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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:
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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
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Lots of Corpsman moms around! Share your experiences here, your wisdom and your support of one another! All are welcome! HM 'A' School moms/dads/loved ones, please also join us at
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Current admins Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom and TexasDocMom
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Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/corpsmenmoms
Location: All over this world!
Members: 1064
Latest Activity: Dec 30, 2024
Please check out the information at the links below the photos.
HM 'A' School moms/dads/loved ones! Please also join in at
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/hmhospitalcorpsmanaschoolinsanantonio
Anderson Hall is in San Antonio, on the campus of Fort Sam Houston...the place where future corpsmen learn their trade. "Doc" Anderson served with the Marine 1/6. (He also went to Basic and to FMTB with my son. TDM)
Fleet Marine Force (top) and Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist qualification pins
Shipboard corpsmen working underway
Click on links (in bold and underlined)
The HM Rating - the only enlisted medical corps in the Navy
PLEASE REVIEW these Operational Security guidelines: OPSEC and an easy to remember version
RELATED N4M GROUPS:
HM (Hospital Corps) A School in San Antonio - If your sailor is headed to or is currently at A School, this group is the best place for you to ask questions and get info right now. Medical Education & Training Campus, San Antonio, Texas (METC) is the "go to" non-N4M official site for information on Hospital Corps A school in San Antonio.
Moms with Kids in Iraq/Afghanistan If your corpsman is deploying to the "sandbox," please join us, you'll find folks with open arms, lots of support and the same fears and questions you have.
FIELD MEDICAL TRAINING BATTALION (FMTB) is an eight-week course in advanced medical training, small arms training, and the Marine Corps way of life. Official sites:
FMTB - EAST Camp Johnson at Camp Lejeune, NC. Links include a Life at FMTB slideshow, study manual, lots more, click here for what to bring, car and mail info, etc.
FMTB-East on Facebook has photos, info about upcoming graduations.
NavyforMoms FMTB groups: Camp Lejeune Moms and Camp Pendleton Corpsmen
FMF qualifications and FMF: Sailors earn respect
Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (Virginia) and NMC/San Diego
Navy Individual Augmentee (aka "IA") and "Navy IA" iPhone app
Fleet and Family Support Program Facebook Page
Absentee Voting Assistance
Defense Center of Excellence For Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Help for TBI and PTSD for active military, vets and their families.
Real Warriors This site has phone apps, emergency numbers, 24 hour hot lines to help a vet or a family struggling with PTSD, TBI and other issues when they return home from deployment.
VAWatchdog.org If this site doesn't have the link you need for your Veteran, there isn't a website for it. Amazing.
Navy Reserve FAQs Got questions about the Reserves/your reservist? here's the spot!
FACEBOOK LINKS:
METC Facebook Has photos!
Basic Medical Technician Corpsman Program Facebook page. Graduation dates, photos of each class.
Facebook Support for OPSEC A good page to share with your sailor and to keep up with yourself concerning online and social media OPSEC.
Dogs on Deployment One-Stop Resource page for military members to turn to for advice and direction to all pet-related needs. They also are looking for fosters.
NAVY NEWS: http://www.navy.mil (official Navy site); and Navy Times - weekly newspaper published by Gannett, subscription $55/yr.
Navy facilities in the U.S. - interactive map. Clicking on the name takes you to the website for that location. There is also a link to a list of ship homeports.
Search U.S. Navy social media sites here: http://www.navy.mil/navyDirectory.asp
Graphic novel "The Docs" for deploying corpsmen
CARE PACKAGES: USPS # - 800-610-8734, say "Order supplies" and then ask for the Military Pack. They'll send you six priority-mail large boxes for military, tape, and labels, all for free. You can order cases of 10 and 25 online sent for free, too; choose quantity under "select format" at right on that page. Send up to 70 lbs for $13.45. Questions and inspiration: Care Package Ideas
TO ANY MOM WHOSE CORPSMAN IS DEPLOYING TO A WAR ZONE - look above and find the link to "Moms with Kids in Iraq/Afghanistan"...go read, go lurk, post when you're ready. We know your fear, your thoughts and tears and joy and laughter.
RETURNING WARRIOR WORKSHOPS - For sailors returning from mobilization or Individual Augmentees from deployment, here is information and the 2013 schedule of workshops around the country: RWW 2013
Discussion Forum
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Comment by TexasDocMom on June 22, 2011 at 3:41pm
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Mari, I was raised in the LDS faith, and I'm sure no one wants a Mormon to start posting from the Book of Mormon or the Pearl of Great Price. Those are books unique to that faith. Not all faiths use the Bible as scripture and those that do have several interpretations. As a child, I learned to pray spontaneously, I had never read a written prayer except for the Lord's Prayer. I also learned, especially after the 2nd grade when I was told my teacher that I "prayed wrong", to pray privately. Quietly, like the Bible says. There are a lot of Christian oriented groups on NavyForMoms, especially after the big battles fought for them a couple of year ago because of this being a federally funded board. That was the compromise, I believe. We also had an Interfaith group that chose to go private because of persecution from some moms. That is why this group is apolitical and no single religious doctrine. All are welcome. and please, feel free to add my corpsman to your prayer list, he needs every one!! Others may choose to send him good energy, rieki, thoughts or whatever they call it....he needs that, too!
