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]

My flag is up all year...and I hate to admit it because I have done many flag ceremonies over the years of Scouting and military life, but it does not come down in the rain. It's up too high for me to do easily and I promised my kids I wouldn't be climbing ladders without someone around! My Navy vet neighbor leaves his up as well, he says since we're Navy (and old) we get special rule adjustments. And as he said, that flag has been through worse than a little Central Texas rain...of course, this year and last year, rain isn't really much of a problem...we haven't gotton any.

[diane {Shawns mom}]

Me cher, you must not know me....I was responsing to the comment posted previously to mine...that its...I am NOT one to stir up anything...

[diane {Shawns mom}]

I believe you and me are on the "same" page.....keeping the thread positive, that is and was my intention.....didn't want to stir anything....♥

[diane {Shawns mom}]

Kathleen....dinner, what did you end up making...That is something we definitely HAVE in common..Hate planning meals daily...I did...a Stouffers meal last nite..fast -good-1pan...now tonite..no plan...♥

[TexasDocMom]

Sad to see folks wanting to spread dirty laundry out to the world...wonder when I see my name, the names of my fellow Navy moms, my son being slandered again...on this web site.

Please note, this was not one of those "liberal moms" starting this on the ALIPAC board. None of us nasty ol liberal moms have posted there at all. Yet the attacks continue...and spread.

[TexasDocMom]

Katy, I was being facetious, joking, with my comment about "nasty ol liberal moms"...I'm actually quite proud to be a liberal, so I don't consider it an insult or my comment a "tirade". I do see that you have been lumped in with us, mainly because you do not agree with that particular group of women posting on that web site. It's how it has always worked here, if one disagrees with them, then that person is "attacking". The point they seem to think important (even if it's inaccurate) is that you are some kind of "newcomer", simply because they didn't know you before this blog. There's 20,000 people on this website, I guess any that they don't know aren't part of their clique and considered "new comers" by them and as such, should not offer any opinions about this site.

Our tomato season is coming to a close, it's getting too hot on a regular basis for the tomatoes to "set"...I made a pot of salsa the other day for the freezer..and hope to get at least one more meal of fried green tomatoes out of my neighbor's garden. Yes, burgers, chips and junk food is a great meal on busy days.

[TexasDocMom]

I'll post my son's grandmother's salsa recipe, it's excellent.

Lynne, perhaps you should reread my post written here today. It states I wonder "when" I will see my name posted again. If you are a reader of Katy's blog, then of course you've seen it there...as well as on krazykurt's blog, I'm sure.

[diane {Shawns mom}]

I love spagetti...I think I will make that tonite. I had just got back from Seattle and feeling a bit of Jet lag, whatever that is suppose to be...and have NO energy. And for me, thats a NO go...I am always bouncing from one thing to another..So to feel like this is awful. NOW i am hungry!!! ♥

[TexasDocMom]

I use muffin tins for meatloaf...every piece is an "end" piece, my favorite part...plus they freeze really easily.

[diane {Shawns mom}]

Inga you make me laugh...
think of it "meatloaf" doesn't it sound Disguising. I do like it but who made up that word..meatloaf.
And TDM..that is my fav too..the end...love it..still hungry!!!