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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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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 Sharon P.M. on February 27, 2010 at 12:05pm
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Good morning all - So nice to see some old friends here, Inga, Tex & Kristine! Y'all have ben missed! Hope all are having a nice weekend! Raining here, think I'll get started on that Navy scrapbook!
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Comment by TexasDocMom on February 27, 2010 at 11:29am
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Kristine, I think not being with those guys in Afghanistan is making my son crazy, those guys train together, get to be such a unit and team. Kathyryk, you son will be very well trained, a very big part of that team.
We also have a group here for moms with kids in Afghanistan and Iraq, please join us there, there are alot of experienced moms there, like Kristine...who will answer your questions and just keep those prayers and support going.
I've never had any tech issues with this site, and I like it because it's always offered support, answers to me and doesn't have a lot of chit chat to dig through when I have time to visit. I know that chit chat is good for some and important to those that enjoy it, but it is not for me. I know when I see a notification from this site or for the moms/iraq/afghanistan site that there's a mom there checking in, needing an answer or just a reminder that our kids safely made it home.
Inga, I hope you fire up here, your daughter is always such a help with information we can count on for accuracy!
My son is currently in San Antonio as an instructor for medical personnel entering the military, teaching field conditions. I think. I don't really know...I do know it's a 9 day course and he's busy as heck when it's going on....and bored when it's not, which makes me think he's thinking about going greenside again.grrr. But it's his life, he gets to live it his way.
Of course, we could be sending the Navy to Chile now...so all the best laid plans go awry anyway....sounds like they were better prepared than Haiti, tho.
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Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on February 26, 2010 at 11:18am
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"Diane Haig" is not a real person. It's a front for an Australian law firm soliciting business in a lot of groups today; ignore or even delete if possible.
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TDM, echo your sentiments and hope to see you & others over here, too!
Wade, congratulations to you and your son, and not to worry. Driving back to Scottsdale from San Diego at Thanksgiving, my son (a corpsman) and I detoured off I-10 because he wanted to see the Twentynine Palms base. I thought it would be all desert but you drive through several good-sized towns along the way (big enough for Walmart, Home Depot etc). The base has an impressive entry; the hospital looks great and is right in the center of things; the barracks we saw nearby looked new and nice. RE summer heat: I've lived in humidity (VA and HI) and I love Arizona in summer. It's not a myth; I don't really start feeling it till it heads toward 110. It's not uncomfortable at all the way humidity wipes you out, and nights are great. I hope your son has a car for getting off base. It's an easy drive to Carlsbad, CA (2 1/2 hrs), a great beach and town. An hour from the base is Cabazon, a huge outlet mall with upscale stores. 29 Palms site: http://www.29palms.usmc.mil, also click on their newspaper "The Observation Post" under the large photo. A good description also at http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/29palms.htm
Here's the hospital:
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Hi, wade....welcome, I'd love to see this group flourish again!
Yes, 29 Palms is not beach territory, but I bet it is warmer than GL...and the sun will shine! Congrats to your sailor!
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Comment by Margaret_ProudTexasMomof2Sailors on December 21, 2009 at 9:54pm
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Inga, Thanks for your information. My son just got his orders for after A school. He will go to FMTB East and then to New Orleans, LA. He wanted Japan, but the last slot was taken just before him. I prefere New Orleans, since I am in Dallas, and it will be closer to home!
I'm just so glad to have him home for two weeks. He leaves on Jan. 2, and then I fly up on the 7th for his brother's PIR on the 8th. I feel so lucky! He will be gone less than a week and I will see him again!
Wade, Laurence says the same thing about GL! He is so glad to be back in Texas where the weather is MUCH better.
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My corpsman son was home (Scottsdale AZ) for Thanksgiving, after which we spent a weekend in Dana Point, CA. Driving back he decided we'd take a detour off I-10 and so we could see what the Twentynine Palms base was like. I was surprised that the 40-mile drive northeast to the base took us not just through the desert but through several good-sized towns on the way, even passing a Walmart and Home Depot. The initial impression of the base was of activity & vitality, arranged much more compactly than Pendleton, with the hospital centrally located. The fences up to the entry are festooned with personalized posters welcoming Marines home; emotional. The bachelor barracks looked new and nice. In summer it'll be plenty warm (up to 120) but dry (I know it's a cliche but as an Arizonan I know 110 isn't bad). Right now now the days are 60s, with cool to chilly nights. Before we left the moon rose over the mountains, a beautiful scene. Overall Twentynine Palms was much nicer and more hospitable than I'd anticipated!
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Kristine - Jake is in good hands at Bethesda, I met some wonderful folks that are stationed and work at the hospital, a special group indeed. Will keep him in my prayers for a good, strong recovery.
So wonderful that you heard from your man-cub! He too is in my prayers.
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Ok - so I'm having issues with this site too - no posts since yesterday afternoon! I got some from my other pages though, perhaps we have used our quota of pages! LOL!
Nikki - hang in there girl, it's always hard to be the "new kid on the block". Have you looked into activites at a community center? Maybe some Mommy and Me stuff? Our family moved several times when I was a kid and I decided that when I had kids of my own they would never have to go to a new neighborhood and school and go through making new friends, they would have good deep roots at home. 3 of 5 have not only moved out of town but out of state! Go figure! So much for my roots theory! My husband says it's because they know full well that I'm never going to leave and they will always know where to find their momma.
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