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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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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:
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 TexasDocMom on November 30, 2009 at 12:24pm
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I love reading about those coming home!! good for you conneltrsmom!
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Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on November 26, 2009 at 1:30pm
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Happy Thanksgiving to all - just wanted to share that Gary Sinise of CSI NY fame and Forest Gump aka as Lt. Dan's Band will be entertaining the troops in Iraq at 3 pm eastern time on Fox news channel. It is not a live show but Gary has done much to support our troops over the years and thought you might want it out -
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Wishing all of you a Happy Thanksgiving, I know this is the toughest group to write this to, with so many far away and in war zones. The multitude of prayers going up in your children's names will include giving military parents strength to keep that voice calm on the phone and tears later in the shower! I hope you each hear from your kids over the weekend and enjoy the family and friends that are with you today.
Today I will be sitting at my daughter's table with two Iraq war vets...my son and my SIL who was an Army Ranger in the Gulf War. We will be so thankful they are there with us, and we will not forget you or your children in our blessing.
Wear stretchy clothes today....
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Help us all find our way, with focus on these families losing their children to war and those with children in harm's way, Heavenly Father.
I'm someone who believes in praying quietly and privately, sharing this here because I need to, I hope you don't mind.
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Special prayers for this young Marine and his family and loved ones. And for all of you waiting at home for the 2/2 to return. I'm sorry, Kristine. So sorry. Please share my condolences with your Marine moms, they are in my prayers every single day.
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you're welcome, Cathy. Spread it around, I put up the link on my facebook and I'm getting a good response, repost! send it around to all your friends and family that ask what they can do. This is easy to do, you don't even have to wrap it up and mail it! If anyone's church group, civic group or club is looking for a project, here it is!
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Navy/army, fox sox!! my son loved them!! yes, they are expensive, but every one that gets them LOVES them...they are military boot socks, protect their shins and evidently are the best thing on the Planet Earth. My son still wears his here at home. You can order them online, and they will ship directly to your son. FoxSox web site.
Ladies, I just discovered that fox sox has a wish list, I guess you can send socks to others that need them and don't have anyone to send them.! I'm going to check that out.
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Prayers being offered, how tough for these young people when they lose a loved one while they are far away.
Lora, we laughed when we read this line: The only reason I had all that information on the first deployment is I was with him when he left. If that's not the simple truth! I knew there was a parent's group of some sort and told my son "put my name, email and phone number" on every list that asks for it. It's the one piece of advice I give every new military mom, tell you kid it's okay to share your contact information. I'd rather get too much than nothing!!
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Lora, especially if Gibson is your real last name! please PM your personal information to other Navy moms, do not post it online for any one to read and have! It's just not the safe thing to do, for yourself or for your sailor.
thanks!
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Marines fly in too, when they are deployed overseas, they are great on keeping families informed, it's sad when you cannot be there but still get all those calls! I still got a great photo tho, and it's my favorite one!! boots down, North Carolina!! fresh off the bus from the planes...
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