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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.
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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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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 November 9, 2011 at 10:03am
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Okay, I should drink coffee before sitting at the computer...DJones, just wrote you a note over in Corpsman Moms inviting you to come here....I'm so glad you found us!!
Yes, it seems they don't send our Marines and Corpsmen to the easy spots...and you can bet those Army moms think the same thing! A war zone is a war zone...and fear is fear....
While we sit here biting our nails, those guys are doing their jobs, always busy, time is moving faster for them than for us...and all that training is paying off....
Welcome to the group no one wants to join, DJones, someone is always home. You are not alone.
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Comment by DJones on November 9, 2011 at 8:59am
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Hi. I am new to not only the group, but to this website. This is my son's first deployment to Afghanistan and unfortunately I am not handling it very well. He is on his way to a very volatile area at a combat outpost. He is an FMF Corpsman and will be with only a handful of Marines. So scary. Just wanted to chat with some others who may be having the same feelings.
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Wounded warrior vets give back to help themselves wonderful story, I'm so glad that our children serve with people like this. Helps make the worry a tiny, tiny bit less....
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Comment by Much Trouble on November 6, 2011 at 7:24pm
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Chief, listen to TDM and Susan. I think I got through my son's deployment quite well, with just a few low spots. Then, when he was coming home I fell apart! I don't know if it was relief that we were both going to make it, or if it was the last minute "what-ifs", but it was awful. Now, I'm beginning to see that it is "normal" for many of us to go through this. (I was sure that total insanity had taken over!) I agree that if you need to cry, you should...heaven knows, you have been trying to stiffle your feelings for a long time. BTW...When you DO get to put your arms around him, WE WANT PICTURES! LOL Good luck, Hon...You are almost there!
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chief! cry...don't hold back, get it out.....it's how you will sleep tonight. You've been the good mom for so many months, doing the things that you're supposed to do...and you know what? crying is one of them....just wait until you see his face, even if it's on the computer screen when another mom takes the photo of him at homecoming. It won't matter if you've heard his voice, know he's safe in the USA, when you see that face and his smile, it will start a crying jag like never has been seen before. I will never forget it, that morning at 6am when I opened an email from a mom who had snapped a photo of my son....I cried, and cried, and cried...even when he called that day, I couldn't stop crying. Even when he kept saying "I'm okay, mom, I'm okay, really....I'm okay..." all I could do was sob. I kept saying I was sorry to keep crying and he said "you're my mom, you love me."....it's okay to cry, chief, I'm doing right now with you because I know your fears and dreams and how they all come together in just a very short time.
You are not alone.
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Comment by Paymaster on November 3, 2011 at 8:13pm
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BTW....The post office has just release its deadline dates for shipping holiday packages today.
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John...He is home NOW...that is all that matters. Hug him and enjoy him...and I agree with TDM...When I see we have another home, I start grinning from ear to ear. When they are ALL home and there is no need for this site, I'll be thrilled to pieces!
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Boy oh boy, I love it when I get a notification from this group and arrive here to see news like THAT!! John!!! good for you and good for your Doc!!! hug him for his Navy moms/dads that he doesn't even know!!
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Comment by Dan's Dad (John) on November 1, 2011 at 1:49pm
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My Doc is home! Everyone keeps asking me if he'll have to go back and all I can say is I don't know.
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Comment by Jeanette on October 31, 2011 at 6:17pm
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Susan, I'm sorry to hear of the possibility that you'll have 2 gone at the same time. I can only imagine what's going through your mind, but I'm sure you have more strength than you know and somehow you'll get through this difficult time. I just came back to this site as my son just deployed for his second time. He was barely home a year before he left again and this will be our first Christmas without him. I'm one of the lucky ones because we get to speak often, but I also remember his last deployment when we were anxiously waiting by the phone hoping that it would ring. As TDM said, take care of yourself and keep occupied. I find great joy in looking for items to put into care packages and right now I'm working on Christmas. Let's hope that they'll all be home soon, safe and sound.
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