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Navy For Moms

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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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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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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You need to be a member of Anyone with Sailors/Soldiers/Marines in War Zones and Combat Areas to add comments!

Comment by TexasDocMom on June 11, 2014 at 10:30am: Congrats and best wishes for your warrior, Pam! and you....you are now a seasoned mom, drop by to check on our moms!

Comment by Tamme on June 11, 2014 at 10:23am: Pam, congratulations! I am so excited for all of you.

Comment by Pam on June 11, 2014 at 9:05am: I want to personally thank each and every one of you for your words of wisdom, words of encouragement and words of understanding. Ya'll make this process so much better. Yes, our boots are back on American soil!! Maybe this mom can sleep a little better.

Comment by Pam on June 5, 2014 at 1:14pm: Hang in there curleytop. I hope peace returns for your son. Counseling even for yourself may help in understanding what he is going through. I know when my younger son had a horrific car accident (without going into details except that we have been to Hell and back with him), we all went to counseling and it helped tremendously. Time and support are huge... (((HUGS)))

Comment by Tamme on June 5, 2014 at 10:32am: Curleytop, I am with you. It is hard to still be "the Mom" and also deal with the personal changes/ramnifications of deployment. My son reminds me to give him time. Personal message me if you need to vent or need any answers. We are all in this together - from boot camp forward, always.

Comment by TexasDocMom on June 4, 2014 at 11:22pm: I don't want to get into the politics of the POW. I'll just say that those 5 people released would probably be released anyway as we draw down in Afghanistan. POWs are released at the end of wars. Bush released over 500 internees from Gitmo. It's part of war.

Curleytop, be sure to look at the links about when your kid returns from the war zone, see if there is any info there that will help you cope. Message privately if you need to vent. You're not alone.

Comment by Curleytop on June 4, 2014 at 11:18pm: Amen, TDM. My son has been home on his battalion leave from his deployment in Afghan. He has returned, is getting an opportunity for 3 meals a day, and all the hugs I can manage to get it. He came back different as I knew he would. He and I have had only one bad morning. It has been so hard to keep those big girl Navy mom panties on during this time. Every phase of his military career is something new. Moms pray for them just as hard when they are state side because they face many difficulties here as well. Keep her chin up, Curleytop.

Comment by JerseySusan on June 4, 2014 at 11:10pm: Thanks for your insight TDM. It is a very hard topic to place on this site. My heart is hurting on all accounts, for what this family is facing now, & how the other families that grieved 5 years ago for the loss of their sons are facing as well. Yes, we can all put ourselves in his mother's place to know that special feeling she will have to hold & see her son again after 5 very long years. I do keep playing the words over & over in my head "Innocent until proven Guilty",but my heart does ache a lot with an emotional let down of 'what, how & why' the 5 'huge' trade off that so many sacrificed their lives for are also now free.

Comment by TexasDocMom on June 4, 2014 at 6:55pm: I know with all the controversy about Sgt Bergdahl 's capture and now return to the US, it is hard to post about it here on our page. I just know this, and I counted on it when my son was deployed: We do not leave any one behind, man or woman, in enemy hands. I know Sgt Bergdahl's mother counted on that, and probably saw her faith in that become mighty thin. As a military mom, I celebrate the return of her son to US hands. What will happen, what or if charges will be filed, she knows he is safe, he is not being tortured, he is eating 3 meals a day and she can see his face and look into his eyes. And before all of that she is going to get that hug that all of us pray for every day our kids are in a war zone. And that's why we are here, to support and comfort our military moms..