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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 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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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 TexasDocMom on February 11, 2009 at 8:36am: My son is sitting by the gas chamber every day, just says his face is on fire and creams/lotions make it worse not better.

Food poisoning usually takes a few hours, maybe there's a stomach virus going around. Hope he feels better.

Comment by TexasDocMom on February 10, 2009 at 11:23pm: ginger! I knew it was familar...I'm from Corpus, I've driven that road a thousand times!! I generally go to Kenedy/Karnes city to that Mexican restaurant by the donut place (that's how it's described in my family) that has the best chalupas in the whole wide world! real ones! with the cheese in the right place and melted the right way...

Yes Matt has that DIC card, but then as Field corpsmen they take all types of driving things, they drive everything with wheels.

Comment by TexasDocMom on February 10, 2009 at 10:56am: I don't know about anyone else, but the state of Texas does not require the amount of liablity insurance that NC does, so be aware of that. Matt found his best rates with Geico, they have a good military discount. Since the loan on his car is in his name, we had to carry him on our Allstate the whole time he was gone in the sand. That stinks!

Comment by TexasDocMom on February 8, 2009 at 6:18pm: Ginger...Poth, TX...on 21? on the way to College Station?

I'm in Austin. Yes it's a long, long drive. If your son is gong to be deployed, especially to the sand, he will know ahead of time, and have one "long" leave (not all that long if you ask me) to come home, take care of business, etc. Make sure he brings you the information you need, there is a "single" deployment guide for the single guys to follow. Make sure he knows to put you on every list for parent coordinators to have.

Comment by TexasDocMom on February 8, 2009 at 2:10am: How far do you live from NC, ginger? how much trouble will it be to get the vehicle to him? plus having to get back home if he's put in a unit after FMTB school that deploys relatively quickly...if you live close, I'd get it to him. If you live far away, I'd wait to see what happens after school is done.

and welcome!

Comment by TexasDocMom on February 2, 2009 at 8:02pm: Kelly, he'll start doing what Matt does...Matt walks outside now everytime he goes to use his cell, just habit I guess...it's where it works. I know at GL he had to stop walking to talk on the phone, I don't know if that's so rigid as real Docs or not...

Comment by TexasDocMom on February 2, 2009 at 8:00pm: Corpsmen are in a no man's land...part Navy part Marine all boss....

Comment by TexasDocMom on February 2, 2009 at 7:18pm: Cher, my son liked being deployed as well...but we were blessed with them not seeing the action that other Marine battalions did, at least not as intense. When Matt was in training there he had a buddy who was from the area, that helped alot! but he hates it when he is without his car, I think he likes the extra storage....as well as being able to go other places besides Jacksonville.

I asked him about restaurants and he says "mom!" ( you know the tone..the Marine one...) "MOM! you have to make reservations at Olive Garden! that's the status of places to eat there!"...He did hate the 22 hour drive back to Lajuene form Texas this last time, tho...but he got a couple of books on tapes and he was okay.

Comment by TexasDocMom on February 2, 2009 at 12:32am: Hopefully, they will stay stateside for a while...they did when Matt joined them, he was in the US for several months before his first deployment with an MEU, then back to the US for a while before Iraq. He was transferred into them right after they returned from Iraq. Thank goodness my son's last eligible date for deployment has passed as of last week, since he's leaving the military in August!! They haven't moved him out of the 2/2 either, so maybe they are sticking around for a while. Who knows?

He liked Lajuene better after he got his car, before that he was really lucky to have a buddy with family nearby....holidays and weekends were spent there.

Comment by TexasDocMom on February 1, 2009 at 10:17pm: Yes, Matt said the weather was good at Lajuene today, wish he'd been here to rake some leaves...it was 77 degrees here in central Texas!

Congrats to your son, Kelly...he's on a whole new journey now. Best wishes!