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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.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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Navy.com Para Familias
Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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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 Paymaster on April 26, 2011 at 8:57am
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I can see the cover of the book that we are all going to write together. Picture of a snickers bar with a bit out of it and the title "gave themsleves to support so many" :)
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Comment by TexasDocMom on April 26, 2011 at 12:33am
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I don't know a military mom in the whole world that supports war. No one in their right mind would or should...and certainly not those of us who have children who serve and in harm's way.
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Comment by Emilie on April 25, 2011 at 8:05pm
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I think you are amazing women! Glad we can reach out to eachother and know we are not alone when we cry in Costco or the car, when our hearts are filled with pride and heart wrenching pain that no one else quite seems to get. When we think we see our son and remember it couldn't be him cause he is so far away. It is amazing to me how caring and tough and strong you all are - it helps me to be tough and strong for my son too. Thanks for being there all of you!
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I really wasn't looking for applause, I just want to share that these feelings do not go away after you have a child deployed. I saw it in my own family and neighborhood, growing up in a military town with the Viet Nam war as part of our lives. Those moms always reached out to one another. It's easier for us today to reach out.
We did have fires just outside of my town of Austin, in Oak Hill, very close, lost 11 homes and many others damaged. Very scary to have them that close. Thank you for your thoughts!
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It doesn't seem to go away, I have to say that....every kid that deploys takes a part of my heart, and your voices and fingertips every day just makes that life so real to me. I tell people, total strangers...I'm the admin on support board for moms with deployed kids....and I do it to see their faces...to see if they look away, or are they real people, who put their hand on my shoulder, or ask "what can I do?"....(wrong thing to say...cuz you know I tell them!!). And so many of my musician friends say "I've written a song,,," sure wish I could get those songs on one CD and donate the funds to a Wounded Warrior group....as well as get that music out there, so our military knows this country supports them, no matter anyone's view on war itself, our country supports our men and women in uniform.
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Comment by mikes mom on April 25, 2011 at 12:15pm
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Chief all I can say to you is that I totally understand.... I could always cry on a dime and I have to say I still can...
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rysony - OMGosh .. All I can say is PRECIOUS!!!!
TDM : )
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Comment by rysony on April 24, 2011 at 10:34pm
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Wow you go TDM!!!
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whoohooo...kid calls!! I love them!! I got an Easter Basket! came home from work...basket with grass in it, snicker eggs, and a Dove choc rabbit...squeaky toy and dog chewies ( for Rosie, not for me!) I would love to say my son did all of this but I think the lovely girl he's dating had more to do with it...really. I went out this morning and hid all the snickers eggs for the kids in the neighborhood...but I did eat the rabbit. all of it. So here's the wish that you all have an extra special Easter next year...with that rabbit that is SOLID chocolate!
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Dear TDM,Mike's Mom,Susan, Denise, Chief 88 , Much Trouble and anyone I forgot. I hope you had a wonderful Easter. I did. Got to tell a funny story. I was in the shower and when I got out I went to check my cell cause I wanted to charge it. There were 3 missed called. I am like wonder who that was. As I was seeing if a message was there the phone rang from say number. The man said. Where were you at church? I said I am sorry sir I believe you have the wrong number. He said MOM this is your son Ryan!! Oh my gosh. He was at a check point and said they had phones set up so if they were not checking vehicles they could make a call. Told me about his reenlist is the 28th and I said son I am behind you in whatever you decide. After much discussion we hung up and then of course I bawled my eyes out!! Happy late Easter to all of you and our soldiers and may God Bless and keep us all safe. I love you all!!
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