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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

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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 IDCmom#1 on June 16, 2012 at 11:01pm: Five graduates are going to Edson Range on Camp Pendleton. Any of your young men going there?

Comment by jacketfan24 (corpsman mom) on June 16, 2012 at 8:45am: Kathy, no we are not able to come to the graduation. I am absolutely sick about it, but we just can't afford it. He's heading to Okinawa next, so I don't know when I'll get to see him again. At least he was able to come home between A school and FMTB school. Hope you have a great trip there!

Comment by medic mom on June 10, 2012 at 7:23pm: Love the picture Kathyproudcorpsmanmom. My son is also at CP though he is done with training and is awaiting his first deployment. He loves being out there. Thanx for sharing.

Comment by proudmom (311)(HS Corpsman mom) on June 9, 2012 at 2:33pm: My son is graduating that day too.

Comment by jacketfan24 (corpsman mom) on June 9, 2012 at 7:28am: Proudmom and KathyCorpmanmom...my son will graduate that date also.

Comment by IDCmom#1 on June 4, 2012 at 10:33pm: For family new to the Navy, you might not know about the Sailor/Marine American Council on Education Registry Transcript (SMART) that shows recommended college credit for military courses your sailor has taken. Most colleges accept the ACE recommendation for college course equivalency.

I personally find the ACE Guide NON user friendly so recommend that you ask your sailor to download a copy of his SMART to tell you what equivalent number of college credit he/she has already earned.

I know there is a glitch in the system for corpsmen who have attended corpsman school in San Antonio and their credit recommendations may not show on their SMART. The Navy and ACE are working on getting this corrected.

Amac23, the answer to your question about FMTB credit is that ACE recommends 5 semester hours for Basic Emergency Care and 5 semester hours for Advanced Emergency Care.

Comment by IDCmom#1 on June 3, 2012 at 11:05pm: My son will at the graduation this month, picking up some of the graduates who will be assigned to his clinic. He said he would be glad to speak to anyone with questions about what is ahead for their graduate. He is an HM1 Independent Duty Corpsman and will be with another HM who has considerable experience with "green side." Message me and I will give you his phone number.

Comment by IDCmom#1 on June 3, 2012 at 10:56pm: Amac23, I have looked at the ACE Guide to see if there is any academic credit recommendation for FMTB but can't find any. My son is going to check his transcript to see if any credit was awarded. If anything is awarded, he doesn't think it would be significant.

Comment by Amac23 on June 3, 2012 at 6:06pm: Hi everyone,

I don't know if there is an answer to this question but I am still struggling with getting accurate information on the training at camp pendleton. My SN, who is a reservist wants to pursue physical therapy. We know he probably wont get C school for it, being a reservist and all, but he wants to move into a PTA program.

They want to see what 'classes' he will be taking there and evaluate them for transfer, but heck if I can get any concrete information on how to find this info out!