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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.
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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.
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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:
It provides access to services and resources at the national, state and local levels to support recovery, rehabilitation and community reintegration.
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 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.
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.
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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To all who drop by! WELCOME! please post below so we can get to know you. If you send a message around to 'all members' , we CANNOT respond. So, please introduce yourself below, and remember to not share dates or specfic movements by any military unit on the board! Thank you!! and again WELCOME!!
Discussion Forum
Son in Spin Boldak
Started by rysony. Last reply by rysony Mar 14, 2012. 40 Replies 0 Likes
Care Packages - lists of items, how to order priority boxes and how to fill out customs forms
Started by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom. Last reply by millon4 Oct 2, 2012. 29 Replies 1 Like
Sailors in Afghanistan with boots on the ground
Started by Ruth, Gun's Mom. Last reply by TexasDocMom Sep 18, 2010. 18 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by JerseySusan on September 19, 2012 at 7:05pm
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I'm right with you vansmom. I am new to this site also..:((( Our son just left last week & I never knew what it was like to feel the same way you do. I can't get rid of that lump in my throat & feel nausea everyday, I cry at different times of the day, not to sure what triggers it.....I use to be an avid news watcher, but avoid it for now.
Thanks Chief88 for all your suggestions.
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Comment by julieb1019 on September 19, 2012 at 7:03pm
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Chief88 Thanks for your support and inspiration. This is the perfect message to send to us today. I too am a part of this group and just a few weeks into it. Got the i am here call and then missed calls 2 weeks in a row. I take comfort in the fact that he sounded great in his messages and that I can replay them any time I need to hear his voice. Vansmom we all are always here to lend hugs and support to each other so that we can get through the many hard months to come .
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Comment by vansmom on September 19, 2012 at 5:39pm
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Hi, I just joined your group and wanted to say hello. This is probably the group I never thought I'd actually ever be joining! But here I am and my son left today. I am not in such a great mood so I thought I'd just introduce myself and I am in for the long haul so I hope some of you may be able to help me. :-/
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Comment by mikes mom on September 16, 2012 at 4:11pm
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TDM thank you for posting that letter it was like reading my own sons when he was in Afg... brought tears to my eyes .
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Comment by TexasDocMom on September 16, 2012 at 3:32pm
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Another Molly Adopt A Sailor post from facebook, you will really relate to this one! One of our Navy moms just posted this for us to see, I asked if I could repost for you all !!! SO HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE --Here is something very priceless for you to read :)
US ARMY Infantry -------WWII Deployed
Below is a letter from my dad to his mother during World War II - dated 3 March 1945 - France - I thought you might enjoy it - although the times have changed---the requests from our young men overseas does not seem to change.
Dear Mom - Surprise - you are getting another letter from me. I'll try not to be a wayward son and write more often. Everything here is okay with me. The situation is looking up and I am brushing up on my Russian. Spring is in the air. I bet the kids (his siblings) must be glad the cold weather is letting up. I would give almost anything I had right now to wander through a California orange grove and eat until I was so full I couldn't move. I would also like to take a trip to Mt. Baldy. That is going to be one of the first things I do when I get home. Pack up Pug and a picnic lunch and take off for a day in the mountains. Mt. Baldy is my first love. Then I am just going to roam the downtown streets of Los Angeles and listen to the people talk.
I am going to enclose my usual request for a box. Nothing in particular, except something good to eat and all you can cram into it. Candy bars, cookies, etc. Packaged cookies are good and keep well. They would also save you time and trouble as far as making them and my little "four legged devil" couldn't get at them. Ditto on candy bars and packaged candy. Fruit cake is another item that the fellows have all been getting and sure is good as long as it lasts. You see, when a box comes in it is almost as good as public property. The approved procedure is as follows: To wit, carefully remove the string and wrappings and tenderly lift the cover. This is accompanied by a chorus of "ohs" and "Ahs" and "what, no whiskey?" Then you remove all personal items and a sample of everything and a few items you particularly like. This is jealously watched by everyone to make sure you don't cheat. Then you step back quickly if you don't want to get stamped to death. If you are lucky and there are only a few fellows around there might be something left. That is what it is like when a package arrives.
Well, mom, I'll close for now. Take care of yourself and keep every thing the same at home until I return. The dawn of today brings me one day closer to home.
You ever loving son, Bill.
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With all the discussion we've had over the last day's events, it reminds me to remind everyone about OPSEC, especially if you have a loved one in a war zone. Can anyone trace your page here back to your son or daughter serving in a war zone (or anyplace else, for that matter)? Is your son or daughter's facebook page shut down to the public? Take a look at these rules from the Navy on social media, which includes N4M and Facebook pages: Navy and social media
Please remind your son or daughter to shut that page down to anyone except those on their friends list, and to remember that what they post on FB is a reflection of them and the US Navy. And the Navy thinks that way as well. Follow their example and shut your social media pages down as well. I know for a fact that I can follow at least one mom's page to their son/daughter. If I can do it, so can someone who does not have your or your child's best interest at heart.
No names, locations, unit names, dates of arrival/departures, confidential conversations from your child, none here on this group please. If any one is out to do harm to a Navy family, we do not want that information coming from this page. Loose Lips Sink Ships.
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I think the 133 BEE post on fb book was a classic look at how to do OPSEC correctly...
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Comment by Much Trouble on September 15, 2012 at 11:55am
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Welcome Gram...There are many nice sites on N4M, but this one saved my sanity. When my son was sent to Afghanistan, I found I had no patience with the Moms crying about their baby leaving home for the first time. People wanted to kill MY baby! Thank God for this site where others knew how I felt!!! Yes...The homecomings are very important to us...and the funny part is I get teary eyed over ALL of them. After walking the walk with the Moms, their kids became my kids. Please stop by often. Right now we seem to be in "crisis mode", but there are times we laugh until our stomachs hurt.
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Gram! welcome to the group no one wants to join...I have a feeling that my next stint in the military might be as a grandmother, or possibly the great aunt...so never to old to know that you are not alone!
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Comment by Gram IN on September 15, 2012 at 11:08am
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Hi! i just found this site. I have a deployed, Corpsman grandson that I follow these sites for info on . I have Marine sites but my daughter reminded me of N4M's, was following it all the time while he was in GL and then he went to SA for Corpsman school. Then to LJ for Greenside training. So glad to find this site, love reading your posts and feeling the love and support for all. He is Afghanistan now but at a forward base. Praying for all at this time of unrest. The homecoming pics bring tears - can't wait !
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