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
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Please check out the information at the links below the photos.
HM 'A' School moms/dads/loved ones! Please also join in at
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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!
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Comment by TexasDocMom on July 1, 2009 at 9:42am
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Thank you Uli!
Gloria, maybe we should start a discussion with a link to the new corpsman groups and the ones in school...or maybe a links discussion, where we put the links and groups?
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Comment by Sharon P.M. on June 30, 2009 at 2:04pm
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Bruiser is a long haired double dapple dachshund. He weighs all of 10 lbs. He is the result of poor breeding (not supposed to breed 2 dapples) his coloring is beautiful but the reason for the birth defects as well. I've had him and his brother, Bumper, since they were 14 weeks old, they turned 5 yrs old in April. Bruiser wears a red color, we tell people don't try to touch the one in the red color, he likes ankles, they taste like chicken!
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sharon! he looks just like the dog that snipped me the other day, so I don't think it's the blind/deaf thing! he was a minature australian shepard, I think...I haven't been bit by a dog since I was 5 and walked up on a dog's blind side...it's very unusual for dogs to dislike me, but that one did! how funny, they look so much alike ( the two dogs, not your son and his dog...)
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This is a pic of my sailor when he was last home with his buddy Bruiser. Bruiser is one of my rescued pups, he and his brother were born blind and deaf. Bruiser lives up to his name, if he doesn't know you, he nips first, asks questions later. Aside from Frank and I, Dev is the only person he is comfortable enough with to snoodle with!
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Jean, senior moment here...I thought I was on this group for moms of kids in Iraq/Afghanistan, you are on this group as well, yes? and if you're not, or any mom with deployed kids are not, please join us there. It's a big help. A BIG HELP....
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My son said, and I am repeating myself here on this group, he said that all the guys might say they miss their wives, girlfriends or mothers...but they miss their dogs the most...!
Yes, with myspace and facebook (lots of Navy moms on facebook!) he can see the pictures the same day they are taken!! keep that camera handy!!
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GREAT news Jean! Your heart must just be full to bursting! Must ask, what does NPR stand for? I ask because that is what we refer our town as NPR = New Port Richey!
Tex - very cool idea, I will keep that in my mental files. Of course it would take all day to walk all of my dogs! LOL This year was the first that my son missed our boat parade so I had everyone hold one of those magic erase boards with messages to him that they wrote and took pics and sent them to him - he LOVED it!
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Good! and good for you for keeping those tears for after the call...I personally prefer the shower. Does he have a dog? a family pet? make notes, keep them by the phone, tell him what the dog is doing, send pictures online, via myspace or facebook of your yard, his neighborhood, the neighbors waving...familar things in his life, remind him you are all here, not going anyplace, the reason he serves, all that kind of stuff. I did a little video of walking our Rosie, as my son did many times...watching those little bowlegs trot and the tail bob...and even could hear her little feet going "plop, plop"...ran the camera over the houses as we walked by, with comments, like "kathy painted, looks great, huh?" it all helps, They may not even admit it, but I see how many hits my myspace photos got from Iraq...green trees, flowers blooming, the yard mowed...all that stuff!
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What's sad is that cartoon could have a young 24 year old Navy Corpsman Iraqi/Afghanistan vet talking to his little brother instead of the old vet talking to his grandson.
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Well, I am very thankful that my son was yo-yoing about re-enlisting and that the Navy re-assigned him on March 1. I guess that was their cutoff date so they would have the corpsmen on board that could train for the new deployment in that unit. Plus it made my son jump and get with a whoever he needed to to re-enlist and still have some say about his future if he stayed with the Navy.
It doesn't stop my heart from aching for those families, all of them Navy, Army, Marine, Air Force...all of them who have lost their loved ones serving our country.
Jean, keep us informed about your son's deployment, I want to hear everytime you hear he's safe and sound. Just knowing one young corpsman is okay at any given moment is a positive force for us all. Because we all realize at any time it could, and probably will, be one of our corpsman kids in that same situation.
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