April 23, 2009
CinCHouse.com announced a new ‘signature’ education campaign aimed at teaching new military wives the importance of operational security. The massive numbers of new recruits have led to an influx of ‘newbies’ on the CinCHouse site, and CinCHouse moderators have re-doubled their efforts to ensure its strict operational security policy. To pre-empt the issue, CinCHouse has launched a ‘signature’ campaign which provides free digital images and HTML code which visitors can place in their signature lines on CinCHouse.com or anywhere else they go on the Internet. The signatures remind military families that any discussion about troop and equipment movement is strictly forbidden and could cost lives.
“We must teach new military wives on CinCHouse and across the Internet that careless talk about troop movements can costs lives,” said founder and editor Meredith Leyva.
CinCHouse has always maintained a strict policy on operational security, not even permitting users to mention whether their service members will return from deployment in time for their birthday. The signatures feature a combination of modern images and classic World War II-era posters. HTML code is provided in CinCHouse’s popular “
Siggies & Images” section where forum users normally obtain fun images for the signature lines.
“Military families cannot make it easy for terrorists to string together information that could aide them in their operations against American troops,” explained Leyva.