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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 Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on July 18, 2011 at 7:02am: Don't worry about it, this isn't a big affair like PIR. I got my pass without my sailor having called - I didn't know he had to - just provided my license and car registration and why I was there. In the discussion I put above I added maps you can download. Last June I wrote this up: FMTB graduation notes for a gal on here (Charlotte) who was also a little worried, if it helps you, it has more specific directions to Lejeune main gate and to Camp Johnson in there too.

Comment by rockwido(S07Div359) on July 18, 2011 at 6:32am: Thanks....Hope MEsailormom sees this...maybe i will just look for her in the lobby.....how hard was it to get your car pass on base....my son says he can't call until 4 this afternoon...and I will have to go to the base after that...I hate not knowing what to do and not having a plan...I think PIR was a little more organized that this..........just saying

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on July 18, 2011 at 12:35am: The Baymont Inn doesn't have a bar for drinks unfortunately - they have breakfast next to the lobby, but that's all. But you could sure meet up there!

The Baymont manager recommended this seafood restaurant to us and it was really good, plus it's just up the way from the Baymont on Western Blvd (same street as the hotel): Tony's Seafood and Oyster Bar. They have a lounge, too.

Tony's Seafood and Oyster Bar

1345 Western Blvd
Jacksonville, NC 28540

(910) 938-6070

Comment by cali87 on July 18, 2011 at 12:04am: i wanted to go to the graduation i was in corps school with all the guys. they tried to put together money to fly me out but i ended up having to drill this weekend for the reserves and wasn't able to make it. i miss all of those guys. take pix if you can i want to see them and i know a lot of the guys from all of the platoons so any pix will work if anyone does go. i know a few of the guys are coming out to california so maybe i can meet up with them later on, hopefully soon.

Comment by MEsailormom on July 17, 2011 at 7:18pm: Like Christams Eve here in ME. 80, Canoed in the mountian lakes to cut the excitement,,,steamy NC by 3 tomorrow :)

Comment by mikes mom on July 17, 2011 at 2:33pm: Sounds like you two are going to have some fun : ) How sweet

Comment by rockwido(S07Div359) on July 17, 2011 at 2:27pm: I should be there by then.....

Comment by MEsailormom on July 17, 2011 at 1:46pm: OK drinks at the Baymont Inn bar....5:00???

Comment by mikes mom on July 17, 2011 at 11:44am: Isn't it... What a day for them all..

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on July 17, 2011 at 11:32am: This group is so great for helping people connect. So we have three meeting up for this graduation, that's so nice!