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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:
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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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 JudyB. on October 19, 2010 at 1:09am
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Carol I think that is so cool, to sense when C will call you...I love being that close with my children too!! There is just something about the mother and son relationship T called me tonight and said "I don't have time to talk long, I just wanted to tell you I love you Mom" and I'm checking in!!
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Isn't that the truth!! I find myself rewording my statements ti T so I don't bring out the attitude or tone in his voice that sound curt. You know what I mean...T knows I am a visual person and when I think of him hurting anywhere on his person I can actually feel his pain...it's the motherly instincts I guess!!
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Sorry the post should have said "Carol"!!
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Pam, I heard his voice tonight and it sounded so hoarse; I asked What happened talked to you last night before muster and you were fine?! He said I have it under control, Mom!! I said sudifed, ibuprofen?! He "You got it" and they are reviewing foot care and body fluids for when they go out in the elements.
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Looks like the steak dinner was a hit tonight after a tough day...Not to much time for personal use and to study. T wishes he hadn't brought 2 sea bags with moving the bunks and all.
Carol, T caught that bug going around, yuck!!
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Comment by Pam on October 18, 2010 at 10:23pm
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Yikes -feeling sorry for his bunkmate!! LOL!!
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And they say the way to a man's heart is through their stomach. LOL - he must have talked about the food three times!
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Just got off the phone with a very tired Corpsman! Just like Carol's son - up at 3 - well he said someone actually set their alarm for 2:30 a.m. in anticipation and then slept through it and woke everyone else up. My son prayed for the kid because he truly wanted to do him harm. Oh boy.....LOL. Very grueling day for them. But he laughed and said he was tired as heck, but he survived!! He also had another Corpsman who graduated FMTB last March (and is attached to a Unit) stop him and gave him a few pointers. Knife (to open MRE), flashlight, THICK socks and hard candy. So J immediately went and bought those. He also said the Food rocks!! Steak last night for dinner (and it wasn't a small one!!).. Oh, and the best of all he said was soft serve ice cream!! Low fat kind but their burning so many calories he said he can pretty much eat anything...
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Comment by Becky (J's Mom) on October 18, 2010 at 9:32pm
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thanks! I feel better knowing I'm not the only one who doesn't understand all the lingo. I have texted J a few times, but I told him Sat. during his call not to worry about answering until the weekends. I tend to forget questions, etc, if I don't ask right away, so I drop him a note. He'd said he'd send me his address, he has it, but so far haven't gotten it. Probably this weekend. I hope all the corpsmen get some rest tonight- they're probably exhausted!
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Trust me, I felt stupid the other day when I had to ask if it's Corpsman or Corpsmen!! I literally told myself Duh!! So, please ask any question. You know what they say about that! There's no question that's.....etc. My son is also in Platoon 2.
In our talk last night J said that the base is so huge that he really wishes he had his car but since he's only there 8 weeks, he'll survive. A cab is $30 from where he's at to the "main" side of base. That is steep so I hope they can go in together on a ride. He said there is also a shuttle, but you have to switch buses almost three times to get to main side. He also said they have test on Wed. Getting the four different phases of liberty is based of your score. He started out in Phase II and has to go back to earning the privilege to wear civilian attire. I think it's probably a good thing he went right from A School to FMTB!! If he'd have been out in the fleet and then had to go back to liberty phases, he'd have probably been going crazy!
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