Email access to the deployed

On Tuesday, 18 October, the Navy and Marine Corps blocked all access to comercial e-mail services from overseas government computers. That includes Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, Google and others. This is to reduce vulnerability of military computers to hacking. This also means that you can no longer use any of those addresses to communicated with your Marine overseas. The Navy will assign each Marine and official, unclassified email address (ending in .mil) that they can use for communication with family and friends. This is likely a surprise to many people. Your Marine will have to send you a message or call you with their new email address. Make sure your SPAM filter accepts any message with a .mil extension.

Thank you to the Marine Corp Family Support Community for this information. They are based out of Columbus, Ohio. If you'd like to visit their site for more infomation and how you can be involved with supporting our troops around the globe, please go to: http://www.mcfsc.com/index2.html