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:
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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
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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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
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/hmhospitalcorpsmanaschoolinsanantonio
Current admins Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom and TexasDocMom
Please, if you no longer want to be a part of N4M's consider NOT deleting your profile as everything you have ever posted will disappear when you delete it . You can leave a group but don't permanently delete your profile!
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
Don't miss graduation from Great Lakes!
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FMF camp lejuene
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Comment by KellynKaty(corps-Mom) on April 6, 2011 at 1:49pm
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Hi Ladies, I have a question hopefully you can help. My son graduates bc in May.Can you tell me how long we get to spend with them. I know about the grad n go. But, I dont think he'll be doing that. So, if he's not gradngo,do we get just Friday or more time? I am wanting to book my hotel but not sure of what size of room.
Thank you...
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Comment by mamawalrus on April 4, 2011 at 1:37pm
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Thank you Texasmom... ANY info is so much appreciated,, I am starting over with this,, my son was reclassified so I was a veteran on what site, now a newbie! ahahahaha
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Comment by TexasDocMom on April 4, 2011 at 9:46am
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One of moms (with experience with two kids with mulitple deployments) has started this group this week...I'll be posting on it as I get my stuff organized, but it's for families facing the "leaving the miltitary" transisiton and heading into civilian life....please share and feel free to post links, etc....
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Comment by Pam on April 3, 2011 at 5:41pm
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TDM - great, great words. I had tears come to my eyes because I can see my son making those calls to me. He wants to go FMF and it scares me to think of that, but it's his job and he loves what he does. What more could a parent ask for? For now, I'll enjoy him being a "little" safer in Italy. I know that could change in a heartbeat, but I'll not borrow worry until I have to. Thanks again - your awesome.
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Comment by btmom on April 3, 2011 at 5:35pm
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Tonimarie, good luck with your choice to join the Navy. I live in Michigan too and have kids who are young adults and understand your situation. Sort of feel like some of the group was llittle hard on you. The Navy won't be easy but they do work with families, everyone has to make some hard choices sometime. It would bother me more if you weren't concerned about the needs of your family during your journey thru this. Lots of luck, I wish you all the best and it won't always be easy but stick with it and I think you will find happiness with your choice.
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Comment by Emilie on April 3, 2011 at 3:43pm
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Texas - you are really something great! Thanks for your kind, wonderful, tough words of guidance and encouragment. :)
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I probably should hunt down some of the links I've read and we've shared in the past about the proud history of the Navy Corpsman and their link to the Marines. I'll try to get that done in the next few days, because as you new moms come on board, we forget to share with you the depth of that relationship and how important it is. Navy Corpsmen are the most highly decorated rank in the military because of the their jobs and how well they do them. They save lives, and they do it every day. They are very well trained medics, and professionals at it...and they, as they earn the FMF qualification while serving greenside with a Marine unit, become very well trained Marines as well. Sometimes it seems like they walk in a no man's land between Marine and Navy, but they are one of the most respected members of the US military, bar none.
Early on on this board, a corpsman's wife shared a story...she was at some demo at a Marine base, with Army soldiers there to participate. They had one of those things of ropes, where the soldier/marine crawls under it for a long way, I forget exactly what it was. Well, a couple of soldiers get stuck out there in the middle, with an injury, and holler "medic"...that Army medic gets out there and hollers for another medic...and that medic got out there and took one look and stared yelling "CORPSMAN!" Just took one corpsman to get the guy out. (I have no idea if that is true or not...but that's the story!).
When my son went in as Corpsman, his best friend, a young Marine who grew up in Scouts with him and whose family lives across the street, called me to tell me not to worry..."don't worry, Mrs H, 200,000 Marines will take a bullet for the Doc"...I didn't know how to explain to him that either one of them "taking a bullet" wasn't an option for me...one of my first times of spontaneous tears. That young Marine is now a soccer high school coach in PA, married to a smart young lady sailor, now a recruiter.
My son was called up early for FMTB when he first went to Lajuene, to fill a class. I have to tell you, he loved that training...it was hard, but he LOVED it. A lot of it is picking up 250 lbs of dead weight and running as hard as they can...their thighs will be huge! My long lanky kid is now pretty solid. They learn the difference between hospital techniques (establish breathing first for example) and military techniques (stop the bleeding, pick them up and run). This is over simplification...so don't quote me here. He'd call to tell me he was just like his grandma..my mom, the nurse for 50 years and so expert at hitting veins, the hospital would call her in for tiny babies on her days off...."I hit 6 times in a helicopter!" so excited! "we had 14 guys go down in the heat, it was great!"...what?? Learning to do the job and doing the job and then getting really good at the job is their life now.
All we can do is sit home and be proud. And somewhat scared at times. We have a group for moms with kids deployed to Afghan and Iraq. We hope you never have to join us, but if you do, you'll find one tough group of folks...even if we start out as quivering masses of nerves. You are not walking this path alone.
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Tenn Navy Mom - About a month before my son graduated from A school last September most had their Orders changed and it became mandatory they had to go through FMTB before they went to their duty stations. He had a friend that was dental and as soon as his studies were over, he had to go to NC to attend FMTB and just graduated last month. I can tell you that not all go FMF. My son said, however, of the nearly 300 Corpsman that went through FMTB with him in San Diego, only about 20 did not go FMF. Whether that was by choice or not, I don't know. As scary and unsettling as it is to have a child in harms way, the Marine's are known to take care of their "Doc" and that Corpsman is very well protected. Good luck to your son in his FMTB training. They come out of it with so much respect for what the Marines do, I know my son did.
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Comment by sandy S-11 D-120 on April 2, 2011 at 7:45pm
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ous son is starting A school for corpsman 4-18 What is his liberty? Can we see him during the afternoon?
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The Navy "voluntells" for you...ha!
Toriimarie, we all wish you the best, but you came here for advice and that's what we gave...if it's not what you want to hear, we can't help that. I thought from your posts that you were a single parent, so with Dad around, perhaps you won't have to worry so much about your kids as we thought. Good luck to you.
Deborah, who the heck knows? I hear some places that people aren't being moved because of economic reasons, I hope that's true, because right now my son is safe and sound in the US as an instructor. That works for me. Maybe not for him, but really, moms matter, too....
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