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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 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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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 Pam on October 19, 2010 at 5:14pm: Chief - yes, my younger son was in a horrific car accident two years ago. Lots of healing done in that time, mentally and physically, but he's fine now. I just mentioned it because of the "feelings" that Mom's can get.

Comment by Pam on October 19, 2010 at 11:48am: Those are great rates Judy and Jacqueline. Leave it to Delta to be the most expensive, but it is a direct flight. We'll soon be getting Southwest here in Atlanta since they are taking over Airtran. Delta and Airtran have had a monopoly in Atlanta.

Comment by JudyB. on October 19, 2010 at 11:39am: Pam, I went to Booking Buddy and found these prices: One travel #372.00, US airways $398.00, Expedia $409.00 All prices are with taxes...hope this helps!!

Comment by Pam on October 19, 2010 at 11:36am: Judy - my son was fine. A night in the hospital and three weeks of ultrasounds on his spleen, but he was very lucky. I was full of questions for J last night. I think we must have talked for an hour. There is a service for discount tickets but I can't remember the name. He told me about it a couple months ago. I'll mention it when I talk to him again.

Comment by OKSoonermom2010 on October 19, 2010 at 11:18am: $30 for a cab? That's expensive, my son is also wishing he had a car, but i told him to wait until he's finished with fmtb. My son graduated A school August 12.

Comment by JudyB. on October 19, 2010 at 11:15am: Pam, that is Crazy the amount of money the airlines want for a round trip ticket. A thought... can J get a Military discount off the ticket?!

Comment by Pam on October 19, 2010 at 10:58am: J said they had them scattered throughout the barracks and they stayed in the same area, just all in one place if that makes sense. Yes, just pulled Delta and San Deigo to Atlanta is almost $550. It's so hard to purchase in advance though because you don't know if they'll have duty!

Comment by JudyB. on October 19, 2010 at 10:57am: Good Morning, The question about Thanksgiving, looks like the corpsman will get a 4 day weekend, that's if your corpsman doesn't have watch.

Pam, That's crazy that you knew about your sons accident, I hope he wasn't hurt!!
Chief, When I asked T what they had in store for the rest of the week, he said the same as bc but worse...hardly no sleep, lots of PT standing around in attention for over an hour then more lecture on taking care of them selves.

Comment by Pam on October 19, 2010 at 10:16am: Does anyone know how Thanksgiving is going to work? I'd love to buy J a plane ticket home and that really needs to be done now. I wonder if they'll shut the FMTBclass/base down.

Comment by Pam on October 19, 2010 at 10:14am: They don't call it mother's intuition for nothing!! It's a strange thing but it does happen! I knew about my younger son's car accident before we even knew there was an accident. J did say that they moved around bunks. His platoon is all together now. Whenever I start giving J advice I either put it in question form or I start with "I'm not in your business, but...." LOL - he's still hard headed! He just found out that a friend of his from High School just joined the Navy. This friend is taking the ASVAB (? I can't remember how to spell that) today. They have reconnected which is kind of nice and J has been handing out the advice to him.