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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.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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Navy Speak
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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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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:
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 TexasDocMom on February 15, 2012 at 10:02pm
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Ktssong...do not take anything personally, if it was you, I can't remember now,...I just have to make the Public Service Announcement when we get new folks here, it's critical that those jerks who prey on worried moms and dads do not connect up with any one in our group.
Malamama...your son is maturing leaps and bounds right now, it's now all the training pays off, watching, learning, feeling but doing the job....bless his heart. Just bless his heart. All of them....and all of yours as well.
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Comment by ktssong on February 14, 2012 at 11:37pm
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TexasDocMom...I deleted my comment in case there was something in it that was not following rules....so, back to the socks...even though it said cold weather and are thick, they will use them in hot weather too? That's awesome.
I'm finally feeling better and not so sick. I think the communications have helped my stress level calm down. It really is theraputic to pick up things to ship them and box them up and ship them out. I feel like it can brighten his day. I've learned so much from the moms on here and all the suggestions of what to send have been right on target. He has been so happy to get the boxes. I feel like this is why NavyforMoms is so important. They need our support and we help each other do that and help each other hold it together so we can be strong Navy Moms. Happy Valentines Day Moms!
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Please do not be specific in this group about where and with whom your sailor/soldier/marine serves. I understand it's on facebook, but this is NavyForMoms and we follow OPSEC. As members of this group we have no connection with facebook and we do not want ANYONE to be able to connect a family here at home and a sailor/soldier/marine deployed on foreign soil together...for whatever purposes. Please use Personal message or private email to share those things.
The administrators of this site will come to delete posts with too much information in them. Thanks.
(yes, that's my job, being the bitch...and I take it very seriously. No one is finding out anything about any of you or your kids in this group Loose lips sink ships..)
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Ktssong...those sccks are not just for cold weather, my son was in Iraq from the spring to the fall....they are for anytime they are not walking in actual water/rivers etc....
Happy Valentines to you...and all of you who are getting messages and phone calls, I'm so happy for you!!
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Welcome! vansmom! I'd just ask you to be non specific about times, dates of arrivals/departures, past or present, and your son's rank and job and name. We do follow OPSEC as well as watch out for those that would troll these support web sites for potential victims using the information found here about us or our kids for illegal purposes.
I had a friend with that same job who deployed a while back, he said he was bored to tears most of the time...and ended up coming home on a medical thing because he over exerted himself in the weight room and got a pneumothorax...now out on a medical discharge! I always think that bored on deployment is a good thing.
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Comment by vansmom on February 13, 2012 at 2:52pm
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HI everyone, my son just took a GSA to Afghanistan....hasn't even left his ship yet, (on deployment right now in 5th fleet) and come in on Feb 27th to San Diego, come home for a bit, back on ship to school then leaves for Afghanistan the week of my birthday in August. I know it's early, but I thought I'd join now to meet everyone and see what to expect. I'm a little worried. He is an "IT". He's said he wanted to go to help his career and he loved being on the VBSS team on his ship which helped fee the Iranian hostages in the news recently....I'm not sure what to expect!
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Hello, Barbara C! and welcome to the group no one wants to join, but you'll find plenty of moms and a few dads that stick around after their sailors/marines/soldiers/airmen are all home safe and sound to pay it forward by giving you the support you will need. Please post as you feel like it, do not hold back, we are here, you are not alone...we'll share your worries and fears, and your laughter, tears, your meltdowns and joyous reunions. Let us know how we can help you...
Prayers and positive thoughts that each of you hear from that kid today....
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Comment by Barbara C on February 13, 2012 at 1:44am
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Hi,
My son just arrived in Afghanistan.
Thanks for all of your comments. I am reading them to learn more about what to send him.
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Denise!! so glad that "the hug" is in your future so soon!! and now...we have another experienced mom to help with those new to this stuff....hug that "Hero" of yours for all the moms on this board, please.
Chief!! I'm going to try to copy/paste your post over to the discussions area, it contains a world of important information!! thank you!!!!
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Chief is the beef jerky expert!! she'll give you all info..but I think she makes hers....Do they have an electric skillet? slow cooker? anything like that? send velveeta cheese, rotel tomatoes in a can, and some kind of chips...maybe pringles in a can?
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