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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

Events

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

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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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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Struggle, Survival and Success

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Struggle, Survival and Success

Many of our lives have be touched by some form of cancer, whether ourselves, our spouses, our parents, brothers sisters or friends. Meet here to read stories of encourgement and hope!

Members: 78
Latest Activity: Feb 10, 2013



Let me know the types of support pictures you all want here I will do my best to add them all!

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Comment by MissMySailor on April 4, 2010 at 8:06pm
Hello,
Michaels mom Karen Please please demand that a new pap and mamogram be done at no charge due their mistake. At no charge because insurance will not cover it twice in 1 yr. I skipped 2 mamo's and ended up with stage 1 breast cancer. Lucky to be stage 1 but the surgery was easy the chemo is so hard my bones hurt fo 2 weeks I feel ok for 1 then I go in for another thankful I only have 2 more to go. The big kicker I have NO family history of cancer so skipping 2 I thought was no biggie.
I wish you well let us know how it works out for you. Paula
Comment by MeLinda on January 3, 2010 at 9:19pm
Good Morning and Happy New Year to all

Just a quick note to anyone that is interested in participating the 2010 DFW 3-Day as a CREW Member, you need to register ASAP. The last numbers that were given was the the Crew was almost full. I fully expect Crew to be closed except for medical very early in 2010. I am not for sure about the other cities, just DFW.

To join the NavyForMoms.com - DFW team click here
http://www.the3day.org/site/TR?team_id=113560&fr_id=1465&pg...

If you have any questions, please let me know - my 3-Day email is Thoes3Day@verizon.net
Comment by Kelleypen on September 28, 2009 at 2:04pm
Thyroid Cancer survivor here. Here's a link to some of the thyca symbols. http://www.thyca.org/Spirit_Items.htm I was diagnosed July 2002, had a radioactive ablation in August 2003, and have been negative every year since.
Comment by Anti M on December 4, 2008 at 3:06pm
Thank you Ellen. My loss in no way diminishes the journey in front of you and your sister. Best healing wishes for you both and your family.
Comment by Anti M on December 4, 2008 at 1:32pm
My brother passed last night, he had multiple myeloma and amyloidosis. I'm still in shock.

He had the stem cell transplant, but because of the amyloids and some other complications, he didn't do well with it once he got home. Begin preparing the "clean rooms" she will inhabit now. If her general health has been good, she should do well.

Usually this procedure works well and provides more years if not a cure. I hope everything goes well for her. Can she have a laptop? My brother liked having his, and he watched a lot of movies when he couldn't do much else.
Comment by Anti M on November 12, 2008 at 7:51pm
I'm a daily clicker!
Comment by Anti M on November 9, 2008 at 2:47pm
PS ... my cancers were 2004. So I'm four years out.
Comment by Anti M on November 9, 2008 at 2:46pm
Thanks for the invite, Queenie, how do you find us all?

I am a double cancer survivor. In 2001, my oldest brother died of colon cancer. He had no symptoms and passed away nine days after diagnosis. I had my first colonoscopy early, at age 47 because of his history. They found a colon carcinoid in the wall of my large intestine, and removed it. I had no chemo or radiation. I did have a hernia from the surgery, which wasn't corrected until I got through ... drumroll... breast cancer too. Same darn year.

I had a shadow on a mammogram at the same time as the colonoscopy. Six months later, the shadow was larger,and the biopsy came back: cancer. So I had a lumpectomy. No chemo, and I was able to have Brachytherapy. That's radiation which is internal, through catheters. Five days instead of six weeks. I am now on maintenance Tamoxifen. Thank you Tricare, for testing which saved my life twice in one year! Without the early colonoscopy, the carcinoid would have spread and I wouldn't be here.

My nephew is in bootcamp now. He knows his dad, my third oldest brother, has multiple myeloma with amyloidosis. He went through chemo to kill his immune system, then they transplanted his own stem cells in to fight the cancer. So far, so good, but I am worried. He's had complications related to the treatments. There is no cure, and I don't know how the amyloids will be treated. He's my favorite brother, I don't know what we'll do if we lose him.

So, three siblings of four in my family have had cancer. I was the lucky one, having caught both mine early. Ladies, do NOT skip those mammograms and colonoscopies! If you're too busy for testing, how busy can you be with cancer?

hugs and love for everyone here.
Comment by MeLinda on August 11, 2008 at 11:39pm
I have started a group called 2009 Navy Mom's 3-Day Breast Cancer Walk. Please join this group if you are interested in joining my team or starting a team of your own or just learning more about the 3-Day
 

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