{"id":248631,"date":"2026-07-21T17:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248631\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:25:12","slug":"pa-army-bases-shutting-down-social-media-pages-amid-federal-order-to-ensure-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248631\/","title":{"rendered":"PA army bases shutting down social media pages amid federal order to &#8216;ensure well-being&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/USAWC\/posts\/pfbid0ZUNNxaYz5d3d2HDHuUwPzocvDvypJgCWgq8mP8tRAEVGXM4KixpPzvFkmMK3SdF9l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. Army War College<\/a>, along with other well-established military bases across the Commonwealth, announced they are closing their social media pages at the end of the month per a new federal directive.<\/p>\n<p>The takedowns aim to &#8220;ensure the well-being&#8221; of &#8220;soldiers, families, and Department of the Army (DA) Civilians&#8221;, the directive outlined.<\/p>\n<p>The war college said the directive is &#8220;part of a service-wide effort to streamline our digital communications.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The post went on to say that all channels will be shutdown on July 30.<\/p>\n<p>In a post made by the Tobyhanna Army Depot, the base said its channels will close on July 28.<\/p>\n<p>CBS 21 also reached out to the Letterkenny Army Depot, which confirmed it will be following the directive and deactivating its Facebook, X, Instagram, and LinkedIn accounts on July 30.<\/p>\n<p>While the order impacts Pennsylvania bases, the federal directive applies to all bases across the country.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are exceptions stated by the directive.<\/p>\n<p>Effective immediately, only the Army organizations listed in enclosure 2 are authorized to operate official social media accounts. All other organizations must close and archive their accounts pursuant to Army records management policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) \u2014 The U.S. Army War College, along with other well-established military bases across the Commonwealth, announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-248631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}