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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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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 ktssong on October 18, 2011 at 7:28pm
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Happy for you Devil Doc Mom to see happy moments on here too. Thank you for sharing. Since I'm new I don't know how long he was gone. How long was it? Did you get to talk to him while he was gone? THey look so happy. What a great picture to open up and see tonight. I'm sure you are in cloud nine today. I know I would be.
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Comment by hotflashes on October 18, 2011 at 4:48pm
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Devil DocMom!! How wonderful for you that your handsome son is home! I am soooo jealous.Enjoy every minute with him and thank him for me. I am patiently waiting for mine to return..... don't think that's anytime soon but even tomorrow wouldn't be soon enough! I hope you continue to visit here often as I have always looked forward to your advice. Thank you!
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Comment by TexasDocMom on October 17, 2011 at 9:02pm
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Whooo!!!Hooo!!phone call from the FMF Doc...who is almost boots down USA....life is good!
Welcome, ktssong, to the group no one wants to join...but once you do, it's addicting...and you keep coming back to offer support even when your kid is safe and sound in the USA...
Make a list of topics, keep it by the phone, then you have something to focus on instead of bursting into tears when you hear his voice. Answer every weird number that appears on your phone, keep your phone with you all the time.
If you garden, start digging, mowing and working so hard you can't stay awake...or hit the gym, or paint bedrooms....walk the dog...every day, sometimes twice...and put a litte youtube up of it so your son can see his dog...Go ahead and send for the boxes from the post office, and keep one open on the dining room table all the time....
and remember that there is always someone home at this group...you are not alone, you will not cry alone, or laugh alone or go out of your freakin' mind alone, because many of us are already there....
next? someone will explain that wonder of the world known as Walmart meltdowns....
It's not forever, it just seems like it...truly, you are not alone.
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Thank you Chief88. I thought maybe just new ones like me didn't so much like the word deployment. I know that when they sign up that is what they expect to do but it still doesn't make it easier. It's just something we know is there and we hope we don't have to do but know we will go through. Thank you. I will stay close to you moms. I feel like huddling in.
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Susan..."may" is the operative word, I hope...could change...I hope! Thinking of you today.
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Comment by Dan's Dad (John) on October 15, 2011 at 8:13pm
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Congratulations DDM!
It'll be my turn soon!
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DDM!!!! thank you for sharing this!!! I'm off to work and I'll be smiling the whole night and actually mean it!!! hug a Doc for me, please? and that Marine, too....
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My son says there are notices and phone numbers posted, meetings listed, etc, all over the bases. They have to step up to go. When my son was first stationed in San Antonio, after his time with the Marines, one of "his" Marines was injured in Afghanistan. This Marine is from Dallas, so home for R&R after surgery and healing of his arm wound. My son called, said he had invited the Marine to come to Austin to our home, and he and my son would be here for several days. When my son got here, I commented about him taking leave to spend time with his buddy. He said "he needs to talk, mom, Chief thought it'd be a good thing for a visit with a Doc." They spent 3 days swimming at Barton Springs (ice cold water!) and talking. Out on the patio, in my son's room....sittin on the hood of the cars...talking. My point is that there are now folks, military folks...watching out for these young warriors and they want to help us make sure our kids recover from serving in a war zone. Use them.
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Link to article about Buddy System for PTSD
Helping each other in the tough times. I know it's what my friend Travis, a VN vet, says to every young vet he meets, whereever he meets them...airports, bars, on the street..."call somebody, here's my number, if you don't have anyone else to call, call me. but call somebody and talk...".
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Our banner was delivered today! It's awesome, now we don't know if we're bringing it with us to CL or hang it from the house when he comes home.
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