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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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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
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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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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 ktssong on December 20, 2011 at 1:19am
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Not looking forward to anything lately, it just means deployment for my son is coming closer and closer. It's his first and I'm very uneasy. I'm trying to keep my faith strong and asking God to help me just totally trust Him with my son's life and his Battalions. This is soooo hard. It's easy to say when things aren't difficult but when you are facing real life danger then it's a challenge that I believe is possible to accomplish but not so easy to do. I'm a mom. I feel like my heart is going to be in Afghanistan. So very soon, I will probably find myself on here everyday. It helps to not feel like the only mom feeling this. Love all you moms. It's so nice to come on here and feel like I know everyone just because your hearts are the same as mine.
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Comment by TexasDocMom on December 19, 2011 at 8:44pm
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This is a tough time (as if ANY time isn't!) to have a deployed kid....so just know, that you are not alone, someone will always be home here to respond to you if you need to vent, laugh or cry or scream really, really, really loud over this holidaze period.
Thinking of you....
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It was a very emotional day for me yesterday as well Deb...I can remember crying just as hard the day "shock and awe" began, and I see now the effects of that on our world, and on our children who serve. I listened to my son in law who just kept saying "we were 90 miles from Bagdad, we were battle ready and experienced, why are they sending these kids in?"...and how the Gulf War has affected him even now. And the families of those lost in Iraq, I cannot imagine their pain as this war ends now....Our lost warriors did the job, served their country, followed orders, and a life lost in the honor and service of this country is never a waste....we just have to make sure intelligent, thoughtful leaders are in charge of our military.
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Comment by Debby on December 15, 2011 at 11:16am
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I posted this on facebook but wanted to post it here... so many of us probably having the same emotions...and finally welcome home...
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I found this on Huffington post about the packages being sent over seas.. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/11/30/well-wishers-asked-to-st...
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Today I got the coolest gift ever my brother sent me a flag with a certification that it was flown over one of the med corps in Afghanistan where he is stationed... with a note thanking me for all my support and help through this deployment, my husband wants to build a flag frame for it instead of buying one and I will frame the certificate and take a pic when its done and share it.. we are sending him and his guys dozens of cookies, fudge, toffee, brownies, and pumpkin break my grandkids and I made this weekend.. they will get a nice after christmas treat.. since it wont get there on time..
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I heard they were pulling the Marines out, but thought it was later in 2012, I know someone getting ready to deploy. Maybe that person was confused between Iraq and Afghanistan?
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lynda, that isn't my son, it's one of the Marines in 2/2....my son didn't deploy to Afghanistan, he deployed to Iraq with 2/2 the year before this was taped.
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DJones...I went to the youtube site to watch it, and read the information. The lyrics are written out and there's a note that says if they look bored, it's because they've stood there as the audience for "about 200 times" of singing the song! They look cold to me!! I'm sure they started out with a lot more enthusiasm!
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I have to watch it more closely this morning. My son said that the Marine that was injured in A and came to stay here at the house with him for a few days was in that pan around....wish I could see their hair...he's tall, handsome, slender and red headed, like a movie star cast as a Marine! He got hit in the arm, the bullet lodged in the vest. Came home to Dallas on R&R, and my son came from San Antonio, spent about 4 days here, hitting the lakes and swimming holes and talking. Lots of talking. "just wanted to make sure he's okay..." The Navy might pull the Doc out of the battalion, but they can never pull the Marine out of the Doc, I think.
Susan, I've heard several young warriors talk about going back as civilians, but once they get back home, into their lives again, I don't know if any of them followed through. I know for sure one did not! Cross that bridge when you come to it, you have plenty on your plate right now!!.
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