IMPORTANT: Revised Community Guidelines and Policies!

[Navy for Moms Admin]

Updated 10 July 2009
Message from Rear Admiral Robin Braun


N4M Members,

As I mentioned in my previous message, we have been conducting a very thorough review of the Community Guidelines to ensure we continue to provide our members the most rewarding experience possible while respecting the freedoms our Sailors serve to protect.

As you know, the purpose of NAVYForMoms.com is to bring together Navy parents and the parents of recruiting-age young men and women to discuss the multitude of leadership, training, and career opportunities our Navy offers and the great pride Navy parents have in their children. NAVYForMoms.com exists to allow families an open forum to discuss what life in the Navy is really like.

Today, I am pleased to announce the completion of this review and the adoption of new Community Guidelines for the NAVYForMoms.com website.

The goal of the new Guidelines is to facilitate open discussion without compromising the purpose of the website, namely the exchange of information relating to service in the Navy. As I noted in my previous message, your personal freedoms are extremely important to the Navy and my hope is that these updated Guidelines provide the best possible balance between the defense of those liberties and the integrity of the website.

I encourage everyone to review the revised Community Guidelines and to become familiar with acceptable use on the NAVYForMoms.com website. The new Community Guidelines may be reviewed here.

I would like to draw your attention to the discussion of off-topic posts and the need to keep discourse civil. These rules are intended to ensure that members get the quick and useful answers to their Navy-related questions in the friendly and collegial atmosphere that has come to define NAVYForMoms.com.

Please know that NAVYForMoms members’ suggestions played a critical part in the revision of the Guidelines, and we will continue to rely on your honest feedback as we strive to provide the best possible user experience.

As always, I would like to thank you for your continued support of the Navy family and our men and women who serve our great nation.

Rear Admiral Robin Braun, USN
Commander
Navy Recruiting Command

[Debby]

The Navy paid for my brothers med school but they will only pay for 3 years of the 4 ... and you must be accepted to med schoo first... now things may have changed over the last 8 years but its worth looking into...

[Debby]

Yep Donna your right... would you like a cookie?

[TexasDocMom]

for anyone too ignorant to know what a Navy Doc is..

I Am A Navy Corpsman
© 2003 by Mark A. Wright, HMC(SS) USN ([e-mail])


I am a navy corpsman. I possess the stamina and enthusiasm of youth and the wisdom and experience of an old man.

I am 3 parts doctor, 1 part nurse, 2 parts marine, 1 part yeoman and 3 parts mom, yet I am 100% sailor.

I am unemployable to the civilian world in my given profession yet have been the very life line for countless marines, soldiers and sailors since 1778.

I have carried marines from the battle field ... and have been carried reverently myself by marines who mourned my passing like that of a brother or sister.

I am young. I am old. brave, scared and scarred. my title has changed over the years: loblolly boy, surgeons stewart, pharmacist mate, hospital corpsman, IDC, yet with all the changes I am still simply know as "doc".

I have celebrated peace; yet felt the sting of war on the seas, in jungles, in foreign cities, in Washington D.C. and on beaches of every shade of sand... white, tan, coral and black.

I have raised hell on liberty; hope in the midst of battle .... and Old Glory on Iwo Jima.

I have removed appendixes on submarines and limbs in the midst of battle and many other procedures far above and beyond what I am expected to do by the normal practice of medicine because it had to be done in order to save the life of a marine or sailor in battle or under the ice, far from a doctors care.

I have ignored my own wounds to the point of death in order to stay at my station treating the wounded of my nations navy, marine corp, army and air force.

I have the highest number of medal of honors of any corp in the Navy .....most of them presented to my wife, child or mother because I was already in heaven at the time.

I am proud to know in my heart that every marine who has ever fought and every sailor who has gone to sea on ships owe their very lives to those they simply, yet respectfully know as "DOC"

how's those teeth KRN? I hear you chewed me up and spit me out...man, those must be some wonderful conversations in those private groups...bet Elle has a lovely time reading those!!

[TexasDocMom]

well, obviously I do or I wouldn't have posted it, now would I? or possibly the 450 moms in the corpsman mom's group.....maybe I should share that lovely piece of blog slandering corpsmen with them, yep...there's a plan!

[Debby]

KRN if your sailor is ever in the sand and is wounded you better pray to God there's a corpsmen near by... so frankly YOU should care...

[Debby]

I come here to help defend our sailors who are under attack by such wonderful pinnacles of society.. but as this goes on it sickens me more and more...

[TexasDocMom]

I’m the one called "Doc"

I shall not walk in your footsteps,

but I will walk by your side.

I shall not walk in your image,

I’ve earned my own title of pride.

We’ve answered the call together,

on sea and foreign land.

When the cry for help was given,

I’ve been there right at hand.

Whether I am on the ocean

or in the jungle wearing greens,

Giving aid to my fellow man,

be it Sailors or Marines.

So the next time you see a corpsman

and you think of calling him "squid",

think of the job he’s doing

as those before him did.
For the story of this poem read here

There are no unimportant jobs in the military, unless you're a bleeding Marine or sailor...then one matters most.

[Debby]

" If one of our Sailors is in harm's way, we bond together; if a Servicemember is kidnapped, we bond together: if our Nation is attacked by terrorists, we Americans put aside our differences, and we bond together." but yet attacking a sailor is ok??

[TexasDocMom]

I have no "wounds to lick"... in spite of what I heard you or your friend KK wrote in that filthy blog, no one has chewed me up or spit me out...keep that day dream goin' tho....if chewin' me up and spittin' me out is your goal, just c'mon....you've got a long, long way to go....

[TexasDocMom]

sorry, I had brownies at work...actually have brownies in the freezer...but I'll be awake all night if I eat any more chocolate!