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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
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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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Please check out the information at the links below the photos.
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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 October 7, 2009 at 10:20am
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Ruthella, thankful your son was no where around that mess, they are, after all, young Marines and drinking doesn't bring out the brains in many people.
Between my nephew's terrible accident at 16 and the years of rehabs following when my son was about 11, and now being a corpsman, he seems to think about that driving thing...I'm told there is ALWAYS a designated driver. I hope it's true! He knows what can happen and what life is like after a devestating car accident. I know he'll never forget the sight of that respirator in ICU hooked up to his older, most admired athletic cousin...or what has become of his cousin since. He just won't.
Where do you keep all that stuff, Ruthella? I talk about selling the house but I'm the storage facility for most of my family.
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you know, I don't know...I have done it with the peppers frozen..I rinse them with water, pat them dry and then put the oil on them and stick them right in the oven, they do great, nice little brown blister spots, yum. I've also reheated the roasted broc after it's been in the fridge, and it's okay, pretty good. Try it with some of it, the worst you will have is some wilted roasted broc, but you can throw it in some pasta....it just might not have the crunch.
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Gloria, do you eat steamed broccoli anymore? not me...mushy.
I have a friend here in Austin, a musician and author, Mary Kyle, who has written a children's book about a little girl whose father is deployed over seas, and reading it just put me in tears, but I think I over react. We're working with some facebook Navy moms and others to get this book into the hands of deployed personnel to send back to their elementary school age children. It's called A Valentine for Miranda. Any ideas?
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Roasted broccoli...house concert favorite, once you eat it this way, you will not eat it any other way.
Cut into small florets ( I buy the big bag at Costco, less cutting todo)...use a good sheet pan, spread out the broc, sprinkle liberally with olive oil, get your hand in it, you want the broc to glisten, not to be soaked....sprinkle with kosher salt (each piece of broc gets a touch), black pepper and minced garlic. Now, you can mince fresh garlic but I use the sprinkle stuff from the seasoning's aisle....place in a 375 degree oven for 7-15 minutes...I like it crispy, and I mean it's turning black on the little buds, it's so good! You can roast carrots (longer, I use the little ones), peppers ( I like the red/orange/yellow sweet ones), tomatoes (the yucky ones? slice and make sure both sides have oil, roast slowly until they carmelize...slowly means long time low oven) The tomatoes never make it to the serving platters. We eat them all. This is something you can make in the morning, platter up, put saran wrap on it and serve in the afternoon at room temp.
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I thought about that, Gloria...but when I called my "regular" nurse wasn't there...kind of threw me off. I wanted to get a cheaper generic if it doesn't make any difference to me medically anyway, so this never happens again.
I had no idea going off of them for a month would make so much difference, this was a really painful gall bladder episode. Thank goodness for my doc and his doc's advice...who knew?
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Corpsman son story...I've been sick. Nausea, yucky, pain in the side sick. Due to an insurance audit, I lost my health insurance for about a month...and didn't get my cholesterol meds...corpman son calls " MOM! get your meds, now..." seems the gall bladder responds rapidly to jumps in cholesterol. So...now I'm hasseling with Walgreens who wants 125 bucks for the same medicine that costco has for 16 dollars! But the kid is probably right...handy thing, those corpsman kids.
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Uli, I have not had coffee since Saturday morning. I wonder if it's safe yet...I'd love a cup of coffee....really dark roasted oily bean coffee, fresh ground...yumm.
and yes MY SON will be instructing in San Antonio! if you knew how many smiles that draws in the old neighborhood, you'd crack up...him? a teacher? he drove teachers literally to early retirement!
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Wade, most of our kids are (or will be) FMF, most corpsmen go into that program, it trains them to be field combat corpsmen. The A school at Camp Lajuene will start him on that path.
Angie..how nice to get a chair! I'm old, that works for me! but while I am personally very happy to be able to see my son's face frequently (since I haven't had a son hug in about 10 months, but who is counting?), I will still be thinking about those deployed kids, especially the unit he served with in Iraq which will soon be deployed again, as I know he will be thinking about them, too. I only know Kristine and another couple of moms left with that unit, but he has made life time friends in that group of young Marines and corpsmen, and I know he thinks about them alot. Friends and families in warzones just do not leave your brain, I guess. How did our mothers/grandmothers/ gggrandmothers do this?
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Kristine, with the news lately, it's got to be gut wrenching for all of you right now, please know you are in our prayers and thoughts, all the time.
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Ruth, whoever bothered you on the other threads has issues you don't need to deal with, just stick here.
Here's my take on the corpsman training after they leave the military. One of my son's buddies from field training went immediately to Iraq, and then got out right after he returned. It was about then we had all the mess about the vet's hospitals surface, and I thought...that is where these "retiring" young docs should be...in those hospitals, taking care of those vets they helped bring home. Then, with the focus on health care reform...picture store front clinics, manned by our young docs when they leave the Navy. Open 7am-7pm, they do triage, stitch up cut fingers, diagnose athlete's foot (ha!) etc...same thing they do in the BAC all day long. Work with or under Drs or PA's.... they could work part time, continuing their education...what do you think?
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