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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.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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Navy.com Para Familias
Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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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 August 1, 2011 at 7:58pm
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One more thing...it's also good for our kids, they take solace in the fact that we are here for one another, and that someone is supporting their mom on a tough night or dad when he hasn't had a call in 3 weeks...It keeps them focused on their job and coming home safe and sound.
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Chief, I had a friend who had a saying...please forgive my crudeness..."well, they can kiss my ass and call me Freddie." I have not a clue what it means but that was going through my mind when I was reading your post about your poor ignorant SIL. You know, when a recruiter tells her that if her kid joins the Navy he'll never got to war, she's gonna believe it! HA!!!
And I too, hope and pray that there is no war for her kids to serve in and that she never has to know how good it feels to come here, and realize that you are not the only one to be afraid, and cry in the Target, and that you are really truly not alone. And how important it is to all military moms and dads, just knowing that we are not alone.
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Comment by Victoria on August 1, 2011 at 12:38pm
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Thanks and here in FL we've been running like 94/95ish so hopefully that will be a little cooler weather...Lol
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Victoria, it's amazing how their attitudes towards hugs and kisses change while deployed....he'll love it! have a great time!! wish it was cool, cool weather for his R and R!!
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Hey everyone missed you all the last couple of weeks, I've just been swamped w/ work & life. Anyway.....So excited the boy is enroute home for 2wks. I have know idea when he'll get in, I'm guessing sometime tomorrow morning ish. If the next 3 flights go according to plan. As of last night everything was good to go. So I wait w/ fingers crossed.(I'm now going to paste this to my other groups so some of you may see it more than once) He's probably going to have a fit, but I can't wait to smother him w/ hugs & kisses...Lol
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Elder bull from military family needs help
If you know anyone in the area of Ohio, please share about this sweet old pittie bull, she's not being allowed to live on base at her family's new station, and they are all heartbroken.
Hope you are all doing well, getting through the days and nights, getting some rest and avoiding the heat! Finally going to get hot in Texas, we'll be hitting 110 in Central Texas this week more than once!
I guess it's "welcome back" Navy 08....hope you can hear from him soon!
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Comment by hotflashes on July 28, 2011 at 2:43pm
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Thank you TDM for posting that song! It is so beautiful and moving.. don't know why I never heard it before.
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Yes, welcome back Debby, here we go again! Welcome to the new moms as well, you're in the right place for support, venting, crying, screeching, laughing, sharing, and all around meltdown extravangzas...some one is always home, you are not alone.
going to share this video, it's an older one, but it's so good...and it'll get the tears out and you can move on with your day...
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Comment by Debby on July 27, 2011 at 10:32pm
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Hi all Just got back from seattle got to spend time with my parents for their 50th wedding anniversary and got to say good by to my lil brother.. . I set up yahoo msging with him and his wife and showed them how to use it... told him to setup an account on youtube and make it private so he can read stories to his daughter and have her log into it and watch her daddy.. I told my sister in law to join us all here for added support... then on my way to work today it hit me.. my baby brother is leaving for AFG soon I wanna be sick but then I can't complain I have had an entire year with no loved ones in the sand.. that is a record in my house... he has to go down to an army base for specialized trauma surgery, he's a surgeon but as I call him "KIng pee pee fixer" he's a urologist and does that fancy micro surgery.. so he wont be going immediately but the reality is now here.. I am glad to read that some of our mom's have gotten phone calls.. that is awesome!!! Take care mom's we are in it together!
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Comment by Paymaster on July 27, 2011 at 9:09am
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Welcome Janice and Eurekamom. Its nice to see another Northern CA mom here.
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