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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 Tamme on March 27, 2013 at 4:52pm: Welcome txdylansmom. My son finished FMTB last year and stationed in Beaufort, SC. He is now on deployment with the Marines in Afghanistan. During FMTB, he was able to come home on most weekends since we live in Charleston. During FMTB, he lived in a "dorm" and it was sort of like being back in bootcamp with the daily drills and studying. Before Beaufort, he was stationed in Groton, CT in a clinic for two years. He says now he wishes he had done FMTB right out of A school since he was still used to the drilling of boot camp and studying. Personally, I was glad he waited so he could be a little older than such a young high school grad. Your son will have his cell phone, computer, etc. He can even have a car if he is bringing one. Be careful what packages you send - they make them open them in front of everyone. My daughter and son-in-law sent him pictures of their newborn son on a CD (80 pictures) and he had to do a push-up for each picture. He thought it was funny, we were furious. There is a nice graduation at the end of FMTB as well.

Comment by txdylansmom on March 27, 2013 at 4:30pm: Tenn Navy Mom- yes, my son will be attending FMTB then orders are to head to Lemoore, CA...

I didn't think there was a Marine base there-- we will see.

Comment by txdylansmom on March 27, 2013 at 2:16pm: Thank you! N4M was such a huge resource/encouragement for me when he was in BC. So, I am hoping you veteran Lejeune Mom's will give me the 411 on what to expect in the two months he will be there. :)

Comment by CRUISES72 on March 27, 2013 at 10:38am: Welcome txdylansmom!

Comment by txdylansmom on March 27, 2013 at 10:35am: Hello- Just received official word that my sailor son will be headed to Camp Lejeune after A School Graduation in May.

On to the next chapter...

Comment by CRUISES72 on March 21, 2013 at 10:30am: Here is a local link (here in NC) with names of Marines killed:

http://www.wral.com/marines-killed-in-training-were-young-lives-ahe...

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on March 20, 2013 at 1:01pm: Tamme, I heard a report that said they were delaying releasing the names for 24 hours to allow the families private time to grieve. This marinecorpstimes story has the family-released names of two of the Marines. A terrible day, so sad...

Comment by Tamme on March 20, 2013 at 8:57am: I have them all in my thoughts and prayers as well. Has anyone seen any names released? My son left CL in December with the Marine team he is with in Afghanistan. He was in Nevada in the fall for training.

Comment by mikes mom on March 19, 2013 at 10:15pm: yes my thoughts and prayers go to all ... my son left CL last May

Comment by Vipergirl on March 19, 2013 at 7:09pm: My condolences to the marines and their families from camp lejeune killed in Nevada today. Thoughts and prayers are with them.