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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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Choose your Username. For the privacy and safety of you and/or your sailor, NO LAST NAMES ARE ALLOWED, even if your last name differs from that of your sailor (please make sure your URL address does not include your last name either). Also, please do not include your email address in your user name. Go to "Settings" above to set your Username. While there, complete your Profile so you can post and share photos and videos of your Sailor and share stories with other moms!

Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!

Join groups! Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself! Start making friends that can last a lifetime.

Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak

All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018.

Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)

Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC

...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.

OPSEC - Navy Operations Security

Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind. In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships." OPSEC is everyone's responsibility.

DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.

DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."

Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.

Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.

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Camp Lejeune and FMTB-East Moms, Families and Friends

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Camp Lejeune / Camp Johnson / Field Medical Training Battalion moms, family and friends - Welcome! Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune is home to more than 47,000 Marine and Sailors from around the world. FMTB, the eight-week training course for corpsmen, is on Camp Johnson, adjacent to Camp Lejeune.

Location: Jacksonville, NC (and everywhere they deploy!)
Members: 146
Latest Activity: Jan 26, 2023

Learn about Field Medical Training Battalion: Field Medical Training Battalion East, Camp Johnson/Camp Lejeune official website then -> Students -> Welcome -> FMST

FMF Qualification: http://navyformoms.com/group/fmf-corpsman-moms/forum/topics/what-it-takes-to-earn-the-fmf-qualification

Field Medical Training Battalion East on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FMTBeast?ref=br_tf

Overview of Camp Lejeune, the largest Marine Corps base on the East Coast: http://usmilitary.about.com/od/usmcbase/ss/Lejeune.htm includes driving directions, main phone numbers, Inn of the Corps, housing info.

VIDEO: What to expect at Field Medical Training Battalion East DVIDS video by Sgt. James Skelton, Marine Corps Combat Service Support Schools, March 2016. "This video is a guide on what to expect during the eight-week course that transitions corpsmen into the Fleet Marine Force."

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Comment by sheryl Navy 2 on March 10, 2014 at 8:05am: Here goes Tenn Navy Mom ...I finally post as I am about to start the journey with our younger sailor .he has just completed 2 yrs in Italy serving in Cappadachino clinic as a hospital corpsman . Now the next step is CLJ .
I am so thankful for all your advise over the past 3 yrs .he will be with us till Friday when he reports .

Comment by vanjr1 on March 6, 2014 at 11:18am: Thanks tenn navy mom and Marcy, time has gone by fast. He made his 1 year anniversary on Feb 12th but still a long road ahead with at least 18 more months of training. The temp will be about 45 and that's 45 degrees warmer than we have had back home for a few months so it's a heat wave for us. lol, Anyway we will have a few days with him so don't care to much about the elements. Will post some pics later. Thanks for the replies and God Bless!

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on March 5, 2014 at 10:56pm: Wow vanjr1, time has flown by! Congratulations to your 8404 corpsman on tomorrow's graduation, hope you can post some photos!

Comment by vanjr1 on March 3, 2014 at 9:23pm: My sailor graduates FMTB at camp Johnson Thursday so we will be driving down from Illinois to see him. Can't wait to see him. We were hoping for warm weather but looks like that won't be the case. Oh we'll, 45 degrees is better than single digit temps with we have had for 2 months.

Comment by vanjr1 on February 11, 2014 at 1:16pm: It appears 14020 is doing a "modified" field week due to weather for safety reasons according to the answer I got on the FMTB East Facebook page.

Comment by vanjr1 on February 10, 2014 at 1:26pm: FMTB East update. My Corpsman was so bummed today when they cancelled Field week which was suppose to start at 0300 this morning. He sent us a text at 0500 to express his disappointment. I guess there is a little snow and they decided to cancel. When your raised in the Midwest a little snow is a part of life. He was so looking forward to the activities they had planned. Hope they can get to it soon.

Comment by vanjr1 on January 21, 2014 at 1:53pm: There are more pictures of FMTB class 14020 on the FMTB east facebook page!

Comment by vanjr1 on January 17, 2014 at 3:36pm: Tenn Navy Mom, thanks for the compliment. I am very proud of what he is doing. He sounds so happy on the phone and he said he has never been more motivated about anything. I feel he is both physically and mentally prepared for this challenge as he has been training for over 3 years swimming, running and in the gym pushing himself to the limits as well as competing in MMA. He is a very mature 19 year old. I can't wait to hear stories from him later in life. I pray for him daily and that's what keeps me emotionally in tact. It will be an interesting journey for him and us. God Bless.

Comment by vanjr1 on January 17, 2014 at 11:42am: Navywife11213 here is a link to the FMTB facebook page. They are posted there.

https://www.facebook.com/FMTBeast

Comment by vanjr1 on January 15, 2014 at 5:02pm: Thanks tamme, Yeah, I think the final got harder from what I read in a Dec post form the previous class. That sailor said they do an 8 mile hike and are out for 5 days and can allow only 3 hrs sleep per night. Not sure if that is fact or not but we will find out in a about 6 weeks or so. Mine is 6'1" and 190 lbs, he's our youngest son but the tallest one. God Bless!