Website for Heroes-DoD Approved...

From spousebuzz.com:

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Pentagon officials approved “Websites for Heroes,” a network-secure, password-protected website for Soldiers and families. The website allows families to post 2-hours of video, unlimited pictures, message boards, kids’ pages and interactive calendars. The website will enable troops to maintain communications with their families during deployments and other assignments. Previously, the DoD banned social networking sites, such as MySpace and YouTube, from their computers making daily interaction difficult for military families.

“Websites for Heroes” is exempt from that ban and is accessible on DoD computers. Donations are accepted ($99 per year) for military families to access the site. So far, more than 1,300 military families have requested a website. For more information, go to http://www.websitesforheroes.com/.
Donations can be made from the general populous to help provide these sites for military families. Sponsors are continually needed. Military families can see the website FAQs here.

Have you signed up for this site? Are you currently utilizing this site successfully? Have you had any issues in signing up or using the site? Let us know.

I already "applied." You can apply for your husband.Where it says unit...I just did...'USS Ship Name Number on Ship Dept.' So ours was like USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN71 Weapons Dept. (I didnt wanna put his division.) They also ask for branch and rank.

THIS IS AWESOME!

With myspace and facebook banned...our DHs can check this on the ship computer...woot.

wow! this is awesome! we havent been through a deployment yet, but im sure this will help!

i have an acount on there for hubby this is a cool site.

i tried "applying" there and i never got an e-mail back confirming it :scratch:

yeah they sent me one later,just all bsing through it...'thank you for applying to Website for Heroes blah blah blah.We have many families on the waitlist blah blah blah.'

So they'll contact you once someone forks over $99...haha.

there's a waiting list for a website? that's so crazy, lol i don't know that it's worth it then but it sounds cool!

thats crazy when i applied it was like a few weeks ago and they approved it that day .

like I said they prolly had someone to approve your website because someone donated $99.

I think its worth it.I have no way of sending DH movies,and this would be an easy way for him to see something besides emails through Outlook.

so we dont have to pay the $99? we just have to wait to receive a donation...thats good i guess. maybe i should apply right now so then by the time he gets deployed we'll be all set!

yeppers....our deployment is still a month or so off...so hopefully someone will donate $99 for us soon.

Who knows!