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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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Graduation Info
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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Navy.com Para Familias

Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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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 Michelle on March 18, 2014 at 8:39am: IDCmon#1 I hope you got my private message . Thank you for all the great info on the uniforms !

Comment by IDCmom#1 on March 13, 2014 at 1:12pm: Michelle, I sent you a private message about the uniforms a while back but wonder if you ever saw it since I went months before I even knew I received private messages.

No, your son does not pay for the uniforms issued to him while at FMTB. But, I think if he loses something, he would be charged for it.

Comment by angelalovesD(Ship 14 Div 274) on March 7, 2014 at 12:38pm: Mom4, I am about 2 1/2 hours north of CP, in Ventura area. Where are you located?

Comment by Michelle on March 7, 2014 at 8:49am: I was hoping somebody could tell me my son will be going to FMTB and I have read that they get Marine cloths when they get there for FMTB . Does anyone know if they take money out of there paycheck again for the stuff they give them for there training ?

Comment by DramaSoul on March 7, 2014 at 1:03am: Everyone told him and his 2 buddies who were also stationed there that it was a terrible place. It's been great for my son. He has learned A LOT and has even become an ACLS instructor. Now he and his 2 buddies (these guys have been together since RTC when they were in the same division) will be heading out to Okinawa with a Marine unit in the fall.

Comment by DramaSoul on March 7, 2014 at 1:00am: My son graduated FMTB at CP on a Friday. He had to report to 29 by midnight on Sunday. We had the weekend at Ward Lodging and I drove him and his buddy to 29 on Sunday afternoon. It was about a 3.5 hour drive.

Comment by Navymomx2 on March 4, 2014 at 3:37pm: Hi Ruth. Thanks for the info. My husband booked a hotel just outside the base for the night before. He will stay until Tuesday, but my son does have to report to 29 Palms right away. He will drive him there after the weekend in L.A. Thanks again!

Comment by Navymomx2 on February 17, 2014 at 12:30pm: Hi gang. I am new to the page and trying to navigate my way around. My son is at FMTB west and will graduate 3/28. I don't know the area at all. Any advice about best places to stay in proximity to graduation appreciated. The Inn of the Corps on base is full. Also, what time does graduation start typically? We may decide to stay near the airport and go up in the morning, depending on time and typical traffic. Getting into San Diego 10:30 p.m. (1:30 a.m. on our body's time). To sleep and then drive to CP or drive to CP and then sleep after landing is the decision we need to make. Thanks for your imput!!!