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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
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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 February 27, 2012 at 5:56pm
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Found a series of these on youtube...
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Maria, welcome to the group no one wants to join...we're here whenever you need us....only Doc for 32..wow!
Drop by anytime! you are not alone...someone else will be by shortly, I'm sure! we manage to stay on top of this group pretty well....take care of you!
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ktssong, last year with shingles, I went from shingles to the worst cold (and the first I had had in years!) I think this falls into the "if you are emotionally happy, you will be physically well" catagory. And everytime I started to exercise again, the shingles pain would resurface....finally getting better and the saticia kicked in. But I'm determined to get healthy all over and drop this 15 lbs that have happened since the shingles episode.
We are here for you! and yes deployment will wear and wear on you....and the beauty is that your son is not here to see your health but he can hear your voice and you can be the support you want to be. Keep the humor in your soul, and it will help...and yep, we're right here! are you on facebook? it's a great way to interact with people when you can't get out and about!
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Comment by ktssong on February 26, 2012 at 12:33pm
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Susan I'm very happy for you too that your son is back. I can't imagine having two over there. I already feel like with one, that I may as well be there because all my thoughts and dreams seem to be there. I am glad to hear that for you. Congratulations.
Well, I checked in because I think here is the one place everyone can understand how exhausting deployment is. I really went into this being very optimistic and had a great plan to be a strong support system to my son. Key word "strong". Since he left one month ago this week I have had shingles for three weeks and now I've caught strep throat. I really feel positive in my mind but my body is not getting the message. I still send boxes to him and feel like a good support system but I wouldn't necessarily call me "strong" compared to what I expected of myself. Please tell me that this is common and that strength comes with time. That's what I'm telling me.
I'm still checking in here every couple days and reading comments. I'd say this is probably the best therapy for a mom that I could ask for. Also prayer and exercising. But my body has made it impossible to exercise and impossible for me to be around people due to being contagious. I feel bad for the people I work with. They've been subjected to everything I have before we know I had it. They are being really good about it except for Friday at work when the strep and cough started they said....get out of here. I have to laugh about the fact that my plan to be around people to stay positive has blown up and I'm isolated alot. Oh well that's why I wanted to get on here and say "it's me again"...glad you are all here. Hope everyone else is healthy. PS...Pray I keep finding the humor in this.
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Susan!!!!!!! whowhoooo!! congrats, Mom....half the worry is better than double the worry...at least for today! hope you hear from your Marine soon.....
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Comment by DJones on February 25, 2012 at 9:08am
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docsmom, do you mean Georgetown, MD or Texas. I am assuming Texas, but just wanted to know as I live 5 miles from Georgetown, MD.
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Oh, hell, yeah! that's just down the road!! How cool is that?
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Inga and a couple of other moms and I have another group here on N4M. I will warn you that you might not agree with our politics, but if we want to discuss this uprising in A, it might be better done there, so we can post news articles and express opinions. I've posted one thing about this there, I don't want to flood this group with articles, because I do know sometimes it helped me to avoid the news in tough days.
All are welcome. Just remember that there are women right in this group that do not agree with one another politically but come here with the same goal of supporting one another and remain apolitical here.
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I agree an apology was needed, but it really is time to come home. I am sick to death with worry as the protesting is escalating and my son travelled to another base and now has to drive back on one of the most dangerous roads there. I think this really should be a wake up call to pull out. I hate having our troops so much at risk right now. It is not worth it. Karzai should have publicly apologized for the killing of two Americans. Where is it? I'm sorry, but I don't think I have ever been this angry or worried.
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ktssong...thank you for sharing your phone call with us! so good to have some positive news on here this morning when I saw the notification! I think you did just perfect on that phone call...your son sounds like mine, he wanted to hear your voice and those words of love. My son would say "we'll talk about it when I get home"....and he did. He didn't want to say much over the phone, and he did not want to say anything to me to make me worry more (like that could happen).
Also glad to hear the shingles are improving. I hope you don't have any on going pain from this episode. I had some pain in the gall bladder area, which flared up occasionally for a few months. Sounds like you are doing the things you need to do for you to keep healthy and thinking as positive as possible. Thank you for sharing how it's working for you.
Eurekamom, that ball package was a stroke of genius! I'm sharing that one!! Maybe we should stick that up in the care packages discussion. I found writing a great release, still do...as you can all tell from my babbling on here....and your son gets the benefit! They say letters get there faster than packages, too.
DJ, keep us updated on how your son is doing, we are all so worried about the upheaval from that burning...extra prayers and positive energy headed towards our folks in Afghanistan. I'm thankful that our President is doing the right diplomatic things that will hopefully make the Afghan government work harder to stop the demonstrations and actions toward the foreign troops there.
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