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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
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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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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 D~W~G on August 8, 2012 at 9:03am
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Praying for all your sons/duaghters and families.
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Comment by ktssong on August 7, 2012 at 11:57pm
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I appreciate that...I will pick the book up. I got a call from my son this morning and he told me himself so I'm thinking it's a good sign that he told me...we talked for almost an hour. I didn't know that they were coming to get him today by helicopter and take him back inside wire..I'm now even more concerned thinking it's worse than I thought. Maybe it's standard procedure after they counsel them or evaluate to take them back to get more assistance...do they contact families over this? Is that crazy for me to ask? I don't know what to ask. I feel like I'm trying to hold his wife together, and keep encouraging him and then I'm thinking my emotions are being held back because my brain knows that I can't lose it because I gotta hold it together to get her down there and keep her positive that he is going to be fine...if all the anxiety of being there to welcome them home and waiting on right dates isn't enough, I think this took my anxiety level up tons.
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Comment by TexasDocMom on August 6, 2012 at 11:27am
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Ktssong, it's a big boat. And we're all in it together....I'm going to look over that site on secondary PTS, I know my son is safe, and I still can't stop worrying. I don't know how you moms with kids still deploying stay sane, I really don't.
Want to mention this book called Until Tuesday to you. Here's a link to its website: http://until-tuesday.com/ I've read parts of it, my son's GF gave it to me for my birthday last year. I've been unable to read all of it, because where this soldier was stationed early on is where my son was based in Iraq as well...and altho it was not as intense as what this soldier went through I hated my son even being there. Tuesday is a service dog....he saved this soldier's sanity. I have several friends on Facebook working to get dogs out of shelters and in the hands of vets.
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My son called today and talked to my daughter in law. He didn't get a chance to pass the phone around like he wanted and he had to get off but he did say he is going through a rough time also and didn't want us to know. She hopes he tells me. She cried. I just told her that we would get through this and that I was reading up on PTSD last night also..They have a dog and one story I read said that pets are a great help because they help a soldier calm down by stroking the dog with a petting movement is a calming effect and that a pet comforts and doesn't talk just responds and that it helps them get out to get fresh air by having a need to go out so that helps to. So I'm hoping when he gets home the dog helps in recovery time too.I followed the link TexasDocMom put on and it helped. I just suddenly feel in the same boat. They did say he got some help there by talking to someone and gave him the day off to rest and he said that helped. But he is apparently feeling short tempered, tired and "feeling not himself"..I pray Dear God, bring them home soon and help them all recover....THey've worked so hard. I just feel numb today. Like I should be crying or feeling something and I'm just feeling like I wish I didn't hear what I heard and hope it isn't serious and praying that when I show up for homecoming I can say the right things....So I'm ending this comment with also a prayer for my son. Thank you moms
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Dj, I am going to be praying for your son. God Bless him. I just know, when no one else is around, God is always around..I am praying for a touch on you too...I just can feel your concerns when I read this...I would feel the same as you if it were me...I think this is the concern of all of us for our sons...I hope he also keeps in touch and just keep encouraging him...He's going to get through this...We have to keep hope and faith and I don't want to sound preachy but when I know I can't be where my child is, I ask God to send someone, just put him in the path of someone that will be a big help so I'll pray that for your son too...Keep us posted....it will get better.
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DJ, just wondering how you're doing today? poking around facebook, I found another page....https://www.facebook.com/VeteransMTC
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Support groups on facebook have a lot of good information, and sharing it pretty freely.
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DJones, I'm no expert but those folks on those web sites listed above us are, please utilize them. That's why they are there...they have the answers to your questions about how to help your son, please let us know what they say and if they help you or if we can do anything to help you in any way. Check that "secondary PTSD" link, it's important to help yourself as well....xo, thinking of you.
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Comment by DJones on August 1, 2012 at 9:17am
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So even though my son is home, it is not over. He is really having some issues and I am so scared. He called me at 2 a.m very upset. I knew he had been drinking and he says he cannot sleep without drinking as it helps him sleep. He has nightmares and has become very anxious. He has never had an issue with anxiety before. He is getting out in 5 months and I am scared to death he will be another military member shoved to the curb. He has an appt. today for PTSD, but he needs to be going weekly, not once a month. I am afraid he is going to use alcohol as an outlet and afraid he will not be able to adjust to civilian life. I feel like having a breakdown as I am 3000 miles away. It would be nice to know if anyone else has these issues and would like to talk. I am physically ill over this. He says all his friends have changed. Most have or are getting out so he is having to deal with his deployment friends moving.
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