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Navy For Moms

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

Events

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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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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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 Pendleton Corpsmen Moms

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Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton is home to Field Medical Training Battalion-West and Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton.

Group Admin: Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom

Location: San Diego County
Members: 187
Latest Activity: Nov 15, 2022

Camp Pendleton, FMTB-West, and NHCP

Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton is home to Field Medical Training Battalion-West and Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton.

Base access information with video

Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton is a beautiful new 42-bed teaching facility near the main gate that provides outpatient and inpatient care for active-duty service members, their family members, retirees and other eligible beneficiaries. Additional care is available at Naval Medical Center San Diego.

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Comment by ED32 on January 4, 2014 at 7:24pm: Does anyone know on where to find the procedures for having a vehicle transported to CP?

Comment by Debi on December 21, 2013 at 10:56am: Ruth VH thanks for the info on the FMTB. My son is at CP waiting for the next FMTB to class up at the end of January. We're from Wisconsin so he's out there in shorts and tshirts too while everyone else is bundled up! He did that in San Antonio too..lol These warm weather people have no idea what cold is!

Can anyone tell me about the mail system at CP? I know that at FSH we had to send things UPS inorder for them to get the packages in a timely fashion. Is USPS better at Camp P? or should we stick with UPS?

Comment by Bobbo on December 10, 2013 at 5:05pm: Does anyone know when graduation ceremony is over for FMTB. Is it an hour so finished by 11 am ? We have family friends, several of which are in corporate sales and trying to see clients in north SD County.

The troubles with living in the area ! (I will endure it gladly)

Thanks much in advanve.

Comment by DramaSoul on November 21, 2013 at 12:01am: I second and third the socks and the moleskin as well as taking care of them right away. The Stryker socks from Fox Mills were the best, according to my son.

Comment by DramaSoul on November 20, 2013 at 11:59am: My son did FMTB from July through September so it was pretty hot but he had just come from FSH where it was hot AND humid. He had the opportunity to choose between CL and CP and was very glad he chose CP! He is now stationed at 29 Palms where it is in triple digits from March through September/October with a 3300 ft elevation. Kinda had a problem when he came home in June and it was only 72 (which is flip-flop and shorts weather in Oregon). He needed a sweatshirt!

Comment by IDCmom#1 on November 7, 2013 at 11:17pm: My daughter-in-law and granddaughters were in the water at the Del Mar beach (right by FMTB) at Camp Pendleton. Crazy!

Comment by DramaSoul on November 7, 2013 at 10:22pm: There will be much less humidity at Camp Pendleton, that's for sure! We are a little partial to the West Coast though.

Comment by Bobbo on November 7, 2013 at 2:28pm: Debi, Camp Pendleton has much better weather. It will be warmer.

Comment by Debi on November 7, 2013 at 2:11pm: Hello all! I just received news from my Sailor that he will be headed to Camp Pendelton for his FMTB instead of North Carolina. Is there anything that I should be aware of besides what is on the offical websites? We're headed to FSH for his A school graduation beginning of December and he reports to Pendelton two days later to work in the hospital until he classes up.

Any info from the "veteran" moms would be greatly appreciated!

Comment by IDCmom#1 on October 26, 2013 at 2:44pm: The money raised through the sale of souvenirs and DVDs is used to fund the cookout for the students at the end of FMTB and also pays for going away presents like plaques and shadow boxes for the FMTB staff.

I did not think that the DVD is a waste of $$ at all. It is so much fun to watch all the stuff our sailors went through and they enjoy pointing out where they are in the DVD. When they are all gas masked, it is really difficult to know who is who. We still enjoy looking back at it and continue to be amazed that our "senior sailor" made it through with all those young kids. He did not enjoy the physical experience of FMTB because he was not in shape coming out of a year long C school but I think he enjoyed the camaraderie. He was definitely in great shape physically when he finished.