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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.
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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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 mikes mom on April 24, 2011 at 12:32pm
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Happy Easter !
Chief I am so glad you heard from your son ... Man there is nothing like it !!!!
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Comment by Much Trouble on April 24, 2011 at 11:39am
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TDM...I really LIKE it and wish I had that song when my son was gone. I used Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water", imagining I was singing it to him. (Of course I made the minor change of singing "sail on silver BOY" instead of girl, but it said how I felt.) Unfortunately, while it expressed my feelings, it generated enough tears to make a bridge necessary! LOL (Yes...I confess I come in here and tell everyone how to be strong, but I NEEDED to wallow in my tears at times.)
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Comment by TexasDocMom on April 24, 2011 at 11:12am
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The second song is "Walking on the Moon" ...for some reason, it could hold me together when nothing else could in those dark nights....This was recorded at Taylor Pie's place last night in Liberty TN. Happy Easter, my friends.
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Comment by rysony on April 23, 2011 at 12:54pm
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Chief 88. Bay Pines is known as the Hilton of Vas. It is so nice and everyone that works there is so nice. If you are feeling down that place believe it your not will pick you up fast. I am really getting to know that place finally and not get lost. Vets come from all over to be taken care of or get something done there. There is a Campground right by it and they will stay there and get their stuff done. I have met so many wonderful Vets and their families. I am not sure about your soldiers but mine is very hardheaded. Thinking I can change his mind about anything is a big pipe dream!
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texas Docmom, I am always thinking of you also! It is beautiful here today. I am gonna take you up on that. Yea Ry just said that he will possibly be redeployed. I told him I will just check myself into a psyh ward. Working at Bay Pines is literally one of the best decisions I have ever made. I love it! Keep going by Fisher House. I am gonna stop in soon. They actually built a really nice fishing pier on Boca Ciega Bay behind the Living Facilities. Maybe will drive over there today!
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Rysony, I wish I had words to comfort you. Even with my son over here, he's a year short and the reenlistment question is looming large in our lives. I don't know what I'd do if he was deployed making that decision.
Get out of the house today, hope it's good weather wherever you are...go to the library, or for a walk, or to the closest animal shelter, pet puppies and kitties. Thinking of you!!
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hey all. My son just informed me he was going to reenlist on the 28th of April. Why oh why do they make a decision like that in the sandbox? I'll tell you why because they offer them more R&R if they do. I am sick about this. Not sick that he is reupping but sick he is reupping over there. He does not want to hear it. I truthfully could not take another deployment if he is in Afghanistan.
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It's going to be a tough weekend for you ladies and gents with kids in war zones, holiday weekends really suck....so keep the conversation going!
Glad you made it through Disney without any attacks from 5 year olds, PBear! and your boss sounds like someone who probably would have stepped up to the plate if you had cried on him....who knows, he might have a loved one in a war zone you don't even know about...I met a woman at work the other day with two in the Army, one a medic...both deployed. I told her about this group and invited her to join us. She came up to me the next day to thank me for reaching out. So..you never know.
Chief, keeping an eye on that account is all you can do, it was probably his charge. As to motomail, is there not a space where you enter the address? check the help section. I didn't use it a lot , but if it was "too long" between either email or a call, I'd shoot off on motomail so he'd know home was still here and I was still whining about him being there!
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Chief, I don't know where you looked, But I could NOT find anything for my son when he was over there. It may be part of a security issue.
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Comment by vettespace on April 21, 2011 at 5:03pm
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