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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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:

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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

Events

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

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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Corpsman Moms

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

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!!  

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 pinsShipboard 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-WEST Camp Pendleton, CA

FMTB-West on Facebook

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

FMF camp lejuene

Started by nikki. Last reply by CorpsmanMom Jul 15, 2018. 2 Replies

Best duty stations for FMF Corpsmen

Started by sockmonkey Jan 20, 2018. 0 Replies

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Comment by Sharon P.M. on April 9, 2009 at 5:09pm
Lebanon! That's where my Dad was!
Comment by TexasDocMom on April 9, 2009 at 4:40pm
My son served in the same Marine unit in the sand that my brother, 50 years ago, served with as a Marine...what are the odds? Both at one point ended up sitting outside of Lebanon when it was trying to implode, seems some things just stay the same.
Comment by Sharon P.M. on April 9, 2009 at 4:38pm
I was able to paste it into an e-mail to him but I also saved it as a document. My Dad was attached to a Marine unit before Vietnam, but he did see combat, I just have a brain fart at the moment and can't remember which one, geeze, I swear I'm having the onset of alzheimers
Comment by TexasDocMom on April 9, 2009 at 4:33pm
you might have to save it, I couldn't get it to copy and paste, but feel free, I got this one off the internet someplace, the one his friend posted was not in frame like this one.

The corpsman who wrote it was in Viet Nam.
Comment by Sharon P.M. on April 9, 2009 at 4:31pm
That is downright AWESOME! I'm copying and pasting in a message to my son. Thanks so much for sharing Tex! BTW, my dad was a Corpsman as well so you might say my son in carrying on a family tradition!
Comment by TexasDocMom on April 9, 2009 at 4:26pm


One of the corpsmen in my son's class posted this on my son's myspace back around their graduation from A school.
Comment by TexasDocMom on April 9, 2009 at 4:07pm
Yes, I wouldn't mention any disparaging remarks about corpsmen, aka Docs, to any Marine, active, retired or a vet....

Ships named in honor of a Hospital Corpsman
Reference: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships

USS Caron (DD-970)
USS David R. Ray (DD-971)
USS Valdez (FF-1096)
USS Benfold (DDG-65)
USS De Wert (FFG-45)
USS Francis Hammond (FF-1067)
USS Daniel A. Joy (DE-585)
USS Don O. Woods (APD-118)
USS Durant (DER-389) *Also sailed as USCGC Durant
USS Frament (APD-77)
USS Jobb (DE-707)
USS Liddle (DE-206)
USS Thaddeus Parker (DE-369)
USS Walter C. Wann (DE-412)
USS Henry W. Tucker (DD-875)
USS Jack Williams (FFG-24)
USS John Willis (DE-1027)
USS Lester (DE-1022)
USS Halyburton (FFG-40)
USS Litchfield (AG-95)

U.S. Navy Enlisted Medical Personnel Killed in Action
American Civil War (1861-1865), 6
Spanish-American War (1898), 3
World War I (1917-1918), 20
Nicaragua (1932), 1
World War II (1941-1945), 1,170
Korean War (1950-1954), 108
Dominican Republic (1965), 1
Vietnam War (1962-1975), 638
Beirut, (1983), 15
First Gulf War (1990-1991), 0
Afghanistan (2001–present), 7
Iraq War (2003-present), 30
Total, 1,999

Decorations of Valor Awarded to Hospital Corpsmen
Medal of Honor, 28
Navy Cross, 174
Distinguished Service Cross (United States Army), 31
Silver Star, 946
Bronze Star, 1,582

Hospital Corpsmen who received the Medal of Honor
Pre-World War I

Hospital Apprentice Robert H. Stanley, USN (Boxer Rebellion)
Hospital Apprentice First Class William Zuiderveld, USN (Veracruz Incursion)
Hospital Apprentice Fred H. McGuire, USN (Philippine Insurrection)
Hospital Steward William S. Shacklette, USN (Boiler Explosion in San Diego)
World War I
Pharmacist's Mate First Class John H. Balch, USN
Hospital Apprentice First Class David E. Hayden, USN
World War II
Hospital Apprentice First Class Robert Eugene Bush, USN
Pharmacist's Mate 2nd Class William D. Halyburton, Jr., USNR
Hospital Apprentice First Class Fred F. Lester, USN
Pharmacist's Mate First Class Francis J. Pierce, USN
Pharmacist's Mate Second Class George E. Wahlen, USN
Pharmacist's Mate Third Class Jack Williams, USN
Pharmacist's Mate First Class John H. Willis, USN
Korean War
Hospital Corpsman Third Class Edward C. Benfold, USN
Hospital Corpsman Third Class William R. Charette, USN
Hospitalman Richard D. Dewert, USN
Hospitalman Francis C. Hammond, USN
Hospitalman John E. Kilmer, USN
Vietnam War
Hospital Corpsman Second Class Donald E. Ballard, USN
Hospital Corpsman Third Class Wayne M. Caron, USN
Hospital Corpsman Third Class Robert R. Ingram, USN
Hospital Corpsman Second Class David R. Ray, USN


Navy Corpsmen are the most highly medaled rank in the military. Any Marine in service or out would step in front of a bullet to save a Doc, without question.

One of the proudest moments in my life was my son telling me he was entering the Navy, where my father made his career, to serve his CHOICE as a Navy Corpsman, because my mother was a nurse for 50 years and "it's in my genes."

Am I over reacting, probably, but I'm damned proud of my Doc. I know the Marines he was in the sand with were damned glad he served by their side and didn't consider himself too good to do so.
Comment by Sharon P.M. on April 9, 2009 at 12:16pm
Amy - I'm going to go with the baby is growing fast, cause if she's rowing fast, we're all in big trouble! LOL! She sure is a cutie pie!
Comment by Sharon P.M. on April 9, 2009 at 12:15pm
Terri - he's Bravo class also! He only knows his orders because he was offered C school in San Diego and he signed up for that, then a few days later his Chief told him he had put him in for the surgery tech C school in VA, he had to go to see the counselor (or whatever they call the people that keep the paperwork straight) to sign some forms and she confirmed that his orders had been signed and he's going to VA. He said he had to sign some more stuff yesterday too. On the bright side, the 13th is Monday! :0) You must live not too far from GL, huh? That's great that your son got to come home for the weekend! They were so excited to finally be on phase 3! :0)
Comment by Sharon P.M. on April 8, 2009 at 8:48pm
Warm welcome to all the newbies! Hope this site is as good to you as it is to me!
Amy - LOVE the new picture! :0)
 
 
 

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