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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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Comment by Lisa A on July 4, 2011 at 8:14pm: Happy 4th to all, Got a call from the lad last night. and he is back to a big base, after 3 weeks camping, putting a road in the middle of nowhere to ? Good to talk to the Lad. Showers and clean clothes, Huge!!! All he wanted in his box ,that is ready to ship ,is little pine tree car freshers, The place stinks!!! all the boys boots, socks, and what not! Thats is one I would have not thought about!! a new one for the boxes!!! Happy 4th!!

Comment by TexasDocMom on July 2, 2011 at 5:27pm: Thanks, Susan! for letting me know...I was wondering...the kind of thing you hope is happening! God Forbid any of you have kids that end up in San Antonio, I'd get there for you until you could, that's for sure.

Comment by TexasDocMom on July 2, 2011 at 9:09am: Good for you Cancer!! yes, I felt the same way, you can tell they want to stay on the line with "home" so I make that list...I could talk about the Spurs (actually kept the sports articles out of the paper so I'd sound like I knew what I was talking about, but he knew...), the dog, the neighbors...how his old high school was doing on football...whatever!!

Comment by TexasDocMom on July 1, 2011 at 8:03pm: I'm not starting an argument here, gentlemen, let it go, please. I'm just telling you what my son, an FMF corpsman and my brother, a US Marine, as well as many other Marine vets told me over many years of living in a Navy town.

If you're looking for an issue to fight over with me, this isn't it. Surely your son has been recommended for trying for the FMF pin, vette, and I'm sure that counts in a war zone to those young Marines.

I do appreciate that the stories being shared from Aghanistan on other boards are not being shared on this one, thank you. Thanks to all who realize that just because your loved one tells something to mom or dad, he/she is not telling it to the general public.

Have a nice night.

Comment by TexasDocMom on July 1, 2011 at 7:42pm: By the way, John, glad to see you've heard from your son!

Comment by TexasDocMom on July 1, 2011 at 7:27pm: yes, John, really...the tradition of the FMF qualification is that once it's achieved by corpsman, that Corpsman is recognized by his Marines and Marines everywhere as the "Doc". To the Marines, it's the sign of the highest respect, calling a corpsman who has proven his merit, and busted his butt to earn that title to serve along side them in combat the Doc.

To me, as a Navy brat, those guys in the clinic where I went everytime I was hurt or ill, they were all doctors to me, and they do great work. To my son, as a corpsman, his greatest honor is when his Marines told him he was a "real" Doc after he earned that FMF qualification and serving with him in the sand. I don't question his thoughts on this, he earned it just like Victoria's son has done. Marines do not call every corpsman Doc. When I tell a Marine, old or young, that my son is a Navy corpsman, pretty much the first thing they ask is if he's a field Corpsman, a real Doc. I'm always very proud to say, yes, he's earned his pin.

I'm not casting aspersions on any other corpsmen, they are all heroes to me, but I am the mom of an FMF corpsman, a Navy vet called Doc by those with whom he served in a war zone, and I'm very proud of him.