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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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RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

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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 mikes mom on May 12, 2011 at 11:30am: TDM Adorable!!!

Stop and Smell the Roses

Comment by TexasDocMom on May 12, 2011 at 9:27am: Henry sez..."there ain't nothing like cat naps"....try one today!!

Comment by TexasDocMom on May 12, 2011 at 9:20am: Chief, MT and Susan are right...please take a breath, and calm down. I know it's very simple of me to type those words "CALM DOWN" but you need to take care of you. If you are not sleeping, and what the doctor sent is not working, then make an appointment with your doctor, tell him the amount of stress you are carrying in person, and ask for suggestions. Second, you cannot take on more stress, you can do what you can do...you are not responsible for a whole school in A...you are not. Keep the packages flowing to your son and his unit, of course, but do not build up any more work for yourself. Maybe one package from you for the school, and follow MT's suggestion about the church or local schools. Contact the PTA there. Give them an address to mail the packages to...tell them to mark the outside "school supplies" and you have done what you should and can do.

Get outdoors, it's spring. Mow the yard, dig in the garden, hell...dig a swimming pool by hand, walk the dog until he refuses to go....do some physical things that will tire you out and work with your sleep aids to help you rest. "Stay busy" doesn't mean take on the world's problems, girl!! Go sit in the quiet of a library and read a book that doesn't say the word "war" one time. Rest.

Those remarks people make? you're right, they are stupid remarks. We would like to think from just ignorant people, not non caring people, just ignorant. And our kids would want them to remain ignorant of the pain of having a child in a war zone, because that's how they are. Altho I did have a time or two when I said to a couple of folks who didn't have a clue "and where does your child serve? oh, yeah, he doesn't..." and walked away. Cuz I'm bitchy like that sometimes....I'm really not suggesting it, but I have to tell you I had momentary thrill when they could not respond...because they simply DO NOT KNOW the pain and the fear.

I join all here in praying for you to get some rest, take some breaths, hug your dog, and take it one day at a time. Your son is well trained, he's serving with other well trained young warriors like himself, under a command that is determined to bring these young Americans home safe and sound to you. Let that commander do the worrying, you do the packing and sending. Our kids have to stay focused on the job, not worrying about those of us at home.

Please know you are in our prayers, and please, take a long walk today. You are not alone, and you don't have to do it all by yourself.

Comment by Much Trouble on May 12, 2011 at 6:08am: Chief88...I know we stress keeping busy to keep the bad thoughts away, but it sounds as though you are keeping too busy. Relax...breathe...set a timer for 30 minutes and go in your back yard and watch clouds floating past.

YOU can NOT furnish a school with all they need. Maybe you could contact a church or scout group to help. Write a letter to the Editor of your local newspaper asking if anyone has ideas on who you can contact. There are many community groups looking for a worthwhile project. How about checking with your local high school principal? If all the kids donated 1 spiral notebook each, you would have more than enough! As I said, you can't to it ALL yourself, but you CAN spread it around. (Maybe you can involve the clueless folks in your life...it would be good for them and good for you!)

Most of all, take care of yourself!!! Your son does not need a Mom who is falling apart! Give the meds a chance to work...many of them take a little while before you notice a difference.

Comment by TexasDocMom on May 11, 2011 at 10:52am: Your son sounds like mine "mom, just send what I tell you to send..." which at that time was all the stuff needed to rehab an old dart board set...repair stuff, and of course, they got a lot more than he bargained for...but whoever uses that dart board probably did not need darts, etc for a long, long time!

Duct tape is very handy...doesn't work well for duct work, I hear, but it holds the rest of the world together.

Would moleskin work to go undert that duct tape where those laces go up the leg?

Comment by Dan's Dad (John) on May 11, 2011 at 10:49am: TDM- it was called moleskin. You made me think duct tape may be in the next care box! Wife's work collected and put 12 boxes to send to him, we were in awe. She knew they were collecting to send him stuff but nobody imagined how it grew. He'll hate it but we know he'll share with his platoon.

Comment by TexasDocMom on May 11, 2011 at 10:41am: John, you've nailed the sock needs...Fox Sox for when they can wear them, for the absolute luxury of the sox!! and when those boots just rub so much on the shins (my son said they use duct tape to stop the rubbing on their skin). But Fox Sox soak up so much moisture that they are not good for wet conditions. Cheap white tube socks for everyday and yes, they toss them out for the most part.

What was it we used in Scouting for blisters...mole? is that what it was called? the thin brown stuff to keep boots from rubbing?

Comment by Dan's Dad (John) on May 11, 2011 at 9:12am: We bought him the Fox Sox for Christmas and he said that was the best present, imagine that, a kid at Christmas excited about socks! LOL

Comment by Dan's Dad (John) on May 11, 2011 at 9:11am: My son requested tube socks. We had bought him several pairs of the Fox Sox and he loves them but wants a supply of disposable socks too.