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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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
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Comment by Sharon P.M. on August 18, 2009 at 10:28am
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So glad to see the posts about LD21 - I was thinking to myself is this for real or is it a joke? I lean toward being more like Tex, tell it like it is. Our kids are in the military, that means if we are at war there's a darned good chance they will see combat, what exactly is hard to understand about that? Good grief! Ladies (and Dads), you have raised your children to become adults, they have become acceptional adults, job well done!! :0)
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Comment by TexasDocMom on August 18, 2009 at 9:06am
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Really! I went to bed too early!
My son lurks occasionally on this board...he said "mom, you were upset when I went to BC..." and I said.."yes, I was. I missed you terribly, you had been in that bed every morning of your life almost every single day of it... but I didn't worry or even think much about what you were doing, it never entered my mind that you might not be able to do this....and certainly, no mom sees her kid off to the military when our country is in two war zones without worry..." You raise them to grow, make their own decisions in life (even if you don't agree!) and work hard and live their lives. You don't get to tell them "I changed my mind, you need to never leave home...". I'm pretty proud of my son and my daughter, like we all are, I've raised smart good kids who have matured into smart, better adults with loving hearts and strong work ethics. I think LD21 will realize she did that as well. I hope so!
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My dog is going to turn me in to the cruelty people if we don't walk tomorrow, but it's HOT by 9am, especially for her, she's short. It's still in the 90's here right now!
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When you delete your account, all your posts, any discussions you started, or groups you started are removed, like you never ever existed. She must have deleted her account. I hope if she' s lurking that she sees she's missed! and we're such worry warts, we'll worry.
No, Gloria, I was my normal brutal self right up front and she asked to be my friend...she needs frank talk, she can't keep listening to that recruiter. Guys like that make them all look bad!
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Angie F.- WA: HM mom is her friend I think. I mean in real life. She made me her friend yesterday on this board, but she's not there now.
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She's pretty spooked, I hope she comes back...it's going to be a long two months for her.
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Well, happy news on my sailor - he's coming home for the Labor Day weekend and a fellow classmate or two is coming along with him! This mom is in her glory! Of course my son has already told me that this will probably be his last visit home for a couple years as he hopes to go overseas but I will not dwell on that! :0)
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LD21 - Breath, slowly breath...your son will be fine. This is obviously a difficult transition for all of you but you will make it! Send him lots of uplifting letters while he's in boot camp, no "crying I miss you so much letters" aim for the "we're SO PROUD of you" theme, it will do him wonders. As far as where he will go after A-school, you're putting the cart in from of the horse, that's a long way off so relax! Have you popped into the page for bootcamp moms yet? And I don't know where you live but you may even have a page for local area moms, I know that where I live we have the Tampa Bay area moms page. Hang in there, your son didn't go in blindly and he's much stronger than you know!
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yeah, no cutesy stuff...or condoms. My SIL put condoms in a package my daughter mailed...(he's an Army vet) ....and my son was hailed as "captain condom" for the duration...hey, they gave him the choice to accept the package or not, and he just saw his sister's name..."what harm?" HA!
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Great post, Christy. LD21, he is fine. No one is going to hurt him, he is getting 3 meals a day, and he's in the USA.
I know it's all new to you, but visit the group with Kids in Iraq and Afghanistan, those women, they have reason to be scared, and they hold each other up. Some have 2 or 3 kids in the military and some are deployed at the same time. Your son is fine. Get out of the house, do some exercise, see a chick flick...something!!
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