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
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Current admins Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom and TexasDocMom
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Location: All over this world!
Members: 1064
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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 January 17, 2009 at 11:40pm
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It's an individual contract with each sailor. Many only enlist for two years.
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Comment by Sharon P.M. on January 16, 2009 at 5:42pm
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Way to go Cory! Marianne, better get your passport if you don't already have one! :0)
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Hi Sue! I know they have a lot of Sailors in the corpsman program, but it seems to me our sons just might wind up being in some classes together. I know we can't say what baracks and what not our sailors are in but I can tell you my son is Devin, he's the tall blonde kid from FL! Wonder if they know each other?
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Congrats Marianne on your son's graduation! My son is hoping to hear they get to class up so he can start his corpsman schooling next week! I didn't know they had a graduation that we could attend. I'm sure your beaming with pride this morning!
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My son's best friend was in Japan as a Marine for a long time...he saw some great things, had some fun, but said to go alot of places they had to be supervised and go in a group.
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Janice, I'm so moved by your post and the first thing that got me was your son safely home from Afghanistan. Safely home. Isn't that the most wonderful feeling? My son's picture is on my page, taken by Cher, right after he was boots down in NC in November. The sight of that picture, even after hearing his voice, absolutely took my breath away. His face, his boots on US soil. Safe and sound. Please thank your son for his service, and for coming home safe and sound.
We all know that there are no unimportant jobs in the military, every single one is important. But I bet if you ask one of our fellow military moms, a Marine's mom who sits by her son's bedside as he recovers from a war wound, who has the most important job, she'll tell you it was that corpsman that carried him out of danger.
And yet, they are still our kids...same smile, same wise ass mouths, but they hug harder, don't they? and they've never complain about getting hugs...
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Corpsmen in combat stories
This is just one link on the role a corpman will play in a Marine unit.
Be prepared to have Marine vets you meet on the street and elsewhere tell you when you share your son's job with them..."They are the toughest SOBs around" (and that's the most family friendly one you might hear..). If you go dig into my blogs, there are stories there that I share about corpsman and my thoughts when my son was deployed. But one refrain that kept going across my mind when I was the most just plain scared when my son was in Iraq, was that guy that told me my son, my little blonde boy who always held the teacher's hand because he was the youngest in the class..., my son was a one tough SOB or he wouldn't be a Navy Doc. I counted on it. I blessed him and all the others that looked me in the eye and told me how much respect and love that they had for corpsman. "A special breed.." one said..."every Marine will take a bullet for the Doc."
The difference between a hospital corpsman and a field corpsman training, per my son...is in the hospital, you focus on opening an airway, getting that patient air...and as a field corpsman, you focus on getting to the Marine, using a cord to tie off any bleeding you see, throwing him over your shoulder and running like hell to the next safe spot, where you do it again. You will be amazed at the size of your son's legs when he is a field corpsman ( or daughters, sorry , Inga!) they are strong. And they learn and do the same jobs as their Marines, they can handle the guns and carry their medical gear. Tough. SOBs.
Your children have made a life changing decision, becoming a field corpsman. They live in the a no man's land...not Navy, not Marine, a Doc. They stick together, they handle their Marines, and they mature at an amazing rate.
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
Very elite group of patriots.
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I will keep all of our Sailors in my prayers!
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My dad was a Corpsman and he was attached to a Marine Unit, my son has said he wouldn't mind doing that either. Does your son know how long he trains with the Marines? I hear that when they are attached to a Marine Unit they have the option to wear either uniform. I also have a dear friend who is a Marine Vietnam Veteran and he told me not to worry about my son if he gets attached to a Marine Unit, he said the Marines love their Corpsmen and take care of them well.
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Congrats Sherry! Ok now tell me what is FMTB West?!?
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