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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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Choose your Username. For the privacy and safety of you and/or your sailor, NO LAST NAMES ARE ALLOWED, even if your last name differs from that of your sailor (please make sure your URL address does not include your last name either). Also, please do not include your email address in your user name. Go to "Settings" above to set your Username. While there, complete your Profile so you can post and share photos and videos of your Sailor and share stories with other moms!

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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

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:

National Resource Directory

The National Resource Directory (NRD) is a website which connects wounded warriors, service members, Veterans, and their families with those who support them.

It provides access to services and resources at the national, state and local levels to support recovery, rehabilitation and community reintegration.

Real Warriors The Real Warriors Campaign is an initiative launched by the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) to promote the processes of building resilience, facilitating recovery and supporting reintegration of returning service members, veterans and their families.

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

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.

Military Pathways Facebook

To help those who may be struggling, the DoD teamed up with the nonprofit organization Screening for Mental Health to launch Military Pathways (TM), also known as the Mental Health Self-Assessment Program (MHSAP). The program is available online and at special events held at installations worldwide. Check us out at militarymentalhealth.com. It provides free, anonymous mental health and alcohol self-assessments for family members and service personnel in all branches including the National Guard and Reserve.

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.

Military Slang Appendix

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!!

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Comment by Debby on August 21, 2011 at 1:17pm: TDM.. no they are not mom trained however...actually they are more.. Dont ask don't tell mom trained.. deployments do that to you ... so I am hoping someone will take a picture.. My daughter in law is pretty good about that... Lynda yes they are.. but just haven't been able to see each other due to deployments then one could get leave one couldn't.. life with military kids... the do speak on the phone a lot though ...

Comment by TexasDocMom on August 21, 2011 at 10:30am: Great news, Debby!! are they mom trained enough to send photos?

and lynda! it's a hot state, but normally not this hot...we're breaking records here right and left for high temps and the length of consecutive days. No idea when it will end. As my son said about Iraq...'at least you know you'll be leaving it behind when you go home'...this is home! grrrr...burnt and crispy...very crispy. So many fires all around...

Comment by Debby on August 21, 2011 at 9:59am: My former sailor and my soldier got to see each other this weekend.. first time in over 3 years.. and even though they both were in Iraq at the same time they were always to far apart... I wish i could have been there.. but glad it finally happened!!!

Comment by TexasDocMom on August 20, 2011 at 6:18pm: It's just too damn hot. We're in for 75 days of over 100+ days, consistently, no rain....burning in hell type heat. I do not know how our military does this in Afghan or Iraq. God Bless them. It's too damn hot.

Okay, I vented, but it's still hot. The door knob to our front door is hot, the handle on the storm door is HOTTER....

Comment by TexasDocMom on August 17, 2011 at 6:32pm: A good list and summary of OPSEC regs posted in Discussion area.

Comment by mikes mom on August 17, 2011 at 3:41pm: Good to note... I am always so careful about what I say and do... What that family must have felt...

Thanks for the advise and warning...

Comment by TexasDocMom on August 17, 2011 at 10:26am: Ladies and gents...would one of you check with your family readiness folks and ask them to give you the procedure that would be followed by the military in the situtation like the one listed in my last post? Ask them exactly what would occur and if any family got a call like this one, exactly what number should be called and who should be notified. We want to be able to give accurate information to any family member coming here if they get calls or emails, any communication that cannot be verified.

Lori...how were you notified when Joe was injured?

Comment by TexasDocMom on August 17, 2011 at 10:20am: Just coming here to post this warning : TO ALL MY MILITARY FAMILY FRIENDS: BE AWARE!!
Bn XO here. 1 of our deployed Marine's family was called & informed of a false-IED strike on their son. The caller identified himself as a Marine. We have already confirmed this to be false and not a case of mistaken identity. The Marine is fine and has spoken to his family. We believe this may have been an attempt to gain personal information from a concerned family. HQMC has stated that this is not the first phone call of this nature.

How anyone could be so cruel, even a common criminal like this slime ball.

Make sure your facebook pages are closed down tight to non friends, if you use that "family" thing, and it lists your son/daughter on it, I would discontinue it while they are deployed or in the service. Our kids keep their pages so open, makes me crazy, but you don't want some ass like these people to be able to find you through your sailor/soldier/marine or vice versa. The Navy and Marine fb pages have been posting tons of messages concerining social meda OPSEC, we have to help them...

Comment by eurekamom on August 15, 2011 at 12:08pm: oops ... there

Comment by eurekamom on August 15, 2011 at 12:08pm: Hey moms/dads, can they listen to music with their ipods thre? I'm thinking about a good headset for my son.