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Comment by MariNavyMom(Ship11 Div 199) on June 22, 2011 at 3:26pm
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I thought prayers and scripture were pretty universal, my bad. College is no way like being in the military, I have had several family members who were or are in the service over the years and we would get comments like this all the time. For some people college is the closest they have ever come to being away from their loved one and the only thing they can compare to.
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Lori! me too on the military movies...no way...too close to home!
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docs mom...7 years as a Doc!! are you in our group for moms with kids deployed to Iraq/Afghanistan? we need every experienced voice there, especially those with a son like yours.
And the woman who would not "let" her son join the service! ha! we had a similar experience and really it comes down to this (and this is a corpsman's opinion too)...Do we want our kids serving next to anyone who relied totally on his mom "letting" him enlist? no. we don't! I know my son played me with the "I don't want to join the Marines, I want to join the Navy" and then volunteering as a greenside corpsman, the little sneak (and yes, son, I know you read this!) but he was old enough to enlist and did want my good wishes, but mainly, I think because we lost my nephew to brain injury that changed all of our lives....He also gave me the two years of college I asked for, so he went in at almost 21, and that was my goal. I knew he was going to enlist on 9/12/2001. He made it perfectly clear. Our young all volunteer military today are the ones who step up, and take on the world, just like our fathers and grandfathers did in WWII. I know that those good men would be so proud of this generation's military.
Can you give me more information on that ceremony? maybe I could make it there and get some photos...I'd love to see that new section of Fort Sam.
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Tenn Navy mom...we hear a lot about that comparison to college/boot camp/deployment thing in our group for those with deployed kids....I have to tell you, it made me crazy early on, but I've learned to be the rational one about it, usually. There is no comparison. I've had a kid leave for college and I've had a kid leave for Iraq and let me tell you, college was a piece of cake. You could still talk everyday on the phone and home on holidays. Well meaning people, I'm sure, but they don't get it. They just don't get it. The older women in my water aerobics class got it...bless them, they had been through a couple of wars, with husbands and brothers and sons....and they got it. They were so much support, just the hug and the touch on the shoulder, they knew. Sometimes I just wanted to say to those others "my son is in a country where people want to kill him because he's an American. Because he's blonde. Because he wears the uniform of a US Navy Corpsman. They don't know him, they don't want to...your kid is safe in the USA, there is no comparison." The other ones that bug me are that seem to be convinced that the law of averages guarantees his safe return. Or that he could more easily be hit by a car here in Austin than injured while deployed. WTH?? To them, I simply ask "where is your child stationed?" ....and when they say their kids aren't in the military, I smile, very sweetly and say "I could tell." grrrr.
I don't know if that TV show will show enough of the real ways of war to stop that ignorance. Even some of the things new moms here say just can floor me. I feel so bad for them, truly believing that because this is the Navy, their child will not end up in a war zone. Having that hard time accepting that their child is rapidly becoming a military professional, maturing at a rate probably 100 times faster than his best friend that didn't enlist. Accepting things we view as hardships as part of every day life, part of doing the job. And all we want is the ability to pick up a phone and talk to them on a regular basis...just to know they are safe and sound...see them in a facebook chat, or that they posted a status, and we know they are safe.
As to the scripture being posted, there are many groups on this board with that as their focus. This group is for the moms of corpsmen, apolitical and no single religious doctrine, please. I do not want one mom to come read this board and think that they will not be welcome because they are Jewish, or Bahia, or Muslim or Pagan, or practice whatever faith they have. We may be all that woman has to hold on to if she has a kid in Afghanistan and it's 3am.
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Comment by gnomesweetgnome Ship 11/Div199 on June 22, 2011 at 1:08pm
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Tenn-that is just RIDICULOUS. In our PIR group, one woman's friend made a comparison about sending your child off to college is the same as sending them off to boot camp. I completely disagree with that, but see how she could easily make that assumption not knowing how limited communication is at RTC. But being deployed and going off to college? Seriously? You handled that situation a lot more gracefully that I would have. ;)
Mari-I agree. Even for non-believers, prayer can't hurt and sincerely hope it does not make anyone uncomfortable. I welcome folks from any religion (or lack thereof) with open arms. :)
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Comment by Maria ( 9/132 - HM- 04-2011) on June 22, 2011 at 12:42pm
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I happen to watch it yesterday. Pretty good
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TexasDocMom-I compeletely understand that and when I post my prayers it is for all of us including myself, prayer never hurts it takes faith whether we believe or don't, either uplifting scriptures or quotes help everyone of us every day :)
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Thanks for the info, mamawalrus! :)
Mari, thank you. I needed that today!
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ABC, Mammawalrus...on Tuesday (at least last night).
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