YES!!

Once YOU attain QP Status, feel free to "modestly" inform others as to your "Status", but with a great deal of restraint!! Until you get there, YOU AIN'T!!!

Remember the old saying.....All a steer can do is TRY!!!

Later
Martin

on facebook i found this link http://www.facebook.com/help/contact...delete_account to permantly delete your account. if you just use the deactivate account button your account will still be there forever. apparently this link will get rid of it forever. hope this helps and/or does what it says it will. but at this point most of the damage would already be done.

also with some more research i found out that reputation.com offers the service of removing all of your personal information from all of these websites. the great part is that they do it for free for active duty military using this link http://www.reputation.com/?code=officers2009

i called the customer service line and they emailed me that link. for badge number just type "us military"

This might be a stupid question......
 

But I don't know, we'll see.

So, having your face plastered all over facebook, and myspace, and twitter, and blah, blah, any number of countless social networking sites is a bad thing. I get that absolutely. But I don't understand how the whole t.v. thing works out. Years ago, I remember a show on the History channel about U.S.Army Special Forces, (it was great by the way!), and it had to do with the Robin Sage Excersise. Now I haven't been able to find that video in digital format or vcr, for that matter, and would love to have it, but the point is, I still remember what several of those guys look like. I am relatively sure I would recognize at least 1, 2 maybe even 3 of them in a line up. 2 for sure. Especially since I have found a few clips of that video showing at least one of those individuals. Now those guys can't all be retired, or well....dead, for lack of a better easier way to say it guys. SOrry. I figure that's probably a bad subject. But you understand my point. Then you have shows like Surviving the Cut....come on! Not all of those gentlemen I am sure wanted there faces on t.v., but I can't help but think maybe they didn't have much say in the matter. I don't know how that works. My point being, I can download surviving the cut, I can memorize a few faces if I so chose to do so. Not all of those guys will make it through the q, but if I have a computer, I could conceivably get there pictures and start putting them into the hands of my guys,( if I was a foreign intelligence officer...I would imagine), and just keep a look out for them or troll the internet. RIght? So those guys on these t.v. shows, are they purposefully screwed out of ever doing the more clandestine stuff? I mean, I am just one man, but millions watch those types of shows, and I would think that would give them more exposure. So I guess my question now that I have finally gotten it out is, "ARE THEY SCREWED? And was it purposefully done? OR are they just actors, portraying real people?" I mean I would think that would pose a greater threat to national security than who Donny was screwing last night at the freaking bar being posted on facebook. Also, what about these guys who's family members are bringing video camera's to the GB graduation, and then posting not only video of the guys graduation, but his full name!!!!???? NOW THAT TO ME!! IS just wTF??? ANd the National Geographic programs, and sixty minutes where oh yeah they are wearing sunglasses, right, a good imagination and you can pretty much yeah, who didn't know that batman was actuall bruce wayne in the sixties t.v. series right? Well, I mean this is kind of a serious question I think, because if you don't have a choice to be on one of these shows....then does it really matter? And if you do have a choice....what qp would volunteer for that knowing the danger involved? Wow, sorry guys this has lead me down a path of a lot of questions. Troubling ones for me. Thanks in advance, for everything so far, and for an answer if you choose to give me one. I am really confused on this part of the whole opsec stuff. It's not clicking to me how facebook vs. being plastered on t.v. would be any different. Why would the military allow it if it would limit some of there soldiers capacity to do there job? I know that the SF community is pretty small comparatively. The loss of a few good men, for a pr opportunity just doesn't quite.....well sit well, but it doesn't quite sound like something that would be done either. Help me understand guys. Please.

It's S.O.P to have your features altered via plastic surgery after you're filmed. That's the reason our medics receive such extensive training, and why our wives sometimes don't recognize us after a mission.

Ah yes.... I remember my first facial reconstruction like it was yesterday. Or maybe it was yesterday. I forget. The whole thing...changes..... a man. You understand.

Are you sure you're not talking about your vulvodynia treatment? :D

Hey, I got sand in there. Not funny, Ok?

:D

I'm surprised and then some...
 

Good thing about having a "one off" name; I took care of this pretty easily.

Bad thing about having a "one off" name; anything I've done is easy to find.

Better to be in the dark looking into the light, than being in the light looking in the dark.

Thanks TS and the others.

S/S A-Team
 

I remember the Stars and Stripes coming to Tolz in the 80's wanting to do a story and shoot photos of an A-Team. The CSM (former Son Tay raider) tasked HHC, S/S got photos of one of the lesser known A-Teams composed of the admin specialists, cooks and mechanics. One nice off-shoot was that the HHC team was more diverse than those in A, B, or C companies.

MVP

Its (not so) funny how times and things change.

Today team guys have their picture posted, in uniform all over the place like its the thing to do. I suppose 10 years of mostly DA centric operations will make one lose focus on what SF was originally stood up to do and how having one's face or other distinguishing features and markings visible over a wide array of mediums could affect that mission...

These threads work. Just deleted my facebook.

Without revealing too many "secret squirrel" techniques, the procedures used by SF Medics to complete the surgeries briefly mentioned by Dusty were "outed" in the movie "Face Off" - with Travolta and Slater. (I went in thinking it was a hockey movie.)

Not only does "exchanging faces" with another result in a new face, complete with hairstyle, etc. - it also miraculously gives you the body of the other person. Thereby, each person is totally different, and unrecognizable - even to their spouse.

(Pink font not used because I reallllllllllly didn't think it was needed.)