Terms of Use
While this is an open forum, it's also a family friendly one, so please keep your comments and posts clean. You participate at your own risk, taking personal responsibility for your comments, your username and any information provided. Comments and posts that violate any of the guidelines listed below may be removed:
• Do not post graphic, obscene, explicit or racial comments . We al
so do not allow comments that are abusive, hateful, vindictive, or intended to defame anyone or any organization.
• Do not post any solicitations (i.e.: asking users to "like" your page, visit your website, sign a petition, and contribute to a fundraiser).
• Do not post advertisements, prize contests or giveaways. This includes promotion or endorsement of any financial, commercial or non-governmental agency. Similarly, we do not allow attempts to defame or defraud any financial, commercial or non-governmental agency.
• Do not post details about an ongoing investigation or legal or administrative proceeding that could prejudice the processes or could interfere with an individual's rights will be deleted from this page.
• Apparent spamming or trolling will be removed and may cause the author(s) to be blocked from the page without notice.
• Do not post copyrighted or trademarked images or graphics. Imagery posted on the Facebook wall should be owned by the user.
• Do not post comments, photos or videos that suggest or encourage illegal activity.
• Do not post political propaganda.
• Do not post documents of any kind.
• All information posted to social media sites will be unclassified. No FOUO (for official use only), classified, pre-decisional, proprietary or business-sensitive information should ever be posted or discussed on this page. This is a violation of privacy. The appearance of external links or the use of third-party applications on this site does not constitute official endorsement on behalf of the U.S. Army or Department of Defense.
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The Defense Department reserves the right to review, edit, move or delete any material submitted as a comment or placed on this profile, without notice. Comments submitted to these sites will be reviewed and inappropriate comments may be deleted at the sole discretion of the Defense Department. We hope to receive submissions from everyone, but we ask that all participants agree to the following Terms of Participation:
• Please post only questions about or related to the U.S. Department of Defense.
• Refrain from posting questions that contain threats, obscenity, material that would violate the law if published here, abusive, defamatory or s*xually explicit material.
• Submissions containing the following will be deleted:
- Contains obscene or threatening language or discrimination (hate speech) based on race, s*x, gender, religion, national origin, age, or disability.
- Promotes services or products (not including non-commercial links that are relevant to the topic) including SPAM!
- Includes any personal or sensitive information (phone numbers, email or postal addresses)
- Operational Security (OPSEC). All personnel (including families and friends of service members) have a responsibility to ensure that no information that might put our military members in jeopardy or would be of use to our adversaries is posted to websites that are readily accessible to the public. That information includes, among other things:
− Technical information
− Operation plans
− Troop movement schedules
− Current and future locations of military units and ships
− Descriptions of overseas bases
− Details of weapons system
− Discussions of areas frequented by service members overseas
− Other information that's not as obvious but should also not be discussed in an open forum includes daily military activities and operations, equipment status, unit morale, and results of operations. Any of these topics, if released in an open medium, have the ability to provide our adversaries opportunities to harm our military members. For more information on the DoD Social Media User Agreement visit: http://www.defense.gov/socialmedia/user-agreement.aspx
