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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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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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Discussion Forum
Son in Spin Boldak
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Care Packages - lists of items, how to order priority boxes and how to fill out customs forms
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Sailors in Afghanistan with boots on the ground
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Comment by mikes mom on April 7, 2011 at 11:44am
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Thanks regina
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Comment by TexasDocMom on April 7, 2011 at 10:31am
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Thanks, Regina! I remember as a child, after my dad died just a couple of years after his retirement from the USN, the Navy Relief literally saved our home a couple of times when Mom was getting all the paperwork straightened out, and before she went back to work. Wonderful organization.
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Ladies and gents, we fight a tough battle here on this thread and group to remain apolitical. NO one here wants to see our military go without a pay check. No one. I have no doubt that those for whom I voted are doing their best to compromise and work this out. I hope you all have the same confidence in those for whom you voted.
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Sir Vette - Thanks for the link : ) I spoke with my daughter last night and that is what she said too... What happens to our soldiers that have families and need their checks ? ! I agree with what Kelly Jo said...
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Comment by Kelly Jo~NavyMomX3 on April 7, 2011 at 8:06am
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Thank you for the news on pay. It is however sad the the President and members of congress will see their pay regularly and they are NOT out there in the line of duty. You all have a wonderful and very blessed day and may the hands of God protect out children and all members of our military from any harm.
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Comment by Debby on April 6, 2011 at 9:44pm
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OK so first I would like to welcome the new Mom's.. sorry you had to join.. but know we are all here.. I think TDM once said.. its a great group that no one wants to be part of... :) haha...
POA's can be completed on base for free.. they need to go to the legal department.. Now not all banks will accept a general POA for those we had them send us a copy of what they wanted and went and had a certified copy made notarized etc and sent back.... it is worth the time and effort to get a list of EVERYTHING they have that is a legal issue and call all of them find out if they will accept a general or one from them, because as that poor girl Tina at Navy Fed found out that a Mom who's son just left for deployment is not really someone she wants to ever speak to again.. :).. and get the first / last name and employee ID # for the person you spoke with and explain your child is going to Afghanistan and once he is gone you need to know you have been given the correct information because you wont be able to get it when his boots leave the US..
When you ask for the persons name and employee ID number.. you force them to take ownership of the information they have given you.. I also had medical power of attorney and advanced directive on both son's when they were deployed..we dont want to think of anything bad happening however having the POA and an advanced directive in hand is a good idea..
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Comment by vettespace on April 6, 2011 at 7:41pm
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Military pay was exempt from the ten shutdowns that occurred between 1980 and 1996, and only the 21-day shutdown in 1996 lasted more than three days.
Under the Food and Forage Act, the military would be funded. The Act goes back into themid 1850s; it's the reason in past shut downs that the military continue to be paid. It applies to active force only.Susan, if your son has missed a check, he should be referring that to his command or the online pay center (name slips me at the moment). Remind me this evening and I'll get the information from my son when he's off duty.Spoke with my son, they will be getting paid, per his CO.And per a sailor in one of the many threads about this with a ton of misinformation on facebook, this morning he posted: We will be getting paid. Only civilians and contractors are up in the air. The MCPON was here and that's what he said.
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And that's why my son said it didn't matter, I do all the bank stuff as co-owner of his account. When his debit card was hacked (about 5 days before deployment!), they called him at midnight, he called me, I was at the bank at opening here, and they were overnighting him a new card that morning. I asked the bank about the POA, and he said as long as I was on that account, there was no problem. I love my credit union.
I'm not discouraging anyone from doing it, it just has worked out for us without one.
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Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on April 6, 2011 at 11:18am
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Re the Power of Attorney, here's my experience - I took one offered free on an attorney's website here in our home state, retyped it adding our info and sent it to my sailor, who had his signature notarized at a local bank in Virginia where he's stationed. He faxed it to USAA (where the legal dept spends two weeks reviewing/approving, just FYI) & also gave a copy to his apartment management. It's proven handy during deployment and even during shore duty when he's working long hours - "mom, can you call the bank & ask about X?" :)
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