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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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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 Loralee on March 8, 2014 at 9:47pm: DramaSoul; I don't remember my oldest son's rate. Does Engineman should like a rate? Anyway he did his 4 years, changed over to Army and now stationed in Germany.

Comment by DramaSoul on March 8, 2014 at 6:57pm: Loralee...from what I understand, things have changed since 2006! What was your oldest son's rate?

IDCmom#1...My son said the same thing about FMTB training. He was in pretty good shape when he got there but much better shape after. It's only the basics of combat medicine. He has learned a lot more at his duty station (29 Palms working in the hospital and then a clinic). He just became a certified ACLS instructor.

Comment by Loralee on March 8, 2014 at 6:49pm: Learning a lot from reading the comments here. Awesome group. My son arrived at RTC this week, so he is just beginning. I am trying to learn as much as I can. You would think I was new to the Navy, but I am not. My oldest son graduated RTC in May of 2006, but he didn't become a Corpsman so I am in training all over again.

Comment by IDCmom#1 on March 7, 2014 at 4:10pm: I didn't think that FMTB was a C school, either, and asked my son about it. He says it is a technicality. They earn a new NEC and it is listed in the CANTRAC as a C school. Sometime between Vietnam and Gulf War, it was an elected C school but not now.

He said at the end of FMTB, you are not considered a battlefield medic and that title would be earned if in actual combat situation. His personal feeling about FMTB is that you focus more on PT than actual life saving combat care.
Assume that is very important if you are expected to keep up with physically fit Marines.

He did not go to FMTB until he had been in the Navy for 8 years and he had already completed year long C school for Independent Duty Corpsman. He said he learned more combat medicine during IDC school but I know he was not as physically fit as the new corpsmen arriving from A school so it was tougher on his old body!

Whatever FMTB is officially, it is a long eight weeks and they come out more fit than when they went in.

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on March 5, 2014 at 11:06pm: Michelle & car fruit, the official site for Field Medical Training Battalion East at Camp Lejeune has more info than its Camp Pendleton counterpart; go to http://www.tecom.marines.mil/fmtbn-e/UnitHome.aspx then -> Students -> Welcome -> FMST.

There's also info in the 'Discussions' part of in the Camp Lejeune Moms group, i.e. this one with info, maps, where to stay for graduation, etc.

Please join us in this group for A School moms and be sure to go through the links at the top of that page, lots of information!

One more thing, there isn't a C School for 'battlefield HM.' FMTB is an additional eight weeks of advanced training in combat medical care, small arms training, and exposure to Marine Corps culture that almost all corpsmen go through sooner or later, and isn't designated a C School.
There's a link to all the C Schools among the links at the A School group.

Comment by carfruit on March 5, 2014 at 10:49pm: Thank you Michelle. He is headed to FMTB west. I'll have to check out that site. Good luck to your son too!

Comment by Michelle on March 5, 2014 at 2:12pm: Hi carfruit , Good luck to you son . Is your son going to California or North Carolina for FMTB ? My son will be going to North Carolina. They don't have a very active site on Navymore4Mom site foe east coast FMBT. I went to west coast FMBT Navy4Mom site and was able to get more information about FMBT there

Comment by carfruit on March 5, 2014 at 11:52am: Hi Michelle, my son just graduated on Monday from A school for Corpsman in San Antonio. He is now headed to FMTB and can't wait to get started.

Comment by Michelle on March 5, 2014 at 9:24am: My son will be going to RTC June 17th then A school in San Antonio and then to C school to become a battlefield HM. I'm very proud of him and hope there is other parents on here that there child has gone through the same thing my son will be going through.

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on March 5, 2014 at 12:59am: Welcome Loralee, and sending hugs your way :) Please also come and join this group - HM (Hospital Corps) A School in San Antonio for moms of corpsmen-to-be. Happy you found us, look forward to getting to know you and your son!