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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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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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For parents and loved ones of deployed and deploying military personnel...Aghanistan/Iraq and any and all war zones. Please introduce yourself on the main comment page.

Members: 116
Latest Activity: Jul 14, 2020

Anderson Hall is in San Antonio, on the campus of Fort Sam Houston...the place where future corpsman will learn their trade.

"Doc" Christopher Anderson served with Marine 1/6.

(He also went to Basic and to FMTB with my son. TDM)

Corpsmen on the job in Afghanistan:

Helpful Links:

National Resource Directory

The National Resource Directory (NRD) is a website which connects wounded warriors, service members, Veterans, and their families with those who support them.

It provides access to services and resources at the national, state and local levels to support recovery, rehabilitation and community reintegration.

Real Warriors The Real Warriors Campaign is an initiative launched by the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) to promote the processes of building resilience, facilitating recovery and supporting reintegration of returning service members, veterans and their families.

Absentee Voting Link Get info here on registering to vote and absentee voting.

Navy Individual Augmentee Information "IA"

Ombudsman Registry Find your sailor's unit and contact information

Seabee Info Web site Answers to many questions about deployment, etc even if your sailor is not a Seabee.

Fleet and Family Deployment Navy Facebook

Online Program Helps Military Vote Absentee

Guardian Angels for Soldiers Pets Facebook Page

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 for pets whose owners are being deployed.

****Red Cross and Help for the Military, Emergency Notificaton Link to the Red Cross Military Assistance page, on the left is a list of links to important sites, including the phone numbers if you need to notify your deployed loved one of a family emergency. This note: Beginning June 13, 2011, at 8:00 a.m. EDT, all military members and their
families can use one number- 877-272-7337 (U.S. Toll Free) to send an urgent
message to a service member. The change means that all military members and
their families can use this single number to initiate an emergency communication, regardless of where they live.

Coaching Into Care

Coaching Into Care works with family members or friends who become aware of their Veteran’s post-deployment difficulties—and supports their efforts to find help for the Veteran.

This is a national clinical service providing information and help to Veterans and the loved ones who are concerned about them.
Defense Center of Excellence information and help for TBI and PTS for active military, vets and their families.

After Deployment... This web site is VERY useful to service members, family and loved ones after the return of a loved one from deployment.

Military Pathways Facebook

To help those who may be struggling, the DoD teamed up with the nonprofit organization Screening for Mental Health to launch Military Pathways (TM), also known as the Mental Health Self-Assessment Program (MHSAP). The program is available online and at special events held at installations worldwide. Check us out at militarymentalhealth.com. It provides free, anonymous mental health and alcohol self-assessments for family members and service personnel in all branches including the National Guard and Reserve.

VAWatchdog.org Very useful links for our vets and their families.

Secondary PTSD Resource Link For families and loved ones of a soldier/sailor/Marine/airman with PTSD.

Military Slang Appendix

Facebook Support for OPSEC An online resource for OPSEC regs and questions concerning safety in social media web sites.

Graphic Novel Helps Corpsmen Cope with Combat-related Stress

Links to those sending packages to our deployed sailors/soldiers/marines/airmen:

Molly's Adopt A Sailor Group Join the group, or just read for ideas on what to send to your deployed kid.

Jacob's Program Another group of volunteers sending packages to our deployed folks.

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Comment by TexasDocMom on September 25, 2012 at 11:11am: No, they don't, or they didn't when I used it with my son. You basically email a letter (reasonably short and no photos, at least then), it's sent to the area's server, printed out and taken where ever they are and delivered. Granted, not as quickly in Iraq or Astan as it probably is aboard a ship, but still. It's handy if a dad or mom knows a child is ill in the US and has to go out on patrol, etc....I just dropped "thinking about you " news gossip stuff, so he'd get mail on patrol. I'd be interested to hear how or if it works with these classified destination deployments.

Comment by JerseySusan on September 25, 2012 at 10:59am: TexasDoc, I never heard of that until I just clicked on the site you provided. Is that something they have to sign up as well on their end?

Comment by TexasDocMom on September 25, 2012 at 10:00am: Does anyone still use Moto Mail ?

Comment by TexasDocMom on September 25, 2012 at 9:59am: Just spoke with a Marine wife here at the rec center (she's taking a course here at our community college) and she said it sounds like a phone card. She said the phone banks in A do have someone telling you "you have 10minutes" etc but it didn't do it repeatedly.

Mail address...it follows the unit.

Comment by JerseySusan on September 25, 2012 at 9:36am: Mamawalrus, it sounds like your son used a "pre-paid" phone card, & that was the remaining minutes/seconds left on the card?

Comment by mamawalrus on September 25, 2012 at 12:22am: ktssong.. wow, I can feel the emotion through the pictures. I can almost feel the hugs being shared there. Thank you for sharing.. ;)

I should clarify.. the phone was not cut off per say but it had a timer. This voice would come on and say you have 2 min remaining, you have 30 seconds remaining and so on....I was just curious why that was set up?

Stil curious on if the mail address is somewhat close to where are usually stationed at?

Comment by julieb1019 on September 24, 2012 at 7:08pm: KTSSONG thanks so much for sharing your photos what a special moment and to have had such a special reunion is just wonderful.

Comment by julieb1019 on September 24, 2012 at 7:05pm: I had no phone call after all I went through this weekend but I am so happy that so many of you did get to talk to your kids. I also have a much closer relationship with my son after I spend time with him right before he was deployed. H e expressed so many emotions and fears that for the first time I felt like he really opened and actually said I love you too instead of love you too. That really meant something to me so TDM I can see how the service is life changing and that our kids need us in different ways now than ever before soI will stand tall and be there for him when he does call agin which I hope will be sooner than later...

Comment by TexasDocMom on September 24, 2012 at 11:48am: Long range benefit from son's deployment: he was never a "sappy guy" full of endearments (surprise, surprise)...but when he called from Iraq...I heard, "I love you mom" every call...and pretty much every call ever since...one time when he was CL, he called me back to say "I forget to tell you I love you, mom". I am delighted and had to ask why..."you talk a lot on deployment, mom, about the people you love and who love you and how horrible we were to our moms as teenagers..." Now, he was no angel, but he was no really bad guy either, the regular stuff...I had to smile. And be glad to hear that comment every time we speak, still.

Comment by Kym Ship 11 Div 118 on September 24, 2012 at 10:33am: Did anyone else see the special report last night on NBC about the 3/8 in Mariah? I think there is more to come. Nice to see where our boys are.