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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
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DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.
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Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:
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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 TexasDocMom on September 14, 2011 at 9:19am
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Chief!! so glad you got a call!!
Yeah, my first thoughts are usually about those who lost a buddy, and still there trying to do the job safe and sound. I left a comment in the guestbook in our local paper for this young Doc's family, and told them that Navy families across the country share their loss and heartbreak.
But you, Ms Chief, go for two nights of great sleep, you need it!!
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My son tells me this was an Austin native, prayers to his family. I hope we can attend his services in Killeen on Tuesday.
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 11, 2011. The Department of Defense announced today the death of a sailor who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Petty Officer Brian K. Lundy, 25, of Austin, Texas, died while conducting a dismounted patrol in Marjah, Helmand province, Afghanistan, on Sept. 9. Lundy was assigned as a hospital corpsman to 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 5, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Source: defense.gov
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Free Welcome Home Banners from Build a Sign, which I'm proud to say is right here in my home town of Austin!
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I hear the Forestry Service is doing miracles out in Bastrop. So many tall pines, coming down, because a big storm like that would cause a real mess on any homes going back up, weak trees, some not burnt on top but roots burning. Today on our local news was a man who had part of melted engine block! looked like lava...down his driveway. But the food in the fridge was still green and ready for the dinner he was fixing when he was evacuated.
Our legislature cut our Volunteer Fire Dept's funding by 75% this year, and our state is primarily Volunteer...and since Dec 2010 we've been in the biggest wildfire season in history. So very sad. The state finally got the paperwork to the federal government on Monday for FEMA to kick in funds, altho they have been here for days before that on the ground. I can't imagine working for FEMA, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires...geez.
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Comment by Marcy on September 13, 2011 at 10:04am
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Wow DevilDocMom, that would be scary. I don't like storms like that at all. I hide under the covers with stuff like that. I remember we were camping one year and had a big storm. We were in the woods around a lot of huge trees and man i don't know if we have ever had a storm like that again. Hope all your storms are by you now.
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Ok I didn't know if someone being stupid had started it or not. You hear of that way too often. Such devastation and loss. I will pray for all who have lost their homes and animals and for you too that it does not affect your home. I can't imagine what you all are going thru down there and wish I could send some of this rain we are having to you. We actually were getting too much of it. Will try and blow it your way.
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Marcy, we've had drought for months and months, so very dry...the first "cool"front blew in with extra winds from the Tropical Storm in Louisana (but not a drop of rain!) and low, low humidity. A spark from anything can start a blaze....even I heard of sun bouncing off glass and igniting dry grass. Lawnmowers, people too stupid to know NOT to grill outdoors in a Burn ban, smokers disposing of cigerettes improperly....they literally were popping up all over. 30 homes lost west of Austin, over 1450 lost in the Bastrop area, plus a good percentage of a beautiful state park, but they did save the old treasured buildings out there. Very sad, very hard on so many people.
Yes, the 9/11 families tore my heart. When they went into the Memorial for the first time to see the name of their loved one etched in bronze, and touched it, and kept touching it, standing there with their hands on it through the rest of the ceremonies, I cried. No graves at which to mourn for so many of these familie, this the first "closeness" they had felt since that day....
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TDM, that is such a cool picture. I feel for you guys down there and now there are fires in CA too. I hope all make it through this and it stops soon. Do they have an idea of where it started and how? I don't watch much tv due to studying going to school and watching Disney all day, so I haven't heard anything.
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TDM, that is such a cool picture. I feel for you guys down there and now there are fires in CA too. I hope all make it through this and it stops soon. Do they have an idea of where it started and how? I don't watch much tv due to studying going to school and watching Disney all day, so I haven't heard anything.
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