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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.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

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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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 Bobbo on October 7, 2013 at 10:58pm: Hi Velvetlace, my son did too, along with his best friend.

Comment by velvetlace on October 7, 2013 at 10:50pm: My corpsman son checked into Camp Pendleton last night. I understand he has started his 8 weeks of FMTB. I am praying that all goes well.

Comment by IDCmom#1 on October 5, 2013 at 9:31pm: Brush fire on Camp Pendleton today. Believe it is over by hospital so quite a distance from FMTB.

Comment by IDCmom#1 on October 2, 2013 at 8:57pm: It is open bay and subject to inspection. They have clean up days and locker inspections. If they fail, they lose privileges. Some guys have been horribly embarrassed about articles they have stored in their locker so they would be wise to not bring contraband to FMTB.

Comment by DramaSoul on October 2, 2013 at 8:16pm: My son was grateful that he brought everything home on leave before he reported to FMTB. He said that the barracks at FMTB were meant to mimic life aboard ship regarding the space and storage. The racks are really narrow.

Comment by velvetlace on September 30, 2013 at 12:05pm: IDC mom

My corpsman son is going to stay with the 1st Marine Division at Camp Pendleton after he successfully completes his FTMB training. His goal is to become a "Doc" down the road and to also go to C School for either Lab tech or Surgical Tech.

Comment by IDCmom#1 on September 29, 2013 at 11:07pm: Velvetlace, I am so glad that you will have an opportunity to spend Thanksgiving with your son. We have been very lucky to not have gone too many years without spending holidays with our son and granddaughter but will this year.

Planning to ask schools command at NAS Pensacola to send a sailor or two to our home for dinner and we will Skype with my son and his family.

When you drive through Camp Pendleton gate, look to the right and wave to my son. He lives about a mile from the gate.

Does your son know where his next duty station is? .

Comment by velvetlace on September 29, 2013 at 10:11pm: IDCmom#1:

SInce I have not had Thanksgiving with my son since 2010, I am hoping and praying that this year will be different since we live in Northern California and we can drive to Oceanside to take my son out to dinner. I hope and pray that it happens. I am also hoping for Christmas with my son since it has been since 2010 since we have had him home for Christmas. I was so depressed last year about him not coming home again, that I did not decorate the house nor did I put up the Christmas tree. My husband and I had a very quiet dinner together. I played and sang at church, so that was my Christmas. My son went into the Navy in March of 2011. My father was 30 years Navy, and he was a Lt. Cmdr. when he retired. I hate the distances and the no holidays together. I think that is why I did not go into the military myself. I am hoping this year is different! :)

Comment by IDCmom#1 on September 29, 2013 at 4:43pm: velvetlace, asked my son what leave policy is for FMTB at Thanksgiving. This is what he had to say:

They are off unless they have duty.

It is a four day weekend for the Marines. (Marines are their instructors so it would be hard to have class if there are no instructors there)

They can travel off base depending on CO decision. Probably 50-150 miles.

Asked my son if he gets four day weekend and he doesn't (he is assigned to a clinic). He has to work on Friday. Boo hiss. Mistreating sailors on shore duty at Pendleton!!! At least, that is a mother's viewpoint and the Navy doesn't really care what I think.

Comment by IDCmom#1 on September 29, 2013 at 3:54pm: My answer was for FMTB students. The base just goes on holiday hours with skeleton crew working like most military bases.