I have to admit, as someone who travels quite a bit (more than 50 countries) I am amazed at some of the advice given on here to people in an attempt to maintain OPSEC.
From my experience, having travelled with people who are less experienced, the more concerned you are with OPSEC and hiding that you are in the military, the more of a target you potentially become. I have been to a number of countries that are on the list of places to avoid, or maintain strict OPSEC, and have never had an issue. While in Russia I told a few people I met that I was in the military, there response was minimal interest and to ask if we have conscription.
The fact is, that at the level many of us are at, we dont have the knowledge of sensitive items that would be interesting to anyone out there. Most of the stuff that people who arent in SF units, or who arent deployed/about to be deployed, can be easily found through a google search.. much of which I am sure would lead back to this site, and stuff like militaryphotos.net
Teaching people to be safe is an excellent idea, teaching them to be paranoid, not so much. My travels have taught me many things, one of the most valuable is that if you stay out of bad areas, dont get too drunk, dont break the local law, and dont go looking for trouble, chances are you are going to have a great vacation and will have zero problems.
If anyone does have any questions on travel to weird places, shoot me a PM, or post it here so we can all learn from it.
Just filled out my notice of intent to travel to Belarus... this should be interesting!