Army to Allow Some Social Networking

Week of June 22, 2009

Soldiers at some Army installations can now view their Facebook pages on Army networks. A recent operations order from both the 93rd Signal Brigade out of Fort Eustis, Va. and the 106th Signal Brigade, out of Fort Sam Houston, Texas, instructed Directors of Information Management to modify Web filtering software to allow access to several social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Vimeo. The commander said the unblocking of some social networking sites keeps with the Army senior leaders' direction to have Soldiers tell the Army story. Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations, under U.S. Strategic Command, is the ultimate authority for which websites must be blocked on military networks.

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