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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
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OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
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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.
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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
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.
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FMTB-West Student Info and What to Bring
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Comment by mom22militarymen on May 13, 2011 at 1:19pm
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Thanks for the welcome. He has been at a Naval Operational Support center, doing medical records type work and working with reservists during drills.
And I did indeed get some useful information from this feed. Since there is nothing on the FMTB West website about graduation, I was able to know where to book a room at least! So thanks to all of those posters.
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I am new to the board. My son has been in 3 years, serving in San Diego, but is right now in the FMTB. He is due to graduate on June 24, 2011. Anyone else out there have someone graduating that day?
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Comment by Joan F on May 12, 2011 at 11:11pm
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I have sympathy for you at 29 Palms, it is a long way out there. We stayed at a place in Indio when we picked up my daughter from college and met her boyfriend/fiance now stationed @ CP. We went to disneyland and seems everything was like a 2 hour drive.
Good luck to all in their new adventures. My son is going crazy in Nevada as there is nothing to do where he is also. It is kind of middle of nowhere also and like an hour out of Reno so not much to do until the weekend. He is hoping to get his jeep lifted so he can at least play in the sand dunes.
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Comment by MrsS on May 11, 2011 at 3:38pm
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JCL and Linda, I love 29 Palms. It is so quiet and beautiful. It's only about an hour from Palm Springs, which is a nice resort kinda town. Kinda like CP with no beach. It's all about positive thinking!
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Comment by Cindymommababy on May 11, 2011 at 1:48pm
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All will be fine. Just get a another clock to look at for Okinawa time.
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Comment by jesspoo05 on May 11, 2011 at 12:44pm
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good luck to all of thoes going out into the field!! i am sure they are nervous but looking back at it my bf loved it!!
prayers go out the all those that are leaving the country and starting their new chapters!!!
linda- what ward is your son working in? my bf is stationed there and working in orthopedics.
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Comment by Pam on May 11, 2011 at 9:51am
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Hang in there JLC. My husband wouldn't even go to the airport with us when Jamie left for Italy. Very exciting for them and yet very hard for us! Good luck to him.
Good luck to the FMTB class! Hopefully this is only the three day tour out in the field! Preparation for the longer one.
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Comment by Mary Jo-Mom of a Corpsman on May 11, 2011 at 2:35am
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Prayers for all our boys at FMTB...they are heading into the field for a few days. My son called to tell me that I won't be hearing from him until this weekend. He sounded excited and nervous.
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If it helps, my Corpsman deploys to Japan in October, that's as far ahead as I can think. The word at this point is that troops will start to pull out of Afghanistan in July this year.
Right now, he's in 29 Palms for a couple a weeks. He's been on "field-ops" for up to a week at a time. He's safe, but still not at home.
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Mariann - no FMT just means you go where the Marine's go. And they have bases everywhere! The odds of a deployment to Afghan are pretty high, but you'll be stationed at one of the bases around the globe. Hope that help.
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