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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:
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**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
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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.
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!
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 16, 2009 at 3:34pm
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Kristine, my son was transferred out of that unit in March when he was yoyoing about re-enlisting or not, or he'd be headed to another deployment as well. I know cher's son has transferred out and another corpsman that will be in San Antonio with my son in the fall, they must have made a big turn over. It will be bitter cold there, start checking those moms with kids in Afghanistan, start finding out what helps....and don't forget foxsox.com to get those military socks...coyote brown. Tell all the family, they're expensive but worth it. Shop for that winter camping type stuff now while they are clearing it out in the stores.
Can you tell I was preparing myself for my son to deploy in November back before he transferred out?
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Comment by Sharon P.M. on June 15, 2009 at 11:09am
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Catching up here as usual! Never seem to even look at my computer on the weekend never mind actually turning it on! LOL
CONGRATS to all the new gradutes! Way to go Sailors!!
Tex- GREAT news! San Antonio is a nice town to visit as well!
Got some news of our own this weekend - we're getting another grandbaby in December! This is the 2nd for our daughter, our grandson will be 3 on July 4th!
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Thank you all...I hope my son stays in San Antonio, but who knows, he''s on that "List" of people who go if needed...but I'll enjoy it while it's happening...and get the gutters cleaned, and the fence fixed, and the compost turned....geez, he'll be ready to deploy in no time if I do all that!
Stevenmom, my son was stationed at Camp Lajuene and went to train in Virginia, it wasn't forever, just several weeks, if I'm remembering correctly. That's actually where the Marines went down in the heat from my previous posts!
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Thanks, all...it still hasn't sunk in yet! I'm pretty pleased, this time last year I was on pins and needles and not sleeping with him in the sand, and now he'll be home on leave and then in San Antonio!
When Matt was in one of the schools, he was talking about giving shots, and I told him my mother ( a nurse for literally 50 years...) had her students practice on oranges, to get the wrist action...and he said "good idea"...then I asked what they practiced on ...."Marines". cracked me up. He is convinced he is the IV champ because of my mother's genes...he called one day , so excited! "Mom!! 14 Marines went down in the heat! I hit 8 IVs! One even arrested! it was GREAT..." yeah, son but not for his momma...( by the way the kid that arrested was fine...) Or when he called and had been hitting IVs in the air in the helicopters..."I'm good at this mom"...no ego there...I told him his grandma was sittin' on his shoulder....
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Things have changed for my son...no more NASCC, he'll be going to San Diego for Instructor's school, then on to San Antonio to work in the new Corpsman training facility...so even closer to home!! 67 miles from the base gate to my front door according to him!! What are the odds? and maybe he'll stop with the "I'm ready to deploy again, this is boring!"...because a couple of the corpsmen he was in the sand with are also doing the same thing...and since there are no instructor quarters, they will "have" to get an apartment together....life's tough, isn't it?
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Safe travels to your son Kathy! It is so hard for us moms to see our little birds fly from the nest, it just never gets any easier! :0)
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LOL - My son had PIR on Dec 24th and this Florida mom got to have a very cold, white Christmas! OK - just for a little while, got my butt back on a plane Christmas morning with my sailor and was quite happy to be back in the land of palm trees decorated with twinkly lights! The snow was pretty to see but sooo cold! My favorite part was when the sailors marched in all bundled up - I too was able to find my son right away as he's a tall boy as well! :0) Needless to say, it was a long cold A school for my Florida boy!
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So we can expect her for Thanksgiving, Inga? how cool!!!
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By the way...that banner headquarters is right here in Austin TX, I'm so proud of them! and I have a banner that reads "Welcome Home to our Texas Doc, we love you Matt..." or thereabouts, so if you have a Texas Doc coming home named Matt at anytime, I will be happy to share it...The kid insisted it was over the top for me to get it...but my friend snapped pics of him as he came down the escalator at the airport and you can see his eyes light up, and the glisten in them ....he was pleased! Boys...geez....
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Cathy - I live on the sunny gulf coast of FL! Just a tad south of where your son will be though! The beaches up that way are absolutely gorgeous, you definately need to visit! Not to worry, most of the sailors are in their 20's just a few older and they really do take them under wing!
Inga - If he finds a way to go right after C-school, he'll do it. He's a very determined young man. Time shall tell!
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