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Posted on Aug 30, 2022
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COL Randall C.
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*chuckle*

a. Maintain a Clear Distinction Between Personal and Official Accounts.
(1) DoD personnel must ensure that all personal social media accounts are clearly identifiable as personal accounts. DoD personnel must ensure that their personal social media accounts avoid use of DoD titles, insignia, uniforms, or symbols in a way that could imply DoD sanction or endorsement of the content. DoD personnel should use personal, non-official contact information, such as personal telephone numbers or postal and e-mail addresses, to establish personal, nonofficial accounts.

Umm ... yeah. I think that's going to be a big problem on this site unless there are big changes (... avoid use of DoD titles, insignia, uniforms ...). Not so much for the Vets, but the active duty accounts would need to change in order to comply with the new policy.
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PO3 Justin Bowen
PO3 Justin Bowen
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Given the content and tenor of the comments made by some of the people here, one can only hope that RP makes no changes.

I abhor the idea of my tax dollars being used to support bigots, supporters of domestic terrorism, opponents of democratic institutions, supporters of autocratic, neo confederates, anti-intellectuals, and other such people that permeate our military. If RP does nothing, it will be easier for the military to fund people still under contract and get rid of them.
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COL Randall C.
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Agree they need to be weeded out PO3 Justin Bowen. However, keep in mind that people that don't share your view (whatever it is) aren't extremists. People on both sides of the aisle have been called "domestic terrorists" (one side points to the Capitol riots as proof that they speak "THE TRUTH!" and the other points to the "Summer of Love" riots as proof of "THE TRUTH!" .... one side points to Republican candidates as election deniers and the other side points to Democrat candidates as election deniers. I'm sure the intellectually honest individual can find instances of extreme views on any side.

Maybe your experience is much more varied and wide-spread than the over 32 years I served in uniform, but I saw very few of these extremists that you reference "permeating our military". Absolutely there are bad apples that need to be stomped on when found, but the overwhelming majority of conservative and liberal folks I served with wanted to serve this country with distinction.

Just because someone disagrees with you does not mean they are evil and need to be destroyed.
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PO3 Justin Bowen
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COL Randall C. every definition of terrorism - legal and academic - accurately describes the Jan. 6 terrorists. It's not a matter of perspective; it's what they did.

Oh, and by the way, just because someone wasn't caught committing a crime or engaging in ethically abhorrent - yet still legal - behavior doesn't mean someone served with distinction. I worked with PLENTY of bigots. They were horrible people who did their jobs just as well as anyone else and shouldn't have been in the military.

If we can use the military to push desegregation, normalization of having women in the military, normalization of LGBTQ people I'm the military, acceptance of science (all worthwhile efforts), and many other cultural values not shared by a certain - large - segment of the population, then we can also use the military to turn bigots, terrorism supporters, anti-intellectuals, and so on into the social pariahs that they should be.

They violently attacked the Capitol because they lost the election and wanted to install a dictator. That's literally what they did and why. They weren't protesting "election injustice", peacefully touring the Capitol as tourists, or anything else of that nature. They violently attacked law enforcement officers by the dozens and looted and vandalized the Capitol (per Republicans' own views and Trump's own EO, they deserve 10 years in a federal prison for damaging federal property). Anyone who shares their beliefs and supports their actions does not deserve to be trained by the military, paid by the military, or given access by the military to the vast array of resources that the military has access to.
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COL Randall C.
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PO3 Justin Bowen, you're proving my point. Any items that don't meet with your view of "THE TRUTH!" are discounted because there is only room in this world for one view of "THE TRUTH!" Now, you are not alone in this view because politics have become a religion for the majority of the people and when discussing religion, there is no reasoning about what "faith" is.

I never mentioned that I served with the vast majority people being "ethically abhorrent, yet still legal" - they were ethically sound individuals that had their own reasons for supporting whatever political party they deemed. Again, your long and lengthy career in the military may have been different than mine and the exposure to these bigots/racists that seem to have permeated the military was plain for a lower enlisted vs senior officer. I'm willing to concede that as something that is possible.
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I am very surprised that the DOD is not specifically saying not to have the Chinese TikTok on any of your personal smartphones.

This article is from the Canadian BroadcastingCorp.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tiktok-fcc-1.6505269
The Canadian government is also against Chinese wawei systems.
Cpl Vic Burk SFC David Reid, M.S, PHR, SHRM-CP, DTM SFC Bernard Walko COL Randall C. Ryan Callahan
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Deborah Gregson
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SGT Wayne Grindstaff - It was a bad day when my flip phone was broken. I only use my "smartphone" for texts, calls, and photos (non-location/titled). Banker lady got irritated at me the other day because I wouldn't do banking on my phone and didn't have email access, but I told her I only did that with my home computer that was protected by a firewall.
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SGT Wayne Grindstaff
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Deborah Gregson - I'm only dependent on my phone when I'm on my boat or sidecar rig. I have gone days walking around with a dead phone or forgetting it and leaving it on the charger, my life still continues. More hard feelings and fights have started due to texting and even emails, I have seen it even in my own family where talking directly it wouldn't have happened. JMHO
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CMSgt Elbert E. Clayton
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SGT Wayne Grindstaff - It is not because I'm computer illiterate, but because I refuse to walk around with a telephone, my eyes downcast, and oops, telephone pole ahead of me. I've seen two younger people in the front seat of a car, sitting at a red light, both on cell phones! I wonder are they talking to each other or not. Who is driving the car. And I know there is a "shorthand" used for speed, but much of it is also illiteracy in sentence structure and spelling. I have one complaint about my cheap Flip Tracfone, and that is, I cannot download photos without exhausting my "minutes" by texting them to my computer. If anyone knows an easier and cheaper way, please advise. I'm a month short of 84 years old, started out on Punched Card Accounting (PCAM) machines, moved on to participating in worldwide installation of Burroughs 3500 (very large computer), and eventually Commodore 64s and 128s, and beyond. I despise Windows 10 and now 11. HP is superior to Dell, but both are adequate. Now the "crux" of this dissertation-OPINIONS ARE LIKE A--H---S, EVERYONE HAS ONE. Hope mine offends no one.
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SGT Wayne Grindstaff
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CMSgt Elbert E. Clayton - The rare photo that I need, whether it is sent to me by a friend or if I'm forced to take one, I forward it onto my Son. He then sends it back to my email. My buddies at the skeet range know if they have a picture they want to send me they send it to my email. My phone spent 20mins in the washing machine before I remembered it was in my pants, after 40 minutes in the toaster oven at 375 it still worked.
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Cpl Vic Burk
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Ryan Callahan Thanks for the information and share.
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