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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.

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Comment by Mon on July 4, 2014 at 5:35pm: Is there any moms out there who had a sailor starting A school on July 5th/6th? My son is..

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on June 26, 2014 at 11:20pm: Corpsman in the Spotlight today, via MCPON Stevens:

ARABIAN GULF (June 23, 2014) Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Logan Ortlieb, from Baton Rouge, La., center, fixes his shipmate's neckerchief before they enter a Junior Sailor of the Quarter board aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51). Arleigh Burke is deployed in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts. Photo by MC2 Carlos M. Vazquez II

Comment by DramaSoul on June 22, 2014 at 9:20pm: Thanks, Marcy!!! Love it!

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on June 17, 2014 at 6:36pm: Wow - over 600 again this year at the Norfolk/Portsmouth Virginia area's Hospital Corps Ball! Very cool. NMCP Hospital Corps Ball photos 6/14/14

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on June 17, 2014 at 2:08pm: Happy Birthday, Hospital Corps! Today marks the 116th anniversary of its founding on June 17, 1898. All over the world, formal Hospital Corps Balls are happening to celebrate it (last weekend in Naples Italy and Norfolk Virginia, to name but two). Corpsmen do all sorts of fundraising events all year and design and sell commemorative coins. The event itself is one of the most amazing and emotional you could ever see.

Here's this year's message from Vice Adm. Matthew L. Nathan, U.S. Navy surgeon general and chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery:

On behalf of Navy Medicine, I extend my sincere thanks and appreciation to the Navy Hospital Corps as they celebrate 116 years of unwavering dedication and service.

Since June 17, 1898, when President William McKinley signed an act of Congress, establishing the Hospital Corps, the Corps has grown exponentially in size and stature from the original 25 senior apothecaries appointed by the Secretary of the Navy.

Today, we honor their bravery, brilliance and sacrifice when serving in harm’s way to protect the lives of our Sailors and Marines. From the Revolutionary War to the current overseas contingency operations, corpsmen have served with valor and gallantly answered the call, “Corpsman up!” as they tend to the sick and injured on the sea, under the sea, in the air and on battlefields worldwide. No Marine has ever taken a hill without a corpsman by his side. And when they do, they take solace in knowing that “Doc” is beside them.

From the first Hospital Corps School at Naval Hospital Portsmouth in 1902, to our extensive training programs today at our Medical Education Training Command in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, corpsmen are learning razor-sharp life-saving skills. Because of their exceptionalness and their extensive training, we are experiencing the lowest battle mortality and non-battle injury rates in the history of armed conflict. This is unprecedented and something that the Hospital Corps should be extremely proud of.

The Hospital Corps is the largest and most decorated rating in the Navy, achieving 22 Medals of Honor among many other awards. Twenty naval ships have been named in honor of hospital corpsmen. Since 1919, 178 corpsmen have been awarded the Navy Cross. In the Vietnam War alone, hospital corpsmen received four Medals of Honor, 31 Navy Crosses, 127 Silver Stars, and 291 Bronze Stars for heroics under fire, a testament to the quality of character of the men and women that wear the caduceus and answer to “Doc”.

Today, we honor their bravery in battle; their compassion during humanitarian assistance/disaster response efforts; their willingness to help those in need; and their superb performance at our medical treatment facilities across the globe. They have ensured our nation has a fit and medically ready fighting force, while providing compassionate patient and family-centered health care.

To the more than 25,000 active duty and reserve corpsmen around the world, I thank you for your service, courage, and commitment for the work you do every day. Happy birthday Hospital Corps!

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on June 17, 2014 at 2:01pm: Welcome TogaMom! Here's a mom for you to connect with: "IowaGirlsMomCorpsmanBHT" and the link to her page is http://navyformoms.com/profile/IowaMom770. Her daughter graduated C school in February 2014. Good luck!

Comment by TogaMom on June 2, 2014 at 12:50pm: Hello Everyone! I'm looking to connect with or join a forum of family of BHT (Behavorial Tech) c school sailors? Curious about what to expect,etc. many Thanks and NMH!

Comment by familything on May 17, 2014 at 10:43am: Armed Forces Day! Fly those flags proudly Moms and Dads!

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on May 12, 2014 at 11:57pm: Thanks Vette! Had a great day with my mom, my sister and our newest mom in the family, my niece! Your turn is coming soon :)