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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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RTC Graduation

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:

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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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!!

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Comment by TexasDocMom on April 6, 2011 at 11:09am: The video: Two of our hardest working Stormers last week! Check out this PBS NewsHour special with Iraq vet Chris Goehner and his service dog Pele about the invisible wounds of war.

My son just refused, said it was not necessary from his research with his buddies coming back, and didn't want to mess with it. Like he said, I'm co-owner of his bank account, and his next of kin. Beneficiary of his insurance, etc. Maybe if he marries, he'll think differently, but it's all in my lap if something happens. But it won't!

Comment by TexasDocMom on April 6, 2011 at 11:07am

Comment by Dan's Dad (John) on April 6, 2011 at 10:58am: Our son was told by his gunny to definitely have the POA done, I think it was an order LOL. The lawyer we got to do it was a Marine, he wanted to meet Dan to thank him for his service and then told us it was no charge. He said it was the very least he could do for a Corpsman. Gotta love that brothership!

Comment by TexasDocMom on April 6, 2011 at 8:56am: Chief....I couldn't get my son to do all the "to do" lists either. Even the power of attorney...he told me "you and dad are my next of kin, my bank account is connected to yours, you have all my information to pay my bills, and every one of those things is different from state to state...so you live in Texas, I'm in NC and who knows if it would even transfer?". Which, as I came to find out, is true. We had a huge discussion about the power of attorney thing here on the board, can't remember what we decided. That is a little strange about the address, I've used the addresses on the web site successfully. I think I'd go with the one from the command, but just mail letters before trusting a package.

Comment by TexasDocMom on April 5, 2011 at 11:46am: Cheryl/Mark's mom, is your son taking FMTB in Camp Pendleton? or is he assigned with the Navy?

Comment by mikes mom on April 5, 2011 at 11:33am: My son always used satellite phones while in Afg.. I have to say my son was excited to go too last year...

My daughter is taking her Medic training at Fort Sam Houston...

Comment by mikes mom on April 5, 2011 at 11:05am: Cheryl - I have no idea hot to handle it.... I have a son that this deployment he is on a ship with his Marines and I have a daughter almost ready to graduate Medic training... I look at her face and think Not Again ! All I can say is you have the Best support in our groups : ) Come on as much as you can and trust me when my son was deployed last year I would be on at 1 or 2 AM and there was always someone to help me through it... God Bless your Heart..

Comment by TexasDocMom on April 5, 2011 at 9:56am: While I'm thinking of it or I'll forget...:There is a discussion in the discussion section above on the subject of "Care Packages"...please check it out...new moms, you'll get some ideas...experienced moms, add info and suggestions there so they do not get lost in our day to day thread here. Thanks!

Hello, and welcome, Cheryl/Mark's mom...read back over this thread some, and you'll get some idea how moms and dads, too, get through a deployment...sticking together! meltdowns in the grocery stores....and living phone call to phone call! It's all there!! and we share it all with you...you are not alone, someone is always home here so come here anytime it's overwhelming.

Is your son a corpsman? seabee? just the job, don't name units, please....

Comment by hotflashes on April 5, 2011 at 9:29am: Great article about the seabees texas doc mom, thank you for sharing.I have decided to make his deployment a positive thing and so I will talk to him everyday until he leaves if possible. He will be home before he deploys so I will get a head start cooking his favorite foods and to make a list of things to mail him.Ideas are appreciated.With the help of every one here , I know I can get through this.I will not let him see how worried I am, I will only do that here.Thanks!

Comment by Lisa A on April 5, 2011 at 9:27am: Thank you Texas Doc Mom for the article about the Seabees,my son is getting ready for his second deployment back to the sandbox, It's not getting any easer the 2nd time around!!! I'm Still a Train wreck!!!. Great to hear the positive things that are happening over there!!!