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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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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 TexasDocMom on June 28, 2012 at 12:45am
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Good news, Dawn! thanks for letting us know...sleep well tonight, mom....and don't wait until you're climbing walls to stop by, someone will always be home here....you are not alone.
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Ladies, I just have a moment right now...but I have to say one thing ...PLEASE come here when you're going into those rough patches, it's why we're here, it's what we do. I've been really nervous about how quiet it has been, please know there is nothing you can say or do that is going to be greeted with anything but compassion and love. We cry, we laugh, we scream, we meltdown...and you are not alone while you are doing any of those things.
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Comment by mama bear on June 27, 2012 at 6:20pm
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Haven't been on for awile but I think of anyone everyday and say a prayer for all. I have been going through some ruff patches myself. I started having nightmares about my daughter in Afganistan. This is her first deployment. It seems like everynight the nightmares start earlier and earlier, leaving me with little or no sleep. Sometimes I wish I could have these meltdowns everyone talks about but I just hold in. I can't hardly read a newspaper for fear there will be something in the paper about the fighting. I know no news is good news but when you are worry wort like myself that doesn't help. How do I get past these night mares.
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Comment by DJones on June 26, 2012 at 3:59pm
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Dawn, let the crying come. I had many meltdowns. I didn't hear from my son for a week and it was because they were stuck in a sandstorm and had to stay put where they were and sleep on the desert floor. He'll call. I know it is hard and words alone cannot help. Realize we have all gone through the same feelings or are going through them now. I had good days and bad days. Stay busy and stay on this site to communicate with people who understand what you are going through. I will be thinking of you.
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Dawn, I wish there were magic words to help you...probably, quite frankly, the meltdown and the tears helped as much as anything. And really, no news IS good news, because if anything has happened, you would know right away. In Iraq, I went a month without hearing from my son, and that was probably the time he talks about with no shower and the same clothes on his body, altho he made everybody change socks! So, you do the drill, make the list and keep it by your phone of all the things you want to tell him about happening at home, about the dog and the neighbors and his buddies at home because you will forget then he calls....I painted bedrooms, all 3 of them...walk the dog, dig a garden, start water aerobics, volunteer at the hospital, do family history, stay busy, very busy. Keep the box open on the dining room table, and keep filling it up and mailing it off. He is busy, he is well trained, he is doing the job, and all we can do at home is wait. He will call. His voice will sound different and just the same all at the same time.
I'm sorry, so sorry it's so tough right now, but you are not alone, there are moms waiting with you, and it will get better.
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One of our mom's has a corpsman who wrote today : "I have my FMF murder board on Sunday, I'm not ready! I thought it would be next week! But if all goes well I'll be FMF qualified on July 6th." Think the good thought for this Doc!!
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One of our mom's has a corpsman who wrote today : "I have my FMF murder board on Sunday, I'm not ready! I thought it would be next week! But if all goes well I'll be FMF qualified on July 6th." Think the good thought for this Doc!!
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So close to coming home, that family must be destroyed....blessings to them, prayers for strength for them and for those with whom Gino served, so they stay focused and come home without any more losses.
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My heart goes out to their family, Susan. My son lost two close friends on his recent tour. It breaks my heart for him and for these families. I to just want to see them all come home now.
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I heard nothing about US or allied troops being injured in that quake, it was very rural, but you can probably bet US troops are on the job there doing rescue. The RSS news feed above this box reported it on Thurs and Friday. Always check there first for any news about Afghanistan.
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