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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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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.

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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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Comment by AubsMom on July 27, 2011 at 8:57am: Welcome Janice,

My Seabee daughter has been in Afghanistan since early summer and seems to be doing all right. She enjoys carepackages with snacks. I also send her magazines, toiletries, and a few fun things.

Comment by Much Trouble on July 27, 2011 at 8:00am: I would also like to welcome you, Janice and Eurekamom. I check out all messages here, but don't talk that much anymore. Not only do I have my son back home, but he has decided he will be getting out this fall. I really thought he was going to go for retirement, but each deployment seems to hurt his family more, so this is probably a wise decision. Eurekamom, you are NOT being whiny...you are being honest. This is the one place you can (and should) say exactly how you feel. Trust me...Whether you call it all your blood pooling in your feet, rocks in your stomach, or something else, we have all felt the same thing. The "Walmart Meltdowns" can occur any place at any time, and I think we have all had them. (The one I remember the most was when I was sitting in a coffeehouse one evening listening to a country music band. I can't remember the song they started playing and singing, but it was one that instantly filled me with grief. To take my mind away from where it was going, I glanced at a dark window... Outside, I noticed that the building across the street had a huge, lit up American flag fluttering on the roof and that was the end of my composure! )

This is the place we can talk about such things...along with all the pride we feel, the funny stories our kids tell us, and so on. "Outsiders" may not understand, but this place becomes "home". Love, hugs, and prayers for all of you!

Comment by eurekamom on July 27, 2011 at 12:38am: Hello all. I have just joined this group - a little early because we're still pre-deployment. I've just been so sad since I got the news from my son, I felt like I needed a head start on this site. I'm glad I have some time to come to grips with this ~ I am usually pretty level headed, but not right now. I want to keep a grip on myself, otherwise I'm no good at all to my corpsman son, our other son, or my husband. And.... I'm off to a whiny start! Sorry - I'm sure tomorrow will be a better day.

Comment by mikes mom on July 25, 2011 at 11:31am: TDM - I am so sorry... I do remember your asking for prayers for Jake...Stay strong... I know its not easy though..

Comment by TexasDocMom on July 23, 2011 at 12:06pm: Susan, good news that your son came home for even a few days/hours....and that he knows who to turn to to share those memories and experiences AND that he's looking to the future. Hope he utilized some of those groups we've discussed here to help him past those experiences in his deployment, and I hope they help.

Lori, think of Joe so often, hope he's healing in and out....and you too, mom. And kiss his cheek for this mom of an HM2, please.

Chief!! send us that photo! how cool is that flag pole?

I apologize for my distraction of late. A Navy mom friend of mine, whose son is a deployed Bee, is having a tough time. Her son's God son, Jake, is 7 years old and has a brutal cancer. I think I've shared about him before here. His time is coming closer, and my friend's Seabee cannot get home, to be with this child or his friends who are losing him Prayers for all, if you can. It's so bizarre to hold that Baby Joseph, who is a medical miracle and then see this little boy so taken over by this horrible disease and nothing can be done. Hug all your kids that are close by....and I pray every morning that each of you will get that phone call, that chat visit or email from your child in harm's way. Thank you for your service, ladies...and gents, too...

Comment by mikes mom on July 23, 2011 at 7:03am: Good Morning

I am always so happy to hear about homecomings.. Lori I hope Joe is doing well and heals ... I think of him often ...

Comment by TexasDocMom on July 21, 2011 at 12:54pm: Austin Marine to receive Medal of Honor We're hometown proud of this young man, and sad he had to do what he did to earn this medal.

From my local paper, the first one is video from our local Time Warner folks:

The Military Times said Meyer will be honored for the actions he took Sept. 8, 2009, in Ganjgal, a remote village near the Pakistan border in violent Kunar province, where he charged into a kill zone on foot and alone. Meyer told the Military Times that he carried the four men out of the area, which had been under fire for hours.

Killed in the September battle were Gunnery Sgts. Edwin Johnson, 31, and Aaron Kenefick, 30; 1st Lt. Michael Johnson, 25; Hospitalman 3rd Class James Layton, 22; an Afghan interpreter and at least eight Afghan security forces members, according to the Military Times.

"Already wounded by shrapnel, Meyer found (the Americans) dead and stripped off their gear and weapons, and helped carry them from the kill zone," the Military Times reported.

Meyer could not be reached for comment Wednesday night at his home in Austin.

In interviews with Marine Corps Times in November, he said he felt "like the furthest thing from a hero" because he did not find his fellow troops alive.

"Whatever comes out of it, it's for those guys," he said at the time. "I feel like I let my guys down because I didn't bring them home alive."

News of the award was first reported Tuesday by Leatherneck, a Marine Corps Association publication, and by the Marine Corps Times, an independent newspaper.

Both said Obama called Meyer on Monday to break the news.

Comment by Paymaster on July 19, 2011 at 10:35pm: When I was growing up my dad would make the jerky and place the jerky on a rack in the attic space of the house during the summer. It was always very hot of there and it was a great place to dry the jerky. He would leave it up there 24 hours and it would turn out great.