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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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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!!

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Comment by ktssong on January 5, 2012 at 12:49am: Thank you. I will. That is good news. I usually do his income tax returns and he asked me to do them again this year before he goes. Do they get W2's from the Navy? And when he deploys, he wants to take his guitar with him. Do they allow them to take those? Anyone know?

Comment by TexasDocMom on January 5, 2012 at 12:45am: ktssong...there IS strength in numbers, you are not alone these next few months, and he'll be home for Christmas! maybe even Thanksgiving...two holidays, focus on that!

Comment by ktssong on January 5, 2012 at 12:39am: I don't know what to say except the time is coming soon to give one hug that will have to last 8 months. I'm looking forward to pouring my love onto my son in that hug but not looking forward to what this is preceding. I am having dreams and alot of anxiety. People tell me don't worry, he will be fine. I am praying and I have faith and I will trust God will go with him and his Battalion but I still am concerned. This is my youngest out of five and we've always been close so it feels like my heart is leaving with him. I know they are well trained and ready to go but it doesn't make it easier. He makes me proud and I hope I do the same as a mom and make him proud. To do this I will be popping on here more and more to gain strength from the numbers on here. God Be With Us this year.

Comment by Much Trouble on January 4, 2012 at 8:21pm: MalaMama, my son was also over there as an EO, and that was something he enjoyed. He LOVES working with heavy equipment, but he was in the reserves and his regular job was as a superintendent at the public library. He has told me many stories since he has been back, but unless I bring something up, he does NOT talk about the fighting. I know all about the "what ifs" and you have to tell those voices in your head to just shut up. Remind yourself that MOST of our guys and gals return physically and mentally intact. (If something does happen, we are here for that, also, but you might as well wait until that day...why put yourself through the horror over and over again.) When I see videos of our troops, I see highly trained professionals, but when I look at my son, I see a curly headed toddler in footie pajamas. Watch those videos and tell yourself that your baby boy is one of those professionals! I bet if you don't already have one, you will soon be putting out a flag. LOL

Most of all...remember, you are NOT "weird" and you are NOT losing your mind! You are a MOM...with normal Mom type thoughts. We will get you packing boxes and such...at least then you won't feel quite so helpless.

Comment by TexasDocMom on January 4, 2012 at 8:15pm: If I hear one more person say the stupid thing that since we pulled our troops finally out of Iraq that they thought there was "no more war", I'll throttle someone! I'll say this about the draft and Viet Nam, EVERYONE kept up with the war!

Someplace in that discussions unit is a blog I wrote when my son was deployed....about the numbness that takes over to keep you sane.

Comment by TexasDocMom on January 4, 2012 at 5:26pm: I don't know how the moms with multiple deployments as well as those moms with multiple kids with multiple deployments get out of bed in the mornings. Really.

A friend said to me the other day as we discussed my son leaving the Navy that now "you can leave it all behind and get out of 'those' groups." Truly, I love her, but she doesn't have a clue. I can probably walk away from the Corpsman mom's group because I'm twisting Inga's arm to take it and I don't have the up to date information for the new moms, altho I'll probably stay a member to send moms with deploying docs over here. But this one, this group is too important, at least to me. Every one of you carry such a burden, it's up to us that have "been there, done that" to help out, carry a little of the load.

I cannot tell you that you are not alone, unless I'm doing my share to make sure that is true...although I have perfect confidence in my moms/dads here on this board to always pay attention to this group until that day comes that we do not need it anymore.

Comment by Paymaster on January 4, 2012 at 4:48pm: Welcome Malamam and Mom 2nw.....Just remember there are no dumb questions here.

TexasDocMom say its best when this is the group no one wants to belong too.

My meltdown was late at night when I was home alone. It was on his third deployment.

Comment by TexasDocMom on January 4, 2012 at 3:52pm: Mom2nw.....it's the perfect place to mail from....my meltdown was in a Walmart over the bacon with an aunt whose nephew had just deployed (and who I had never ever met before..)...you'll hear a lot of meltdown stories here...it's what we do.

Believe me when I say...you are not alone!! and you'll be reaching out to other moms in a year or so to talk them through this same thing....unless a miracle happens and they all come home!

Comment by mom2nw on January 4, 2012 at 3:32pm: thanks everyone for the warm welcome. TDM...have a story about 'well' meaning comments that people make....About 2 months ago I was sending a package to one of my son's HS buddies in A'stan. The post office lady was commenting that her nephew came back 'not the same'--the experience changed him (DuH!). Suddenly I'm bawling in the post office and now she's trying to comfort me. Guess I can never mail a package from there again.