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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 DramaSoul on July 20, 2012 at 10:20pm
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Does anyone have the link to what they are doing in FMTB?
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Hi All. Just heard from my Sailor. He arrived on the 17th and has been doing hospital duty. He is scheduled to move into "Devil Doc Hall" next week. He was home for 14 day leave which went by VERY FAST.
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Comment by kimberlydale (corpsmanmom) on July 5, 2012 at 11:22pm
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Kathy - congrats to your Sailor on graduation!! Also thanks for all the good info you share. I read most all posts from my phone but I don't like to respond from it ...so I just do a lot of creeping ;):)LOL
Dramasoul - congrats on your Sailors corpsman grad and so glad to hear your trip was good. I agree with you about it being a worthwhile grad to attend. I hope you enjoy your time with him while he is home, it goes by so fast!! Sounds like he will be heading to work at the hospital where my son is? I am sure they will meet up. I did tell my son about meeting you - and told him your son would be there around the 16th - he wanted to know his name.
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Kathy...my son will be going to 29 Palms after FMTB! And he has been doing P90X while home so far. Yeah he is really aware of not slacking off on PT. As soon as he got the FMTB orders he started doing two-a-days while at Ft. Sam. It is one of the reasons when he was asked to sing in the choir for graduation, he bowed out. He couldn't do everything he needed to do to complete the course work and add the extra PT as well as their duties and sing/rehearse with the choir. He said there weren't quite enough hours in the day.
I will definitely make sure he orders the DVD. We have the one from PIR which is just the ceremony and we have The Keel. Again congrats on your son's accomplishment!!!
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Thanks, Kathy! Loved the pics you posted. Where is your Devil Doc off to now?
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Thanks kimberleydale for posting this info. I wondered how your trip went. I probably won't get down there until graduation. Just have to play it by ear. My son reports on the 17th and will be at the hospital there until class starts. So I have to ask...why are they called Devil Docs?
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Hi to All - we just got back from visiting our son at CP. This is the first year the "Navy" guys were asked to be a part of the 4th of July parade in downtown Oceanside. It was a gorgeous day and they looked amazing in there dress Whites marching in formation!!!!
We stayed for 4 nights in Carlsbad. If I could give any advice I would recommend this cute , quaint little beach town it was fantastic. A lot of little shops and eatery's - with a great view of the beach. Also beach combing/walking is user friendly:)
We were able to tour the base and see where our son is living and working for now-(until FMTB starts) Then he took us to see where they move them too for this training. "Devil Doc" Hall. It is down closer to the beach (Del Mar) on base. What a great beach!!!! Went shopping in the commissary with him and then to yogurtland for a treat. The base is quite LARGE.....I just thought I would throw all this out there so you can kind of get a picture of what things are like there for your sailors.
Does anyone know anything about ricon(sp) corpsman and if so can you fill me in??
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Comment by sweetpea on July 2, 2012 at 8:46pm
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Son and daughter at graduation 6/29/12. Happy times.
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Thank you for posting this Kathy. I just went to the Corpsman graduation at SA for my newly minted HA. He is really looking forward to this and has been training in anticipation of it. I was tearing up watching the Shield ceremony. Congrats and Bravo Zulu to your new 'Devil Doc'.
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Comment by vettespace on July 1, 2012 at 9:34am
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Kathy, Congratulations to the "Devil Doc"!!!!
Those pictures brought back fond memories of my "doc's" graduation at CP two years ago!
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