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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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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 Pendleton Corpsmen Moms
Information
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.
Discussion Forum
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FMTB-West Student Info and What to Bring
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Comment by JudyB. on November 19, 2010 at 8:27pm
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after and before
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This is the way my house was before the transformation and after a new paint job
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Comment by Pam on November 19, 2010 at 10:33am
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Welcome Joan! Our boys have been out on a five day training mission this week, so all of us should be hearing from our kids tonight sometime. I'd say the testing is tough, but different from A School.
TGIF is right Chief! Never met a Friday I didn't like!
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Hi Joan, Welcome to you and your Corpsman. It's like Carol mentioned but the mountain is more like a gradual climb, but they still have to climb it with All that weight. Just know that the written test are mostly of what they have learned out in the field or in power point instructed classes and PT, but the thing is they have to pass the written test with a minimum of 80%. This is why our corpsman are treated like "Gold", when they are eventually assigned a platoon. Just tell your corpsman not to fret/stress until he is in it, save your energy for the real thing...anyway that's what my Corpsman said when I asked him how will he get through it!!
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Comment by Joan F on November 19, 2010 at 12:33am
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Thanks Carol, I told my son I don't think the tests would be easier but he said that is what is instructors said. Wow can't believe that after going through bootcamp they are going to have to do it again only with the Marines Ouch!
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Hi ladies, I will be in your boat soon as my son will be doing his FMTB in Jan. He is doing his clinicals right now and set to graduate first week of Dec. I talked with him tonight and he wanted me to ask a few questions for him. He was wanting to know if the tests are harder or easier than A school ( I told him to think harder) and then he wanted to know if the Corpsman go up the Crucible with the Marines. He has heard of them having to carry another Marine with all his gear on up a sand mountain while carrying all his own gear. I don't know if your Corpsman can answer these questions for me, but will pass on any info you can give me. Thank you and hope you all hear from your guys soon! Have a great day.
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I can't wait to hear from J!! It's been a long day, had the 4 year olds Thanksgiving program at preschool and then I had to work until 8:00 p.m. Time for bed. Been on edge a little today wondering what my kid is doing.
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Chief, Don't fret about the dates he will understand I'm sure he will just be happy that he was thought about during his hard days out in the field!! It is so very hard Not being able to to talk to my very good friend...My handsome Corpsman!!
OH, check your messages, there is a message from me!!
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Good Morning Chief, Yes just today and tomorrow and my cub can look at the text that I've sent him this week. I just sent him text each day this week so when he get back he can know how much he was thought about during the week! Oh, I'm telling we had to wash his camies 2more times after he did at the car wash; I used a 5 gal bucket and put tide with stain remover(little squares w/orange stain remover) and finally T allowed me to dry them. He told me that the dirt dries so stiff and like sandpaper rubbing against his skin, that it actually rubbed his skin off in patches!! Well I sure hope that he doesnt come back from the field with flea bites all over him. LOL
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True Ruth - but better to be prepared just in case. My husband is prior service so we're used to the everything can change in an instant!
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