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

[TexasDocMom]

Mary, your son will get some abbreviated orders for situations like that,make sure you get a copy.You'll fax them to Verizon and they should put it on military suspension.

[TexasDocMom]

Well, hopefully, Verizon will have it together better than Sprint did the first time my son was deployed. The second time, I didn't mess with a phone call, I just went to the Sprint phone with the orders and the kid took care of it in about two minutes.

[TexasDocMom]

Who's Proud Mama? Inga?

[TexasDocMom]

"accept" is what you meant yes?

you go on and hang yourself here, we'll all just watch. This is becoming a fun blog to watch, especially on a hot Saturday night!! a toddy or two last night ladies?

Have a nice day!!

[TexasDocMom]

yes, let's discuss that...Navy moms purposely trying to destroy the career of a young Navy sailor by spreading lies and innuendos about him, lies that would put him at odds with Navy policy. Let's discuss that, the type of person who would do it...and let's link to those lovely blogs where it is happening by these Navy moms...that young sailor has a sibling, want to discuss her as well? and he has other family, too...go for it all, Kathleen, Wendy, Donna... Then we can go to those blogs, like yours, Kathleen, to see the cherry picked parts picked out by your discretionary eye cut and pasted, then posted on your blog...and you of course have that right to refuse to allow comments...just your cherry picked views and the attacks of those you support will shine. And yours Donna where you continue to threaten that young man and his family, even tho no one in that family has done anything at all to you or however many daughters you have.

[TexasDocMom]

I don't know what God you pray to, maybe when you're sitting in church this morning, you can ask Him how proud he is of you for what you are doing to an American sailor, whose only "crime" is speaking up against hate of a whole section of the American people. Yeah, I'm bettin' He has some thoughts on that matter.

[Debby]

I wonder what many sailors would say if they saw this thread and the attacks.. I can't tell you how proud I am that my son is in Iraq right this minute and my sailor is going back in a couple months so that the men they serve with can be absolutely crucified by the people of this community... My son is a Petty Officer.. thank goodness in the Navy the term Petty doesnt mean what I it means with some posting here...

[Debby]

You know Kathleen just saying "Let's not continue with that, ok?" doesnt resolve the issue... so since its still being discussed.. its still an issue.. and until all parties involved FIX what they did I am sure its going to remain an issue.. and its reprehenisble for you or anyone to create allegations of a brave sailors or soldiers sexual oreintation knowing what it could not only mean to their career but to what could happen to their life due to the homophobic fire going on in the miltary thanks for adding the gasoline...

[TexasDocMom]

My momma had a saying "don't break that arm patting yourself on the back..." funny, huh?

thanks, Deb...we so appreciate your efforts as well as the others who have spoken up as well as having the class to do so without naming names and identifying anyone

. I think what's being missed here is that Kathleen, since she was evidently the only Navy mom on this board to speak up for free speech, has evidently become the authority about what topics will be ( or not) discussed freely. And she wants us to talk about cute stories about our siblings. She gets pretty frustrated when people don't listen to her and follow her directions.

[TexasDocMom]

FYI...it is being discussed albeit by cut/paste on another forum. I'm not fooling myself that these posts will be here tomorrow. But they are all posted in a public forum.