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MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. - Recently, the Marine Corps has partnered with the Family Programs Division to create eMarine, a more robust and user friendly form of communication online.
The eMarine site is essentially a social media program featuring more security and better communication between the Marine, the unit and their relatives than other current sites.
“I believe eMarine is a huge step forward for us,” said the Mark S. Laughton, the family readiness officer of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing. “It’s going to allow the individual command to have its own controlled site to post family readiness information, provide email capability for the command to communicate with family directly. Also, some of the technology that’s coming in the future, there are going to be some things that will excite folks like the ability to do online chat with your FRO, giving them the capability to pose questions and go back and forth.”
eMarine started as an initiative on the West Coast, said Laughton. Gen. James F. Amos, the commandant of the Marine Corps, was impressed with the programs success and ordered the system to be instituted over the whole Marine Corps because it was superior to the tools the family readiness officers had at the time.
Marine Online, Facebook, Marines.mil and the mass communications tool were the main sites previously used by FROs, said Kimberly Johnston, the FRO of Marine Aircraft Group 14. According to Johnston, the mass communications tool was expensive, Marines.mil and Facebook aren’t secure enough and Marine Online just isn’t as good as eMarine.
Johnston detailed how the page would work.
“There are four different pages - a Marine page, a spouse page, a parent and extended family member page, and a home page,” Johnston said. “If it’s applicable to everybody, we’ll put it on the home page. It can be anything from the Naval Health Clinic information to upcoming events to the command’s bio and command intent. For the spouse page, there’s a lot of volunteer information and deployment related information. Things that are parent-specific go on the parent and extended family member page.”
Service members will become “sponsors” on the site and can access all the pages. Each sponsor can add up to 5 members of their family members as subscribers.
With eMarine service members and all their subscribers can safely communicate, access documents, review photos and videos, participate in forums and gain important information about their unit from anywhere in the world.
As stated on the site, eMarine promotes a community feeling within units by providing a place that is customized to the unit and contains content that is controlled by the unit. These sites can be accessed any time to view information and photos, read stories, ask questions in forums and much more.
Service members should contact their FRO to get started on eMarine.
| Date Taken: | 11.04.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 11.04.2011 13:09 |
| Story ID: | 79572 |
| Location: | MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, NORTH CAROLINA, US |
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