have a website, but even if it remains the paper's sole presence, it is debatable how much revenue it can generate, and at that, it won't take many people to maintain the site.