Navy launches review of Marines' and sailors' personal social media posts

[orangecrush]

Navy Secretary John Phelan has announced a review into whether sailors’ and Marines’ social media posts have been “misaligned” with official guidance.

The Department of the Navy is looking into whether sailors’ and Marines’ social media posts have violated the department’s social media guidance, according to a recent message from Navy Secretary John Phelan.

“At the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, the DON [Department of the Navy] is actively reviewing reports related to Service Members social media activity that is misaligned with the DON’s current social media guidance,” according to the Oct. 24 “All Navy” message. “The guidance remains in full effect, and we are committed to upholding the highest standards of conduct. Service members are expected to uphold Navy and Marine Corps core values on duty, off duty, and online.”

The message does not specify what exactly prompted the review, or how sailors’ and Marines’ social media posts may have been “misaligned” with official guidance.

Navy officials did not provide a statement for this story due to the ongoing federal government shutdown.


https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-secretary-social-media/

[Irish_Dem]

1. Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.

[Lovie777]

2. The Borg................

cyborgs, The Collective, perfection by "forcibly assimilating".

I don't think the military are too pleased with Pete Hegseth, who never served his country militarized and like shithole, who is a complete sociopath.

[Irish_Dem]

3. I can only imagine what the military generals and troops are saying about the orange F wad.

[orangecrush]

4. The beatings will continue

Until morale improves.

What a fucked up time to be in.

[Irish_Dem]

5. We are more like China and Russia every day.

[czarjak]

8. LOUD & CLEAR

[IronLionZion]

6. They'll fire anyone who is too liberal or opposes indiscriminate killing

and promote MAGA loyalists

[pfitz59]

7. All shipboard communications are subject to monitoring

but now it seems even private criticisms of policy or 'Dear Leader' will get sailors trouble. Wonder if this extends to bas housing or shore facilities?

[czarjak]

9. New. Can. Of. Worms!

[ColoringFool]

10. Appropriate Acronym, No? "DON."

Following the edicts of The GodAwfulFather.

[DBoon]

11. Did they find out someone posted something "woke"?

[twodogsbarking]

12. Privacy is long gone in the U S of fuckin' A.

[appleannie1]

13. How long before they put bugs in military housing? And when do they have to bow before the king?

[70sEraVet]

14. John Phelan, US Secretary of Navy. NO military experience whatsoever!

An investor who hosted a VERY profitable fundraiser dinner for trump -- that seems to be his only qualifications.
DAMMIT! Why can't we have a simple rule, that to be the Secretary of a branch of the military, the candidate should have SERVED in the military!!

[TheRickles]

15. Next to be monitored will be emails, then phone calls, dinner table chats, pillow talk, etc.

A slippery slope that will be hard to climb back up.

[LudwigPastorius]

16. If you can't stop them from thinking for themselves,...

just replace them. Eh, Hogsbreath?


https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a40732357/one-third-navy-warships-robotic-by-2045/

[Bavorskoami]

17. Gleichschaltung

Not surprisingly there is a German word for what is happening.

Merriam-Webster says:
Gleichschaltung - noun
Gleich·​schal·​tung ˈglīḵˌshäl(ˌ tu̇ŋ, -təŋ

: the act, process, or policy of achieving rigid and total coordination and uniformity (as in politics, culture, communication) by forcibly repressing or eliminating independence and freedom of thought, action, or expression : forced reduction to a common level : forced standardization or assimilation

[albacore]

18. In the Marines, bitching is a universal secondary MOS....maybe primary MOS.

Any clampdown will be met with clever and brutal work-arounds.
An entire squad of Marines managed to get past an AI powered camera, "undetected". Two somersaulted for 300m, another pair pretended to be a cardboard box, and one guy pretended to be a bush. The AI could not detect a single one of them.
You can tell Phelan never served.

[keroro gunsou]

20. cardboard box...

looks like we got some Metal Gear Solid players in the ranks...

[BurnDoubt]

19. Will they share the results of their investigation?

How embarrassing to find out the rank and file are not on-board with this fuckery?
What then??
Lies, of course.
Poo Tee Weet.

[Blue Full Moon]

21. MAGA mad because they were caught as being nazis

[Crowman2009]

22. My suggestion to enlisted sailors & marines would be to start an underground online newspaper.

Sort of an electronic version of the ones printed during the Vietnam war. Either via social media, blog, substance, e-mail, etc

[Crowman2009]

23. Hope they like mutinies and desertions.

[BidenRocks]

24. It sucks to be a pilot when the troops are pissed!

All the briefing, dressing and strapping in, only to find something leaking which will take an hour to fix!

Repeat!

We did this in 1975.
We were The Blacksheep!

[thought crime]

25. Are some sailors privately objecting to Naval Death Squads?

Not private anymore...

[gay texan]

26. In other words, anything against Charlie Kirk... n/t