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

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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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Anyone with Sailors/Soldiers/Marines in War Zones and Combat Areas

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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 DJones on July 7, 2012 at 2:40pm: Mama Bear. Be proud of your daughter and let the crying out. It is definately therapeutic. I cried so many times for no reason when my son was there. Sometimes I would be out in public and just break down. It is normal. Those who have never been associated with the military really don't know what it is like. That's why you need to come on here. Not sure where you are from or live, but if you were here in DC I would get you out and do things with you. I had no one around who understood what I was going through. Just know we all care deeply and are thinking of you and your daughter daily.

Comment by TexasDocMom on July 7, 2012 at 9:34am: Cry with pride, Mama Bear, you're not alone...the Fourth brings out all those emotions and when you have a child in the military and certainly one deployed, those emotions are at the top..and like MT said, it IS good for you, gets the fear out, and makes you stronger in the long run.

My son is in LA, being best man for his best friend's wedding. And so I've been in tears as well, but so different to be crying from joy instead of fear. And thankful, that he's moving on with his life, and that he has friends like this one. This young groom was the one who would sit by my son's bed when he drove in from Lajuene, while my son slept, Sesar would sit and play the video games and just "watch " him. "gotta watch the kid" he'd say when I'd check on him. He'd stop by to check on us, too, when my son was gone...and now they have both found smart, beautiful young women (who knew those two bozos were that loveable/) and I'm seeing amazing photos from the last 3 days. South Austin hit LA! My point....is that there is a future, we don't know what it is, but it is there and there are happier days in it. And crying is always part of it when you're a mom.

Comment by Much Trouble on July 7, 2012 at 8:38am: Don't worry about the meltdown, Mama Bear...that is VERY normal, and in the long run, probably healthy for you. Anything like that gets to me under the best circumstances...and believe me, when my son was over there, anything patriotic would set me off. People couldn't understand why you were crying??? Hon...I wouldn't be able to understand if you were NOT crying!!! I'm sure you will hear from your daughter soon...

Comment by mama bear on July 7, 2012 at 6:56am: Hope everyone had a great fourth, I had a meltdown at our local parade when pass me by with the Flags being carried by the military of each branch than of coarse they had taps, and they payed a few more military songs. People couldn't understand why I was crying but all I could think of was my daughter serving her time in a dangerous place for her 1st deployment. I stood proud with tears rolling down my face. My husband, her dad refuse to go with me so I was all alone as usual because my son was in the parade for FFA, the entire day I was alone and my thoughts could not be turned off about her and wondering if she had any other effects from her ordeal with the bomb. Not knowing or being able to communicate much tears me up inside. jAny way Have a Great Day!

Comment by ktssong on July 6, 2012 at 5:02pm: Well, I am in Tennessee for my planned getaway so that I didn't spend the fourth feeling to glum. Wanted to come be around some friends. I got here and there is a drought and fireworks were cancelled and it seemed more glum than ever...haha.Oh well, making the best of it. My son is somewhere he cannot say right now, doing something he cannot say right now. I don't really have much to say. I will keep reading all of your comments because it helps so much. TexasDocMom....it was worth it to get on just now to see the little cartoon. It made me smile. I feel I'm in good company with other moms who feel the same...we can't get enough of our kids; they are our lives. Have a good day all.

Comment by TexasDocMom on July 6, 2012 at 11:09am: cancerthecrab, I'll ask my son what the scuttlebutt is on Africa....he was there on a Mediterranean cruise deployment with his Marines once. Some went in and built a school...

Comment by cancerthecrab on July 6, 2012 at 10:24am: My son got back from Afghanistan in February and made it home for a visit in March. I really didn't expect to see him again until possibly sometime in the fall, but got a wonderful birthday surprise when he showed up for my day. I wish I could do the same for him as his birthday is only a week after mine, but I am sure his buddies will take care of him. Anyways, he took the advancement test in March and passed and is now at E5, a CM2. He was telling me that when he deploys next he will probably go either back to Afghanistan and to Africa. We don't hear much about what our troops do in Africa; I have read that the Seabees build alot there. I wonder if its any safer there than Afghan...

Comment by TexasDocMom on July 5, 2012 at 9:39pm: I cracked up..."no, ma, we're in combat"...holy crap! I asked Debby if I should post it here and she said YES!!

cuz if we don't laugh, we'll cry all the damn time!

and now we know why there's no cell phones on deployments....

Comment by Much Trouble on July 5, 2012 at 9:12pm: OMG! TDM...You have me laughing so hard I can barely see to type! I love it!!! I tried so hard NOT to be like that...no matter how i felt in my heart. Thanks for the laugh...