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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 TexasDocMom on May 30, 2011 at 9:04am: Thinking of all of you with kids in harm's way today...saw online where the folks in Afghan took a moment to remember the fallen, God Bless them all, and you that wait at home as well. I'm so thankful that today my son is on US soil and it's my biggest wish that we someday can shut this group down and meet elsewhere as our kids are all home safe and sound and moving forward in their lives in a safer world.

Cancer, my son's thought is that Texans and others from the Southwest should deploy in the summer hot months and those from up north should deploy in the winter months to that place....the heat didn't bother him like it did others. The cold, that's another story!!

Enjoy the day, whatever it brings, and I hope it brings you each a phone call!!!

Comment by LMC -mom of 2 Sailors! on May 29, 2011 at 6:33pm: Texas thank you for sharing.

Comment by TexasDocMom on May 29, 2011 at 1:00pm: Free Download of "15 Months" link

My friends, Misner and Smith, are offering a free download of their song about deployment, called 15 months. I remember standing in my living room, and Sam Misner asking me about my son, and the photos of my family, including those in uniform. My son was deployed at the time. He asked me something, I can't remember what, I just remember saying "mostly I'm just scared." And then a few months later he sent me a copy of this song. It will make you cry, but to me it's another piece of support, my friends in music sharing their thoughts, making the rest of the world remember that we are in two war zones. Make them think about our kids serving....

Comment by mikes mom on May 29, 2011 at 10:51am: Melony I would love that : ) Just let me know...

Comment by mikes mom on May 28, 2011 at 9:16pm: Melony - I live about 30 to 40 minutes from Monterey : ) Awesome place..Let me know if he ever needs anything..

Comment by Debby on May 28, 2011 at 8:59pm: Meloney is he going to the Presido at Montery? He will more than likely have to go there first to secure housing. If he is going to live off base the Army has a website that he can look at to find housing.. Army generally will have a list of approved off base housing. (I will see if I can find that link) They do the foot work as far as making sure the housing is sutable and to make sure the landlords are on the up and up. They don't want their guys to be taken advantage of.. I personally like on base housing but there is usually a waiting list. I know he would want them there the same day but that might be to difficult. Here is the link for the montery presidio http://www.monterey.army.mil/Index.html there may be some info there to help you..

I know how hard it is to have 1 navy 1 army (especially during football season) My brother will soon be leaving for AFG its funny I added up all the deployments between nephew, 2 son's cousin and now brother and we will have 15 between 5 men, my cousin is a LT Col and has been to Iraq and AFG the most and he recently retired.. anyway I digress... Remember we are here for you even on the bad days..

Comment by sjtina on May 28, 2011 at 3:14pm: I wish I knew about this group when my oldest was in Iraq and Afgh. He is a seabee and was stationed in Greece that past year. He is heading home next week for a short stay the off to cali for 2 yrs who knows after that. he just reenlisted for 6 more years.

Comment by TexasDocMom on May 28, 2011 at 1:31pm: Red Cross and Help for the Military, Emergency Notificaton This link has been posted above, it gives information on how the Red Cross helps and works with the miltiary and the phone notification numbers if anyone has a family emergency and has to contact your loved one serving elsewhere.

Comment by TexasDocMom on May 28, 2011 at 1:30pm: Melony! no apologies needed, lady...we're here. Thanks for letting us know what's going on with your and your sailor and soldier. We ARE here, and we do understand your fear. And we all know that feeling of being overwhelmed. Come back any time, you are not alone.

Comment by Dan's Dad (John) on May 28, 2011 at 1:15pm: P-Bear that was too funny. Sounds like our son's have the same duty. Last we heard he was clearing roads for a paving crew and sleeping in his truck.