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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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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:
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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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 Debby on May 20, 2011 at 7:56am
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Hi all I have been pretty busy lately and sorry I normally check in to welcome our new folks etc... I posted on my FB page about my Soldier son was diagnosed with Arnold Chiari Malformation - the easiest way to describe what it is.. a hernia in the brain. He has a couple more tests which include a test to check the flow of his spinal fluid and a spinal MRI. When he got back from last deployment he started having intense migraines. Nothing the dr.s gave him did anything for it.. I am still amazed at my soldier he still went to work everyday and didnt complain other than to the doctors. After a verbal confrontation with a ranking medical officer they decided to run a CT scan. The radiologist missed it but thankfully the neurologist didnt. His prognosis is up in the air pending the next two tests. After some research I am pretty darn scared right now, this could end his military career and I can tell you that will be devastating to him. So we are on a wait status right now. Inga sent me a link to a group on FB of folks that have this and the stories are scary but there are some great outcomes too. All of his information has been sent to a neuro surgeon. Thankfully my brother is a Navy doctor and is now involved helping us with finding a second opinion etc.. If he has to have surgery I will be going to Missouri to be with him and his wife. Luckily for him he has a mother in law and grandmother in law who are nurses, his grandmother is a nurse, his mom is in school (which means I know nothing) and uncle a doctor. He has a good support structure. I will let you all know more when I know more.. I had to be careful on facebook with what I put because he can see it LOL and I don't want him to know I am scared shitless (sorry for this word)
I am also starting to wonder what these guys encountered in Iraq I know of 4 others in my son's unit that have some odd affliction since coming home.. I know everything I have read about my sons issue says it is something he may have been born with.. but some odd things are going on with these guys...
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Comment by TexasDocMom on May 19, 2011 at 5:27pm
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Link to Guardian Angels for Soldier's pets Might be something that someone might want to become involved in...certainly would keep one busy while a kid is deployed!
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Comment by vettespace on May 19, 2011 at 3:12pm
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I really liked the Generals ending comments:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/a-marine-gen...
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Meet Snoco, he's a little dog, whose mom leaves today for A. and she's found Guardian Angels, which is a group who locates fosters for the pets of service personnel deploying over seas. If you read back and look at the photos, you can see this dog is one of us, he knows that pain. He has been with "she" (that's what the foster is called!) since January when his "mom" started special training to prepare for deployment. He got to see her once a month but now she's gone for a year.
Go say hello, I invited him to come visit...he's adorable, and I so appreciate "she" that is taking care of him.Snoco's Facebook page
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I was floored to learn my son was the "chef" when out and about with that George Foreman Grill and the rice cooker....he was Nacho Man here in my kitchen. Problem solving and creative thinking on the fly is one thing the military teaches already really smart young men and women.
Wonder if you could send bags of corn masa (and a roller) for tortillas, with cans of refried beans. No cheese, but still. My next door neighbor growing up made her tortillas with a fat wooden dowel as a roller.
Soy...learned about it when I managed a Starbucks, the soy lattes (ugh!) so many women drank, I'll take that Estroven pill instead, the package was about 5 bucks back when I bought them. Susan, that's a shame about the Benedryl, it's affordable and it really knocks me out. I have some other friends with your same reaction tho, it's all about the metabolism.
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Comment by Much Trouble on May 19, 2011 at 8:54am
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My son has always been a "MacGyver" type (remember the TV show?) but I think a war zone brings out that streak in all of them. I'd love to be able to interview our troops and ask what they did if they needed something that was unavailable.
Another skill they seem to develop over there is bartering. My Navy son quickly learned that if the Navy didn't have any whatever, the Army had them stockpiled. Presto! A trade was made and everyone was happy.
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Chief...soy!! Estrosoy, or estroven something like that...at the grocery store. buy it take some...SOY, ladies!! stops a lot of the sweats and flashes, it helped me sleep when I went off of HRT. Also, for sleeping I simply took Benedryl. Besides, I live in one of the allergy capitols of the world...but it knocks me out. And it's cheaper than all that other stuff.
Told my son about the condoms....and you grabbing them up..."because my son's deployed, he'll need these..." wonder what the heck they thought about that?? ha! My son has learned just to stay the heck out of the way when military mom moves on on the game plan.
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Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on May 19, 2011 at 12:26am
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Not to worry, there's always this here, too:
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You're welcome!! :)
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Hi Vicki, I'm a dad here and my son is a corpsman currently in Helmand Province with the 3/2 Marines out on patrols everyday! I HATE DEPLOYMENTS!
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