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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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!
Started by MelonieM. Last reply by CorpsmanMom Jul 15, 2018. 1 Reply 0 Likes
FMF camp lejuene
Started by nikki. Last reply by CorpsmanMom Jul 15, 2018. 2 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by TexasDocMom on June 14, 2010 at 4:27pm
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Join us here on Moms with kids in Iraq/Afghanistan someone is always home...when a notice of a post comes to any of us, someone will always respond! You're not alone, Bugsmom....
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No one hates what our children have to do in war more than me. No one hates war more than me. But it's what they do, what they are doing right now, in Iraq and Afghanistan. How proud that mom could be to see her son treating an Afghani or Iraqi, using his skills. I hope she saw that picture in one of the places it was posted.
Like I said before, I spend alot of time offering online support by emails and on this board and a Marine email board, talking with moms who have newly deployed kids, many for the first time. It's critical to their sanity that they KNOW their son or daughter is not the same one that didn't make his bed in high school, he is a grown man, with a very, very important job working with other grown men and women, and they train hard, train well, and use that training every day to watch out for one another and people like the man in that photo. All of this gives them a better shot at coming home safely. Having a deployed kid sucks, and it doesn't ever get easy, but maybe, once that mom gets it, she can sleep just a little better. It helped me to have that pointed out to me repeatedly, when my son was deployed. And to hear the maturity in his voice when we spoke on the phone....and to see him now, I don't know if the next deployment will be any easier, but I know he's a man enough to handle it. And he deserves my respect.
apology accepted! and please, have a great Flag Day!! I'm hoping for it to drop under 85 before dark so I can work in the yard, and climb up and unwrap the flag again, so windy!!
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Happy Flag Day, mine is always flying! and Happy Birthday to the US Army and blessings to all the IA Corpsman who might be stationed with them wherever they are!!
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Others refer in general terms to "cubs" on some of the posts. Read back some.
You were the one who accused me of attacking you. I don't know if you expected me to just take the insult or what. I don't take kindly when I'm accused of something I didn't do. I don't hide my comments in emails and instant messages behind people's backs, I say what I have to say right out loud.
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Bugsmom, I haven't attacked anyone on this board. I am expressing my opinion, and admins get to have opinions as well. This is an active discussion on facebook as well right now, those moms feel free to share their views there more so than here because of that old fall back line "you're ATTACKING me!" that seems to pop up on N4M so often.
I feel calling the children of other women by the name of "cub" or any name is disrespectful. I get to have that opinion and to encourage others on this board do to show the same respect. Take over to the other board, they don't care. I do. This board was here first and remains here in spite of the efforts of the clique on that other board to have it removed. I understand that upsets them, but this board is not a clone, it's a spot for moms who want support and evidently there are those who agree with me about the lack of respect being shown by using cutesy names for the corpsman children of moms who do not like those words being used in reference to our sons and daughters. Or, like my son has requested, will not allow it because he asked me to not do such a stupid thing on a public board.
So, sorry you're sad, I guess...but that's your problem not mine. And like my old mom the Navy wife used to say...'don't be breakin' that arm patting yourself on the back "
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To each his own, I just prefer to recognize my son as the man he is, and show him that respect. Best wishes to your son Bugsmom, and to all of our corpsmen and Marines serving in Afghanistan and those in Iraq. Alot of Riverines still in Iraq, they all have corpsmen with them as well as well as those IA Corpsmen serving with the Army.
Besides, my son lurks on these boards and he'd kill me if I used a family type endearment in public for him! not to mention the comments he would hear from his buddies!
As the admin of this particular group, I would hope we all show respect to our sons and daughters serving, and call them by their proper military name. This is a CORPSMAN's moms support group, for all moms, those that show up all the time, and those that only need support some of the time. I don't want any one to feel uncomfortable about dropping in once or a thousand times, no cliques, none of that...it's for ALL moms of Navy Corpsman, deployed or stationed in the USA...all are welcome. We just ask that our Corpsmen are shown the respect they deserve. Calling your child by an endearment is fine, but it would seem more proper when one wants to inquire about someone else's child to use son or daughter, or Corpsman.
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I don't have a "cub", I have a full grown son that's a Navy Corpsman Iraq War Vet. I understand that many of you like those cute names, to keep your child young in your heart, I suppose, but I have to remind moms every day that their children are grown up, trained military personnel laying their lives on the line for our country, doing a hard job and doing it well so they will come home to their loved ones and to me, it's just not a fitting term. They are Corpsmen. Navy Corpsman. That's what my son is. And he's very proud to do the job and be called a Corpsman.
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Then if he's working as a surgery tech there, hopefully, he stays safely behind the wire and not out on patrol!
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Comment by Mitsubishi6769 on June 13, 2010 at 1:55am
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He told me that is what he's doing their.
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