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Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
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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 das2 on October 26, 2011 at 7:33pm
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For what it’s worth, my son texted me just after they classed up and said “Graduation would be Dec 15 and they would be leaving for their next duty station that day. If they needed housing it would be provided for them until they could leave. Any liberty would need to be requested at their next duty station.” I guess we will have to wait and see, mean time I booked fights around this info
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Comment by IDCmom#1 on October 26, 2011 at 7:28pm
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Moms whose sailors have already graduated, is FMTB graduation the same as A and C school? After graduation, they clear out and head to next assignment or leave?
Yes, graduation is on Thursday.
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Comment by Rena'(Dylan's mom) on October 26, 2011 at 6:23pm
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Docsmom, he is suppose to stay at CP until Dec 2014. So this means graduation is on a Thursday? Do u happen to know if they will get liberty after graduation or is back to business as usual on Friday? U have been so helpful thanks SOOO much....
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Rena, I think that some people typing orders don't have the complete course information so just put what they think would be close. Where will he be going after the course? Is it somewhere so near that he could be reporting on the 16th?
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Thanks docsmom, I woulda been heartbroken if I showed up on the 16th and had already missed it. I will have to tell Dylan to slow down and read his orders again... He is doing SOMETHING on the 16th.....lol
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Rena, the 15th is definitely the date. S3 is the Plans/Operations/Academics section of the school. The Chief I spoke to was very adamant about the date.
I grew up a military brat and also worked for the military so I know how you feel about the confusion. That's why I figured, after reading all the different dates, that I should get some clarification.
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I really do believe Navy life might kill me from confusion and I'm not even in the Navy. Now I REALLY don't know when to be in SD. Dylan said his orders say the 16th and originally he had told me graduation would be the 14th and now possibly the 15th... my brain is spinning...
Stevensmom, I sympathize with the news of the 2nd sons news of leaving. My youngest(13) told me I needed to help him decide whether he should be a marine infantry soldier, a bomb difuser or a tank machine gunner... I told him I needed 3 new choices... lol...he however has said since he was 4 that he wanted to be a Marine so I have had plenty of time to prepare with this one...
RuthVH, so awesome that you get to spend a little quality time with your cub, hopefully he will be on a very short deployment and be back before you know it... I can't help but be a dreamer....lol
So I guess I don't need to pack a bathing suit for a dip in the ocean in December???
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For those of us who have sailors in the current FMST (FMTB) course at Camp Pendleton, I just called the S3 at the school and spoke to a Chief who told me that graduation is Dec 15, 2011.
When I told him that there seemed to be a lot of confusion, he said he would be sure the word got out to the students.
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zStratMom, thanks so much for the advice. I've been in the south so long that I just don't tolerate cold weather well. Yep, I am also a weather wuss!
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Comment by zStratMom on October 24, 2011 at 7:03am
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ocsmom - San Diego / Oceanside weather in winter is mild. Could have a chilly early morning (50-60 degrees) with a marine layer; bring a light coat. Days should warm to 70s, depending on what ever weather pattern we're experiencing. A hoodie / sweat jacket will often do the trick for transitioning throughout the day. Or, something on the level of a light London Fog raincoat. Use your Florida weather as a general guide. Nothing. I repeat: Nothing like going to northern realms. Also, check in with an online 5-10 day weather forecast before you pack.
Now - I will admit to keeping those stretch knit gloves in my coat pocket at all times and I use the seat warmer in the car (year round)--but I am an avowed weather wuss and absolutely, positively loathe being cold. ;-)
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