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orangecrush

(27,202 posts)
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 07:23 AM 16 hrs ago

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

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/


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Navy launches review of Marines' and sailors' personal social media posts (Original Post) orangecrush 16 hrs ago OP
Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated. Irish_Dem 16 hrs ago #1
The Borg................ Lovie777 15 hrs ago #2
I can only imagine what the military generals and troops are saying about the orange F wad. Irish_Dem 15 hrs ago #3
The beatings will continue orangecrush 15 hrs ago #4
We are more like China and Russia every day. Irish_Dem 15 hrs ago #5
LOUD & CLEAR czarjak 13 hrs ago #8
They'll fire anyone who is too liberal or opposes indiscriminate killing IronLionZion 13 hrs ago #6
All shipboard communications are subject to monitoring pfitz59 13 hrs ago #7
New. Can. Of. Worms! czarjak 13 hrs ago #9
Appropriate Acronym, No? "DON." ColoringFool 13 hrs ago #10
Did they find out someone posted something "woke"? DBoon 12 hrs ago #11
Privacy is long gone in the U S of fuckin' A. twodogsbarking 10 hrs ago #12
How long before they put bugs in military housing? And when do they have to bow before the king? appleannie1 9 hrs ago #13
John Phelan, US Secretary of Navy. NO military experience whatsoever! 70sEraVet 9 hrs ago #14
Next to be monitored will be emails, then phone calls, dinner table chats, pillow talk, etc. TheRickles 9 hrs ago #15
If you can't stop them from thinking for themselves,... LudwigPastorius 9 hrs ago #16
Gleichschaltung Bavorskoami 9 hrs ago #17
In the Marines, bitching is a universal secondary MOS....maybe primary MOS. albacore 9 hrs ago #18
cardboard box... keroro gunsou 8 hrs ago #20
Will they share the results of their investigation? BurnDoubt 8 hrs ago #19
MAGA mad because they were caught as being nazis Blue Full Moon 7 hrs ago #21
My suggestion to enlisted sailors & marines would be to start an underground online newspaper. Crowman2009 4 hrs ago #22
Hope they like mutinies and desertions. Crowman2009 4 hrs ago #23
It sucks to be a pilot when the troops are pissed! BidenRocks 3 hrs ago #24
Are some sailors privately objecting to Naval Death Squads? thought crime 3 hrs ago #25
In other words, anything against Charlie Kirk... n/t gay texan 3 hrs ago #26

Lovie777

(20,876 posts)
2. The Borg................
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 07:54 AM
15 hrs ago

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

(76,931 posts)
3. I can only imagine what the military generals and troops are saying about the orange F wad.
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 07:55 AM
15 hrs ago

IronLionZion

(50,200 posts)
6. They'll fire anyone who is too liberal or opposes indiscriminate killing
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 10:05 AM
13 hrs ago

and promote MAGA loyalists

pfitz59

(12,009 posts)
7. All shipboard communications are subject to monitoring
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 10:30 AM
13 hrs ago

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?

appleannie1

(5,375 posts)
13. How long before they put bugs in military housing? And when do they have to bow before the king?
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 02:07 PM
9 hrs ago

70sEraVet

(5,056 posts)
14. John Phelan, US Secretary of Navy. NO military experience whatsoever!
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 02:17 PM
9 hrs ago

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

(3,027 posts)
15. Next to be monitored will be emails, then phone calls, dinner table chats, pillow talk, etc.
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 02:29 PM
9 hrs ago

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

Bavorskoami

(159 posts)
17. Gleichschaltung
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 02:36 PM
9 hrs ago

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

(2,728 posts)
18. In the Marines, bitching is a universal secondary MOS....maybe primary MOS.
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 02:36 PM
9 hrs ago

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.

BurnDoubt

(1,161 posts)
19. Will they share the results of their investigation?
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 02:53 PM
8 hrs ago

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

Crowman2009

(3,335 posts)
22. My suggestion to enlisted sailors & marines would be to start an underground online newspaper.
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 07:40 PM
4 hrs ago

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

BidenRocks

(2,453 posts)
24. It sucks to be a pilot when the troops are pissed!
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 07:54 PM
3 hrs ago

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!

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