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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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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:

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

Events

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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

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

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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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Latest Activity

SpiritWolfDi liked B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet)'s discussion Beginning October 5, 2023 Recruit graduations will be Thursday rather than Friday

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Navy Speak

Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)

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Navy.com Para Familias

Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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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 mikes mom on January 14, 2010 at 12:43pm: Susan - Just wait cuz there will be a mom that will be in need and your going to be right there for her ... I belong to a few groups within this site ...this is wonderful to be involved with so many moms and dads ...
Have you ever been to CL ???

Comment by mikes mom on January 13, 2010 at 7:07pm: Susan - I have this site and I pray a lot !!! I also cry a lot :)
I try and keep strong for him and I never allow him to know I'm scared just like him with me...

Comment by mikes mom on January 13, 2010 at 2:04pm: I have been watching the new could it be Haiti ??? Have no idea just a guess...

Comment by mikes mom on January 13, 2010 at 12:25pm: Susan - My son is in Afghanistan and I hope he will be home this summer .... He will never tell me the truth he always says I'm doing fine mom. He does tell his older sister though.Her husband is a Doctor and has had many tour to Afghanistan and Iraq. He says hes tried and wants to come home. Home to my son is Camp Lejeune . All I can say is that it was 15 months from the time he finished BC to his deployment. Mike was an EMT before joining the Navy though I don't know if that has anything to with anything.....lol
My heart just won't be the same until my son comes home...

Comment by mikes mom on January 12, 2010 at 9:18pm: Susan - My son is a Corpsman on the green side too ! I have been on the " Corpsman Mom's and Dads" site as well.. Really I could just say ditto to Andrea my son did EMT before joining the Navy. My son deployed out last Oct. and I know the Marine's are taking good care of their Doc ...

I am new to this site and really happy to have found it since my daughters husband is stationed there too.

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on December 19, 2009 at 10:11pm: Thanks Melody! How did your son like the experience of FTMB? Looks challenging. My son was home for Thanksgiving, which was wonderful - wish I could have kept him around for Christmas!
I too send my prayers with those deploying; thank you for adding the Marine's quotation about God's grace...so comforting. Bless every single one.

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on December 17, 2009 at 6:39pm: Hi all - I'm Marcy in Scottsdale, AZ. My son is heading to CL/FTMB in March following two yrs at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Va. So glad to find you, I'll be having questions soon!

Comment by TexasDocMom on May 13, 2009 at 10:00am: PT...my long lanky son now has thighs as big around as Texas....they run and run...with a couple of hundred pounds thrown over their shoulders...daily. When he was on the MEU onboard ship, they ran up and down stair wells for long periods of time to keep those legs built up.

I told him he has to work out the rest of his life or he'll look like a pear when he's old.

Comment by TexasDocMom on May 5, 2009 at 2:38pm: No, he bought here in Austin...but check online at the dealer's web sites...and go talk to the dealers in your area...maybe they can give you some advice. Matt bought a little Mazda 3, he loves it.

Also, check out the dealerships in surrounding towns...or those a little further out from CL.

Comment by TexasDocMom on May 5, 2009 at 12:59pm: Andrea, my son bought a new car early on, his goal is to have it paid off as soon as possible. With deployment, he doubled the payments up, plus it got very few miles on it (even with me driving during the gas crunch instead of my van!) and he's on the way to his goal. He loves that little Mazda...and he loves having dependable transportation to get him around.