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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 rockwido(S07Div359) on March 22, 2011 at 6:10am: Hi all...my son will graduate Corpsman school this morning and I will not be there to see him....He is flying home tonight so he can drive his car on to Camp Lejeune on Wednesday...we only live about 5 hours from base which is a lot closer that Chicago...wishing all graduates good luck and all proud moms nerves of steel LOL

Comment by MEsailormom on March 22, 2011 at 5:42am: Hi All! I am moving from GL A school to CL site here ahead of my Sailor son. He graduates A school 4/12 and heads to NC on 4/27 after a quick visit home (to Maine where we just got 6 inches of the white fluffy stuff). May you all help me as much as PIR and A school Moms have. Sometimes I think I would die without all the information and encouragement N4M provides.

Comment by Dan's Dad (John) on March 21, 2011 at 10:39pm: Emilie, there are no dumb questions, why do you think they irritate?

Comment by Emilie on March 21, 2011 at 9:31pm: Thanks Tami that is helpful, sometimes my questions seem to irritate so I try to only ask the good ones. :) I suppose they don't always know what is ahead either.

Susan sending good wishes to your son and family.Thanks again for your encouragement.

Comment by Tamijzr07 on March 21, 2011 at 4:17pm: Emilie, my son finished his FMTB training a couple of months ago. He worked in a clinic until he was assigned a division. So when they train he goes with them. When I talk to him I try to ask as many questions as I can so I don't get the info wrong.

Susan, Im so happy to hear you son will be home soon. Will you be able to meet him or spend some time with him when he arrives home? wishing you the best and that the last of the wait goes by quick for you.

Tami

Comment by Emilie on March 20, 2011 at 2:57pm: All I can say is thanks Susan for your kind words. Extenuate the pride and leave the other junk!

Have a great day! The sun is out in Seattle!! Whoot Whoot.

Comment by Emilie on March 19, 2011 at 1:26pm: Yes such a weird combo of pride and fear! So proud that they have chosen to serve their country and learning to pay bills, navigate the world on a large scale so afraid of what might happen to them and how it might effect them emotionally and physically.

I really am glad that I can hear all of you moms and dads cause I hear myself here and don't feel so alone. Thank you!

Mikes mom - Thank you for the welcome - is there a rotation for deployment or is it just whenever? So confusing!

Tamijzr07 - does your son start FMTB training now or has he already finished?

What a ride! Hope to hear from my son this weekend! One day at a time.

Comment by mikes mom on March 19, 2011 at 11:51am: Emilie welcome to CL... My son has been there for 2 1/2 years.. When my son first started all his training I went on you tube and you can see what the training is like for them... I don't know it did help me to understand.. I am now going through the same with my youngest who is in the Army and is training to be a medic... YUK! Us parents can some times get so emotional when it comes to our kids : )

Comment by Tamijzr07 on March 19, 2011 at 2:24am: Hi All! Its been a long while since Ive been on. Susan. I hope all is well with you and your son. I think the last we chatted on N4M he was to be coming home soon.

Emilie, I know how you feel about getting and understanding all the info. This is fairly new to me as well. My son is with the 2nd Marine Div too. Sounds about the same as your son. He will be @ CL a while. But I'm finding out that things could change. I just read Dan's Dads post about 29 palms . My son is there and well...I try not to think about whats next. Best to everyone. :) Take care

Comment by Emilie on March 19, 2011 at 1:20am: Thank you - I suppose it is something like that for my son as well. I try to take it one day at a time but sometimes get anxious to figure out how this will go and what will happen next. I know I know - what am I thinking! Still trying to protect some how. These guys/gals are so independent and smart and all those great things and still our little boys/girls. Hopefully training will last forever!! :)