Both US Armed Forces News Service (USAFNS) and Web Independent News Service, L.L.C. are independent organizations, and are not part of, nor endorsed by, any agency of the United States government.
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US Armed Forces News Service Website is wholly owned by Web Independent News Service, L.L.C. The organization was incorporated under the laws the State of North Carolina on 30 December 2002. It was created for the sole purpose of creating a platform for the publication of news items about our servicemen and service women.
USAFNS Contact information:
Web Independent News Service, LLC.
P.O. Box 3603
New Bern, NC 28564
Phone Number (252) 633-0161
admin@usafns.com
For many years, the US Navy's Fleet Home Town News Center (FHTNC)of Norfolk, Virginia has created news releases about US Navy, US Marine Corps and US Coast Guard service members for publication in hometown newspapers. The Joint Hometown News Center (JHNC) of San Antonio, TX does the same thing for USAF and US Army service members. Unfortunately, many of our service members do not receive hometown newspapers, or their hometowns do not have newspapers. Hopefully, our servicemembers will have access to the internet so that they can view the news releases about themselves.
We Support our Troops by publishing news releases that report the activities and accomplishments of active duty service members of our Armed Forces. This site is dedicated to the members and families of the Armed Forces of the United States of America. This includes the US Army and the US Air Force releases are processed and released by the JHNS of San Antonio, TX. USN, USMC and USCG releases are handled by FHTNC. There are minor exceptions to handling responsibilities. For example, if a US Navy servicemember is assigned to a US Army unit, the releases will follow the path used by the US Army unit. Hence, the release will find its way to JHNS. Releases are published for all 50 states, plus 9 US Territories and Possessions.
Please remember:
"They also serve who only stand and wait" - John Milton, 1655
All releases are received via email, thus saving the US taxpayer the reproduction and mailing costs associated with hardcopy sent through the US Postal Service. The automated posting process takes place every working day, once every hour from 8AM to 8PM at 23 minutes after the hour (all times Eastern). Currently, all releases are left on this website for 89 days, after which, they are deleted at 5:00AM 7 days a week through another automated process.
Media Representatives: Please note that releases posted by AFNEWS or FHTNC have been released for publication and are public domain. Also, you are encouraged to contact AFNEWS and FHTNC using the contact information below:
Joint Hometown News Service
Joint Hometown News Service Hometown News Marketing Mr. Gerry Proctor Phone (210) 925-9733 Fax: (210) 925-3467 Link: http://www1.dmasa.dma.mil/hometown/
Handles US Army & USAF Releases
Fleet Hometown News Center
FHTNC Media Liaison MC1 Elizabeth St John, USN 9420 3rd Ave, Suite 100 Norfolk, VA 23511-2125 Phone (757) 444-7549 Email: Elizabeth.A.StJohn@navy.mil
Handles USN, USMC & USCG Releases
Website History (What's New?)
2009-01-26: FHTNC resumed feeding their releases (USN, USMC and USCG) to USAFNS.com
2008-07-21: Increased Hometown News Release retention period from 60 to 90 days.
2008-05-13: In an attempt to retain Hometown News Releases for one year, the total number of releases increased to a point that they were causing causing server problems. All releases were deleted in order to rapidly ease the burden on the server.
2007-10-01: RSS.XML & Technorati links added to all State Hometown News Release Pages - all 60 of them.
2006-11-28: Major Revision Completed
2006-07-11: Major Revision Partially Completed - New Features:
1 - Added "Link to US" webpage.
2 - Added "Friends of USAFNS" window on most webpages.
3 - Changed source for news feeds for Army, Navy, USMC, USCG, USAF, AAFNG, US DOD, Iraq, Mideast, War on Terrorism, and Top headlines.
4 - Updated page design to make website more readable.
5 - Updated Email Bag, From Our Troops,
From the Pentagon, Gunner's Blog, and all hometown news release
pages (60 total, 50 states, 9 territories/possessions and 1 page
for APO-FPO addresses).
2005-10-27: Changed All Pages to New Header See
2005-07-29 entry. New graphic requires 17KB vs. 60KB.
2005-10-22: Revised Individual News Release Pages
News Release pages have a new look. I changed appearance of the
news. The font and color have been changed to help the reader
distinguish between the news and the other information on the news
release pages. It should be easier and more enjoyable to read them
now.
2005-10-21: Added Stan's Roll Call Blog Stan is a cyber
buddy that I have never met. We met through "Slow Bell"
(www.slowbell.com) website several years ago. Stan and his friends
from Slidell, LA are valiantly trying to maintain contact
following the ravages of Katrina & Rita. Visit the blog to
learn of the hardships and disappointments that they are
experiencing trying to get their homes repaired, or simply to find
living accommodations anywhere. Truly heart rending.
2005-07-29: Revised Home Page The page has a new
look. The objective of the change is to reduce the size of the
"Header." Google indexes only the first 101K bytes per page. The
graphics of the five seals used over 60K bytes, so many of the
pages were not completely indexed.
2005-07-27: Updated Military Humor The
page has a new look, and the ability to post and maintain is much
easier. We plan to post a new joke daily.
2005-05-15: Added Random Images From Friends. If you have any photos of military subjects that you wish published on the "Friends" page, send them to Webmaster. Please,
NO PHOTOS OF MINORS!
2004-06-10: Added Google Search capability to all USAFNS webpages. Set to
default to searching www.usafns.com pages only.
2004-05-18: Added Google advertisements to produce an income to help pay for
server rent and software.
2004-03-11: Added ICRA PICS Label to
identify website as appropriate for children. Also, installed
homegrown visitor counter. Visitor counter now displays visitors
to page being viewed, as well as the total visitor page count for
website.
2003-12-19: Removed the capability for
visitors to leave messages for the troops. Unfortunately, this
action was necessary due to abuses.
2003-12-18: Awarded Military.Com's
Distinguished Site Award for 2004.
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