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Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
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IMPORTANT: Revised Community Guidelines and Policies!
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
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Comment by Debby on July 19, 2009 at 4:50pm
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Kathleen I made an attempt earlier to read your blog along with the comments on another site that were made so I could see the entire picture.. yours is no longer public... and at this point I dont want to read it because its simple to delete posts that dont support or back whats being said... and others are coming here to fight this since all other area's to fight are locked down so the outside observer only gets the back end and not what started this all together...
TDM I raised 3 sons who grew up with the prejudice of their heritage.. they are 1/2 Iranian.. try living with that as a young child during the desert storm years or after 9/11 they still amaze me that even after the threats the feeling of fear they had they still chose to defend this country..not sure if I could have done that.. but then I raised some extrodinary humans.. I use to wake up to phone calls in the middle of the night having threats on my children's lives due to those wonderful do-gooders.. its funny how easily they are recognized regardless of the issue at hand... I fought for my kids when this happened just like you fight for your son... I know prejudice when I see it... regardless of the shape it takes.
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Just to make sure we all have not forgotten...
Pfc. Bowe (pronounced BOH) R. Bergdahl, 23, is still being held by the Taliban.
He is America's son.. he could be my son, he could be anyone's son on this site.. lets not forget him.
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Comment by TexasDocMom on July 19, 2009 at 5:03pm
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Deb, I hope someday our sons get to serve together. One of the things I tried to do when raising my kids was to work against letting them learn prejudice, even my own, because we know we all have them. And one thing I've heard over and over from people who know him is his ability to accept people as they are. We pulled him from one Boy Scout troop because of the terrible things he heard there about gays and lesbians....his new Scout master was a Navy vet, he told my son that you judge a man by how tall he stands beside you and how well he watches your back....then he saw Greg Loudanis in the Olympics hit his head that year. It blew him away when I said 'that is a gay man"...because Greg got up and dove again and won. Then, by getting involved in the theater in high school (mostly because no one else would walk the cat walks!), he met so many different types of people, and figured out on his own...people are people. It's about them looking you in your eyes when they speak and standing behind their word. I really admire him that he looks at diverse people with curiosity and respect, not with fear or hatred. It makes me very proud of him.
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so you're introduced another identifying factor on him...you are a real piece of work,...you know those women are searching for his real identity and you can't do enough to help. I call that a conspiracy. and so will the prosecution if anything happens to him because of being identified with the help of your hints.
You could simply delete it, but you'd rather continue spreading it around.
You were going off on your facebook about "a crazy guy is stalking me.." and I told you who it was so you wouldn't feel threatened. Then, if I remember correctly, since I can no longer access that page (funny how that happens with your posts, Kathleen, ) you said it was wonderful he was so passionate, blah blah...in the meant time I guess you and your hubby were having the lovely duck conversation...yes? and then you called your son to confirm the sexuality of someone he had never met...and then you posted that your husband and son had decide my son was gay.
yeah. you're something. Destroying someone's career based on lies just doesn't bother you does it?
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Actually Inga, in one of the posts he does mention minorities....funny we never heard he was a gay Mexican, or gay italian...or whatever...just gay. It's so much more dramatic and no one can call you a racist.
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I tried to access this "blog" and couldnt ... I really am sickened by this... and I hope that other mom's reading this from the sidelines feel the same way..
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Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
~Norman Mailer
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Amanda if a person needed to provide an answer to a question I had especially something this sensitive.. it could have easily been done through a pm... I would ask the same question about OPSEC myself...
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No results were found for 'The Navy New Guidelines...have they engaged in tryanny?'. I copied exactly what you said the name of the blog was and this is what i got... but I do appreciate your "Debby couldn't "seem to find it" remark..
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I can't speak for TDM.. but apparently there are others tied to all of this who are not posting but I suspect are sitting back watching this play out...
Kathleen you might find it hard to believe that I am also a Conservative Christian Republican.. but I grew up in a home that believed that God was a loving forgiving God and all of us are his children.. and that its up to God to sit in judgement of others not me.. and thats what I do I live my life and let others do the same..
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