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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:
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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
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:
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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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!!
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 TexasDocMom on May 6, 2011 at 1:03pm
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Welcome to the group no one wants to join, Jen!! but no one ever seems to be able to leave. Most of the parents here are moms of FMF corpsmen, Seabees and some other jobs that get deployed to Afghanistan....we do not generally share information about units or exact locations here, we try to follow OPSEC regs as we've been asked by the admins of NavyForMoms. We also try to avoid putting out information allowing anyone to be able to connect a mom/dad to a specific sailor or Marine or soldier. In other words, since this is a public board, we don't trust all who may come to read it. (besides, some of our kids come read here and call to say ..."you can't say that, get it down off that board!"...so we try to behave.
What we do do here is give moms/dads/spouses a place to chat, rant, cry and scream with joy together...to remind all that being afraid when your child is in a war zone is a normal thing, crying is a normal thing...and well meaning friends may not always understand that...but we do. You are not alone as you go through the next few months, come here when it gets tough...and come back again when your corpsman is safe and sound at home to pay it forward with the next new group of moms.
So glad you are hearing from your son! that means some nights you sleep well!!
nice to meet you!
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I want to reemphasize to folks new to this group, if you send a message out to all members, no one can respond to it. The best way to introduce yourself is right on this page, we all have notifications set up for this. Altho we have a lot of members listed there is usually a core group of moms with kids currently deployed and those of us "old" moms who work and visit the page to make sure all needs are addressed. So, to Jen, who sent a message around, we cannot communicate with you by that message, please introduce yourself here and please, do not share your son's unit information here. Thank you! we are here whenever you need us!!
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Susan, I'm so sorry to have missed your post last night, I know this has been so hard for you...and the wonderful break of having your son being able to come home before deployment will bring you so much joy and comfort. I can't imagine having two kids deployed at the same time, but we have others here who do know that insanity...once we had a mom with 3, yes THREE kids deployed at once. I'm afraid you'd have to just put me in a rubber room and toss food in the door for that whole time. I have such respect for you moms that get through that...and I'm delighted to hear you son is NOT reenlisting! ( does that make me unpatriotic...nope!! we've done our time!!)
Stay close, remember you are not alone....blessings.
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Comment by mikes mom on May 5, 2011 at 6:52pm
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I will arrive around 1 pm tomorrow and leave Monday at 6pm.. Do you live near by????
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Mike's mom, how long are you going to be in Central Texas?
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rysony - Thanks : ) This is my gift from my daughter.. I am so excited : )
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Comment by rysony on May 5, 2011 at 6:37pm
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wow Mike's Mom!! So Happy for you enjoy!! Happy pre Mother's Day!!
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I am leaving for Ft Sam Houston for mothers day soooo I would like to say Happy Mothers Day to all you wonderful Moms : )
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TexasDOC Mom okay you know and I am so thankful for you! The God Bless them for finally figuring it out! You get it! You know all about boys! (men) (sons). So very glad you are always here for us!
I was thinking of ordering the book A Heart and a Fist by Eric Dreigens? (sp) For my son. Saw him interviewed. He is a Navy SEAL. Book sounds so good. Goes into you have to have the heart before you have the fist!
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Rysony, my son told me they spend a lot of time talking about home and their moms, and what lousy kids they were (my son was not a lousy kid, a typical teen boy, but NOT a lousy kid!) and how horrible they have been to us moms and how they are going to make it up to us. I started getting
"I love you" at the end of every phone call , and that still happens! I'm still in shock over the Easter basket this year. They learn, Rysony, they learn who counts and who does not. I get livid when I find out school buddies or old friends are not writing or staying in touch with our kids in the military. It is is hurtful to our kids...but they know MOM is always there. God bless them for finally figuring it out!! Yeah, frame that email!!
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