Command Chief of the Georgia Air National Guard

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Any information or material placed online, including advice and opinions, are the views and responsibility of those making the comments and do not necessarily represent the views of The Department of Defense, the United States Government or its third party service providers. By submitting a comment for posting, you agree that the Department of Defense, the United States Government and its third party service providers are not responsible, and shall have no liability to you, with respect to any information or materials posted by others, including defamatory, offensive or illicit material, even material that violates this Agreement. EDITING AND DELETIONS The Department of Defense reserves the right, but undertakes no duty, to review, edit, move or delete any material submitted as a comment to the information provided for display or placed on the social media web sites in its sole discretion, without notice. Comments submitted to these sites will be reviewed and a representative sample may be posted on the Web site, or in the case of social networking sites, inappropriate comments may be deleted at the sole discretion of the Department of Defense. We hope to receive submissions from all viewpoints, but we ask that all participants agree to the following Terms of Participation: * To ensure constructive questions, please post only questions directly related and relevant to the 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: o Contains obscene or threatening language or discrimination (hate speech) based on race, s*x, gender, religion, national origin, age, or disability. o Promotes services or products (not including non-commercial links that are relevant to the topic) o Includes any personal or sensitive information (phone numbers, email or postal addresses) o 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. Not surprisingly, 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, or 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. External Links (including Advertising Links) The appearance of external hyperlinks does not constitute endorsement by the United States Department of Defense of the linked web sites, or the information, products or services contained therein. The United States Department of Defense does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. All links are provided consistent with the stated purpose of these Department of Defense (DoD) web sites. DISCLAIMER: Reference herein to any specific commercial products, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes. With respect to documents available from this server, neither the United States Government nor any of its service members or employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, including the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights ought to be included. Please let us know about existing external links which you believe are inappropriate and about specific additional external links which you believe ought to be included. GEORGIA NATIONAL GUARD TERMS OF USE
These media may contain e-mail services, wall posts, messages, notes, blogs, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal Web pages, calendars, photo albums, videos, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with others (each a "Communication Service" and collectively "Communication Services"). Those who use the Georgia National Guard's Communication Services must do so only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and, when applicable, related to the particular Communication Service. These channels are NOT a substitute for the Chain of Command! All standards of military decorum and propriety apply. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using the Communication Services, you will not:

* Use the Communication Services in connection with surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, junk email, spamming or any duplicative or unsolicited messages (commercial or otherwise).

* Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.

* Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.

* Upload, or otherwise make available, files that contain images, photographs, software or other material protected by intellectual property laws, including, by way of example, and not as limitation, copyright or trademark laws (or by rights of privacy or publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consent to do the same.

* Use any material or information, including images or photographs, which are made available through the Services in any manner that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary right of any party.

* Upload files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer or property of another.

* Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such Communication Services specifically allows such messages.

* Download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally reproduced, displayed, performed, and/or distributed in such manner.

* Falsify or delete any copyright management information, such as author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded.

* Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services.

* Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service.

* Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including email addresses.

* Violate any applicable laws or regulations.

* Create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others.

* Use, download or otherwise copy, or provide (whether or not for a fee) to a person or entity any directory of users of the Services or other user or usage information or any portion thereof. LINKS TO ANY THIRD PARTY SITES
Links on this site may let you leave the Georgia National Guard’s site. The linked sites are not under the control of the Georgia National Guard and the Georgia National Guard is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained on a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites. The Georgia National Guard is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any linked site. The Georgia National Guard provides links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by the Georgia National Guard of that site. OPERATIONAL SECURITY (OPSEC)
Operation Security (OPSEC) includes any (CLASSIFIED) information including, but not limited to, the movement of soldiers in and out of theaters of operation, current and ongoing military operations, or tactics, techniques and procedures poses a security risk to soldiers. This risk needs to be mitigated at all times, and any (CLASSIFIED) information containing dates, complete names, and the locations of soldiers or their immediate family, and military operations needs to be guarded and kept confidential at all times. This is a public Web site and as such there is no way to control whoever may view the information that is posted. MATERIALS PROVIDED TO THE GEORGIA NATIONAL GUARD OR POSTED AT ANY GEORGIA NATIONAL GUARD WEB SITE
The Georgia National Guard does not claim ownership of the materials (including feedback and suggestions) you post, upload, input or submit to any Services or its associated services for review by the general public, or by the members of any public or private community, (each a "Submission" and collectively "Submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting ("Posting") your Submission, you are granting the Georgia National Guard, its affiliated companies and necessary sub-licensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses (including, without limitation, all Georgia National Guard Services), including, without limitation, the license rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; to publish your name in connection with your Submission; and the right to sub-license such rights to any supplier of the Services. Thank you for your continued support of the National Guard.