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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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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 TexasDocMom on September 1, 2011 at 9:09am
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This is the blog for Jacob...a special reminder about Jake's project to get Pillow Pets to kids around the country in hospitals. If you'd like to donate a pillow pet, there are directions on the link or if you live in a town with a children's hospital, perhaps you could just drop one off for Jacob.Jake's story on caring bridge
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Jacob passed over last night, about 8 o'clock CST. Our Navy mom is finally letting go, and finding the words to comfort her is just so hard. Having a kid deployed in a war zone and trying to be the support of this young woman fighting such a horrific battle, not to mention some health issues of her own with no health insurance.....I'm in awe of her. But last night, the tears came, the release that we all know has to happen and that moves us forward to the next day.
After...after she had to write an email to her deployed son to tell him about losing Jake. Thank God they had the chance to talk...and that Jake's mom got to hear him tell that seabee "I love you, too..." Thank you all for your support, my friend is very private about her son's service (at his request) and altho we were blessed to meet on N4M back when it first began, our friendship has grown so much, I feel very blessed. Her support when my son was in Iraq help keep me sane, and sometimes, when I post some silly thing, I know there are those that think I'm crazy, but this seabee's mom keeps the jokes and the laughter coming at us in all kinds of situations, and it saves the sanity of many of our moms facing some tough times. I know she does come read here, so for her I will tell you again, thank you so much for your prayers, good thoughts and love of that little boy and his extended family. He's at rest, no more pain, and the grieving has begun. A little brother and sister have lost a big brother who was their idol and "protector". But Jake told a story of "petting the air", and how his dogs that had gone on to Rainbo Bridge were with him all the time, so we know he's being guided with love and devotion, and like us, he is never alone. Thank you.
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Comment by Marcy on September 1, 2011 at 9:05am
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Thank you so much for the warm welcome. I am on other sites and I have not found one that has all the branches like this one.
I don't know any of your military kids yet but I will tell you about mine. I have my sailor who is stationed out of Hawaii and is on the Port Royal on deployment right now, he is now 22. My sailor is in Cryptology too and is an E5 now. I have my Airman and he is 19 soon to be 20 the first of October, he is in Security Forces. As I told you guys he is Iraq and would like to go to Afghanstan. I told him I put my foot down on that one, LOL. I know I can't stop him but I hope he changes his mind. Anyways, he is stationed Japan as well. As we all do i miss getting to talk to them everyday, well almost everyday. I do, do skype when we can but it is hard to do video when they don't have good WIFI were they are. My airman does go to the USO and calls when he can. He said he kinda likes it over there.
So tell me about this little boy you guys are all talking about? Is he really sick? Sorry new so I am asking a lot of questions.
Wow 10 boxes for him that is great. I am sure he did feel like it was Christmas. I am hoping to a box out to each of mine. My sailor I had sent him one box and a N4M sent one out too for him from my Allmoms site. I need to get one out to the other one for his birthday will be coming up too. Oh boy and then it will be time to get them their Christmas stuff. Wow time flys.
Well again thank you for the warm welcome and I hope you all have a great day.
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Ten boxes!! that was a happy crew, I bet...
Thank you for the thoughts on Jake. His godfather called from deployment, and they got to have a good conversation....he's getting more frail, and it's just a matter of time, so it's good that call came when it did. We worry after our grown sons and daughters, so much fear, and this young mom has passed the fear to acceptance and wanting her boy out of pain...and still hating to let go. So very sad.
Wow..ten boxes!
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Comment by Much Trouble on August 31, 2011 at 9:48pm
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Welcome to our group, Marcy. You are a mom and you have a kid in a war zone...this is a good place for you to be.
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Marcy, all are welcome!! I don't know if we have any Airman moms, we have a soldier or six...a couple of Marine moms, and certainly sailor moms here....
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Hello ladies, I don't have a sailor in Iraq but I do have an Airman over there right now. He is in Security Forces. I also have a sailor who is deployed on the Port Royal right now. So I hope you don't mind that I joined because of my Airman.
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From one of the moms in Texas Military Moms...
One morning, a grandmother was surprised to find that her 7-year-old grandson had made her coffee! Smiling, she choked down the worst cup of her life. When she finished, she found three little green Army men at the bottom. Puzzled, she asked, "Honey, what are these Army men doing in my coffee?" Her grandson answered, "Like it says on TV, Grandma. 'The best part of waking up is soldiers in your cup!
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I haven't tried it and I know only what's on the link but they said free calls from military abroad...check it out!
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Hope all are safe from the storm as it moves up the coast, and all have heard from loved ones, in the storm and across the world this weekend...
Some of you may remember my posts about Jake the little boy with cancer...7 years old. His time is near, his mother facing her hell of wanting to see this baby out of pain and losing her son way too soon. Her name is Tosha, please include her in your prayers, your positive energy, however you believe. His godfather, a Seabee, is deployed and will miss seeing Jake probably by just days as he returns to the US. Seabee's mom carrying the load of support for his friends right now, she's in double hurt....blessings and love to all in pain today.
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