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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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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
Information
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.
Discussion Forum
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FMTB-West Student Info and What to Bring
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Comment by ddsweety on May 14, 2012 at 10:06am
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Thank you Corpsmanwifeschu and docsmom! My husband has orders to be stationed on camp pendleton on hold for over a month. Then he has orders for that school for 8 weeks. Then he has orders there for something else (i forgot what :( ) So in the end he is going to be at Camp Pendleton from the begining of June 2012 to the end of Dec 2012. Right now we live in San Diego and want to get out of the appartment we are living in. Since we figured it was only a 45 min drive up to Camp Pendleton, and we want to leave the place we are in anyway, we'd just move up there for that time. Idk, it might be a bad idea but he's been in School in TX for four months, and after Camp Pendleton is FL for 4 months and I'm just tired of being far from him. Plus we have the money to move.
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Comment by IDCmom#1 on May 14, 2012 at 1:18am
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Just curious, why is he looking for a place to live when school is only 8 weeks long? Where is he going after school?
If he is assigned to the hospital, waiting to class up, wouldn't it be wiser to live in the barracks? If he found a place off base, wouldn't he have to pay security, sign a lease, etc?
corpsmanswifeschu is exactly right with Oceanside being the closest community to Del Mar area where FMTB is located on Camp Pendleton.
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Comment by kimberlydale (corpsmanmom) on May 14, 2012 at 12:58am
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KathyproudCorpsmanmom....THank you for the info - and good luck to your Son as well !!! I am SOOOO enjoying having "my boy" home ..... its going WAY too fast ..... Mothers Day was so awesome - I had both my daughter and my son home !!! That is a VERY rare occasion these days....so grateful for this day !!! Love and prayers to all you loving Navy families ....I am so thankful for this N4M's site !!!!
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Comment by corpsmanwifeschu on May 14, 2012 at 12:10am
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It's located right inside the south end of the base at the I 5 gate. Oceanside would be a good bet.
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Does anyone happen to know in what location the FMTB school is on Camp Pendleton? My husband is looking for a place to live but we heard the base is rather large that we'd have to know where his school is before he can start looking for a place. Thanks!
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So just wondering what does "taping" mean?? My sailor just graduated corpsman school and is home on leave for one week. Then he heads down to CP ... I have not been on this site much so I may be asking some silly questions, forgive me!!! What can we expect for the next few months??? Where do they stay/live? Can they have a car? Once they start FMTB can they still have their phone ? Any info you think is enlightening would be great!!!!
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Loved ones, just made a quick circuit of the brand new enormous MCX on Camp Pendleton. Since it was a weekend, most service members were in civilian clothes. There did seem to a large number of fellows in Navy digi's. One works with my son and just started FMTB so he realized these were the new FMTB classmates. Since they were still in their Navy uniform, they still looked fairly well rested and saw no injuries. I know they will be dragging next week and probably not roaming the store.
Am typing this on my phone so forgive typos and strange grammar!
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Comment by proud2baNavyMom on May 5, 2012 at 9:49am
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docsmom thank you so much for answering my question. I know he is doing a lot of pt bc he has already told me that. I know he will pass next round, he was only over by a little but enough that he did not make it. He is a very determined person so I know if this is God's will he will make it. You have been sucha great help explaining.
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proud2baNavyMom, just asked my son your question. Good news, your son WILLwill pass his next taping because he is going to be doing PT like crazy the next two months. Bad news, he will be doing a lot of crappy jobs while waiting to class up again.
My son said that if he is a new corpsman, then he is correct that he could lose his rating. If he is not a fleet returnee (hasn't had another command other than boot camp and A school), he would lose his rate. If he is a fleet returnee, he would retain his rate but would probably be barred from reenlistment because he is not world wide assignable. You have to pass FMTB to be world wide assignable.
I have been a Navy mom for over eight years and have not learned so much about the Navy as I have in the past year as a member of NavyforMoms. Thank you, loved ones, for all the knowledge you have given me. Also, thanks to my son for finally answering my questions that he used to half answer like so many of the young guys do.
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If at all possible I need some info from a seasoned mom. My sailor was supposed to start FMTB training this week and did not pass tape. Arrrggggg, he has worked so hard and according to what he said (may not have told me everything) he was under tape when checked 4 different times then when fmtb trainer taped him he was over. Now he is kicked back to next class and if he does not pass he says they will strip him of rating and send him back to start all over and that he will even loose corpman status. does this sound correct or is my wonderful sailor leaving something out. I am very worried and concerned. Any help would be greatly appriciated.
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