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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
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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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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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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
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Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on May 30, 2011 at 9:36pm
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P-bear's mom, not sure which...? Here is link to a very touching video entitled"The True Meaning of Memorial Day" set to Amazing Grace sung by Leann Rimes - along with a major tissue alert, naturally...
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Comment by Much Trouble on May 30, 2011 at 8:07pm
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I stumbled across a Memorial Day video that was very moving, but it probably shouldn't be shared here. It really rams the truth home and WE don't need that. I sure wish the clueless ones would watch, though...it might help them feel what we have felt. Anyway...Even though my son is now safe at home, I gave myself the heebie-jebbies, and needed to stop in for a sanity check. Love to you all!
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I stole it also! This is beautiful, and I thank you for sharing it.
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Comment by TexasDocMom on May 30, 2011 at 5:25pm
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I so stole that, Paymaster, thank you!
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Comment by Paymaster on May 30, 2011 at 5:23pm
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I think this could have been written by my father. I know he would agree.
From the Veteran's Press Memorial Day 2011 Issue. Author unknown
Memorial Day is their day, isn't it? It is supposed to be the day a grateful nation pauses to quietly thank the more than one million men and women who have died in military service to their country since the Revolutionary War.
Or is it the day the beach resorts kick into high gear for the summer season, the day the strand is covered by fish-belly white people basting themselves with coconut oil, the day the off season rates end and the weekend you can't get in a seaside seafood restaurant with anything less than a one hour wait.
Or is it one of the biggest shopping center sales days of the year, a day when hunting for a parking space is the prime sport for the holiday stay at homers.
Or is it the weekend when more people will kill themselves on the highways than any other weekend and Highway Patrol Troopers will work overtime picking up the pieces.
I think the men and women who died for us would understand what we do with their day. I hope they would, because if they wouldn't, if they would have insisted that it be a somber respectful day of remembrance, then we have blown it and dishonored their sacrifice.
I knew quite a number of those who died, and the guys I knew would have understood.
They liked a sunny beach and a cold beer and a hot babe in a bikini, too. They would have enjoyed packing the kids, the inflatable rafts, the coolers and the suntan lotion in the car and heading for the lake. They would have enjoyed staying at home and cutting the grass and getting together with some friends and cooking some steaks on the grill, too.
But they didn't get the chance. They blew up in the Marine Barracks in Beirut, and died in the oily waters of the Persian Gulf. They lost their life to a sniper in Afghanistan or an IED in Iraq. They caught theirs at an airstrip in Grenada in the little war everyone laughed at. They bought the farm in the I Drang Valley, and on Heartbreak Ridge, Phu Bai and Hue. They froze at the Chosin Reservoir and were shot at the Pusan Perimeter. They drowned in the surf at Omaha Beach or fell in the fetid jungle on Guadalcanal. They died in the ice and snow of the Bulge. Others are still entombed in the Pacific Ocean aboard their ships and in the waters of Pearl Harbor aboard the USS Arizona. They were at Somme and San Juan Hill and at Gettysburg and at Cerio Gordo and at Valley Forge.
They couldn't be here with us this weekend, but I think they would understand that we don't spend the day in tears and heart wrenching memorials. They wouldn't want that. Grief is not why they died.
They died so we could go fishing. They died so a father could hold his laughing little girl over the waves. They died so another father could toss a baseball to his sonin the backyard. They died so a buddy could drink a cold beer on his day off. They died so a family could hop in the car and go shopping and maybe stop for ice cream on the way home.
They won't mind that we have chosen their day to have or first big outdoor party of the year. But they wouldn't mind either, if we took just a second and thought about them. Some will think of them formally, of course. Wreaths will be laid in small, sparsely attended ceremonies in military cemeteries and at monuments at state capitols and in town squares. Flags will fly over graves, patriotic words will be spoken and a few people will probably feel a little anger that more people didn't show up. They'll think that no one else remembered.
But we do remember. We remember Smitty and Dave and Chico and the guys who died. We will remember the deal we made. If I buy it, we said, drink a beer for me. I'll do it for you guys. I'll drink that beer for you, today, and I'll sit on that beach for you, and I'll check out the girls for you, and, just briefly, I'll think of you. I won't let your memory spoil the trip but you will be on that sunny beach with me today. I will not mourn your death this Memorial Day, my friend. Rather, I'll celebrate the life you gave me.
This BUD's for you, Brother.
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Comment by vettespace on May 30, 2011 at 3:47pm
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Hi hotflashes, my packages from AL are taking about eight days to get to a FOB in Helmand Province. I've heard that some can take longer though.
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Comment by hotflashes on May 30, 2011 at 3:36pm
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A big thank you to all with your wonderful humor and fountain of love and knowledge! I just finished getting my first care package ready to send and I can't tell you how much that list helped. I especially loved the food saver idea. Lol I am not sure if I will survive his 1st deployment, but I am trying my best!! The tears still flow at the weirdest times but TOO BAD! I was wondering if you know how long it takes to get a package in the sandbox? Anyway my grandkids just got out of the pool and of course they are bugging their momma for ice cream so I will just have to give them what they want.. Lol Be back later and Thank you!
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Comment by Debby on May 30, 2011 at 1:18pm
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I know you keep saying switch to the canadian blends but JD is a family thing.. I would be disowned I am sure.. haha...
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Oh, Deb! what am I going to do with you? Jack Daniels kills brain cells, ask me...I know! make the switch to Canadian Blends...I prefer VO, but most like Crown Royal (too syrupy for me...)
Yes, all loved ones of deployed folks are welcome here! and since the news is more and more calling Libya the "3rd" war zone, those folks should drop by as well.
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Cancer have his girlfriend come here and join us.. doesnt matter that she's not a Mom she loves him and he's going to be there so she could use the support.. We all know... I just sent my sister in law my 8 steps for surviving deployment. 1. Jack Daniels.. 2. Work a lot.. 3. take some college classes 4. Jack Daniels 5. Exercise/take long walks 6. Scream at the moon in the middle of nowhere ( it scares the neighbors if you do it in your yard) 7. Jack Daniels 8. Jack Daniels...
I have invited her to join us since she is a Navy Nurse she probably needs it more ....
Debby
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