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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 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

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

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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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Navy Speak

Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)

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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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Corpsmen Moms and Dads

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For those of us who have children serving as Corpsmen, above and beyond the call of duty!

Location: Worldwide
Members: 676
Latest Activity: Jan 10, 2021

Established June 17, 1898, the 25,000+ active duty members of the U.S. Navy Hospital Corps provide health care to Sailors, Marines, and all those entrusted to their care on the battlefield, at sea, under the sea, and at military treatment facilities worldwide.

What to expect at Field Medical Training Battalion (FMTB)

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Comment by DramaSoul on March 20, 2014 at 4:20pm: My son sent me a big text thank you for his Littman II which I got him 2 years ago. He said he can hear so much with it. This thank you came out if the blue. He had a patient that morning with congestion and he could hear much better than his friends using the standard stethoscopes in the clinic.

Comment by IDCmom#1 on March 20, 2014 at 3:36pm: Just another mother,

Asked my son what the best gift a mom could send corpsman child and he said, 'socks." Took me aback because he always got a huge package of white socks for Christmas growing up. He clarified and said the socks I sent him when he was in deployment training. They are the ones moms mention all the time on here.

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If in a Navy command, black ones. If in Field Med, green or brown. He says he wears his green and brown ones with his regular Navy cammies and no one notices.

Think he was hinting so I am going to order some more for him. Not easy to buy for him so I am jumping on this suggestion.

Comment by IDCmom#1 on March 20, 2014 at 3:21pm: Just another mother,

As mom of both an IDC and RN, I can tell you that their choice is Littman and my daughter's favorite was her pink Littman one that her brother gave her when she graduated from nursing school. I just asked her what "style" it is and she said she doesn't remember.

But, both of them use stethoscopes provided to them by their work place. My son said it isn't worth having your own in the Navy because they disappear too easily. He has been in the Navy for ten years and I think he has only had one personal stethoscope and it is long gone.

Our daughter has had two, both Littmans. We had the little piece they come with engraved with her name but the nametag is easily removed. Since she is a NICU nurse, she uses the hospital's stethoscopes specifically made for tiny babies. She doesn't have a clue where her personal ones are, somewhere in her house.

I just texted son and asked what he would recommend and he said, "Littman Classic II" and "The opportunities are unlimited to "acquire" his own from his place of work but if he asks his supply PO nicely, they may just give him one." Also says junior corpsman regularly "steal cheap crappy ones out of the BP kits."

Thinking about gifts for our corpsman children, I know my son likes t-shirts with corpsman sayings on them just as my daughter loves NICU related t's. Have also given daughter mugs related to NICU.

Comment by squid on March 20, 2014 at 2:10pm: My o from personal experience as a nurse. They do not need a cardiology stethescope. I found it harder to listen to lung sounds with a cardiac stethescope. A general one is fine, and big tip,most stetehscopes come with interchangeable ear pieces. Have him use the one that expand, as ifto close ear. I can look at scope brands and let you know a sdpecific, but lithman is good.

Comment by Bobbo on March 20, 2014 at 1:06pm: Thought this was a great article on the Navy in general.

http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2014/03/11/americas_navy_n...

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on March 19, 2014 at 10:13pm: Just an FYI for anyone with a corpsman at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (Virginia) - there was a non-injury fire in Building Three at the hospital today, started by an air compressor related to the building's renovation. Building Three is mostly administrative, and again, there were no injuries. http://wavy.com/2014/03/19/fire-reported-at-portsmouth-naval-medica...

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on March 19, 2014 at 10:02pm: Welcome Raqi'smom, and congratulations on your son's new Navy career! As far as I know, there isn't a separate group for dental assistant moms and dads. Hopefully you'll meet some here though!

Comment by Libra's mom on March 12, 2014 at 12:13am: Hi there!

I'm new in this group. My son just finished his A school last Monday and going to C school for dental assistant. Is there a group for dental assistant mom & dad? Thanks

Comment by Michelle on March 11, 2014 at 8:29am: Mamawalrus no duty site he is going to be in the reserves. He is going to FMTB and then it sounds like more training in North Carolina afterwards because recruiter said he will be there about 4 months unless he had it wrong . My son wants to do some missions in the reserves then maybe decide to go in the Navy full time at a later date.

Comment by mamawalrus on March 11, 2014 at 1:08am: FMTB is basics as mentioned and some training but lots PT. Michelle, is your Corpsman designated "green" side or have duty station yet?