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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.
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:
**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
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:
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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In the late 60s, my dad had an isolated assignment to Korea. We had a very elaborate stereo system in our house in Texas. Daddy kept us up to date by tape recordings. On one tape, my dad asked my brother to set up the headphones and for us kids to leave the room, so mom could listen to what he said, privately. Oops, Mom came to say she couldn't hear anything. That was because brother had switched to outdoors speakers and the neighbors were being treated to mushy things Dad had to say to Mom. I think Skype is better!
TennNM...Our sons last deployment was with a Marine Unit. He made some awesome friends!! Maybe our sons will be standing side by side someday.
Without a doubt, growing up a military brat makes being a Navy mom or dad easier. I was born in an Air Force hospital and will be buried on a Navy base.
I thank God for Skype. We only saw our grandparents every three to four years and my children grew up as Dept of Army Civilian brats, mostly overseas, so only saw grandparents when we went back to the States every couple of years. My parents had retired in the Panama Canal Zone so it was rare that we were on the same continent.
Tenn Navy Mom, your son's years in the Navy have been much more difficult for you than my son's have been for me. His first deployment was not physically dangerous and I was unaware of the danger on his second until after the fact. Next one will be scary but I have no idea where it will be and that is probably for the best.
Right now, the most difficult part of being a Navy mom is having our three grandchildren too far away to see them regularly. The older two have spent more time with us but the baby is only 8 months old and we are missing all the things he is doing. Again, thank God, for Skype!
I'm a veteran of both worlds. My dad served almost 30 years in the Navy with each of us siblings being born on different bases. I was born in Newfoundland (on a NAS that is not even there any longer), the rest range from Texas, California, Utah. My son did his four and then re-upped when the 2/2 was headed to Afghanistan, but thankfully, Ma Navy moved him to another battalion since he didn't re-up in time. One of the few times I have appreciated his lazy habit of waiting to the last minute. He was at 29 Palms for a brief time, then in charge of the Methadone Clinic at Lajuene. Boy, that was an eye opener and so very sad. Then they moved him to Camp Bullis in San Antonio to be an instructor and he was an hour from home! Now he's safely out, I can say I wish he'd had some of the stations that would take him to Europe or Hawaii, I would have loved to have visited him there. He mainly made war zones.
I know with the current situation, our war zones are shifting, and your fear has to be overwhelming. So much we just don't know, and quite frankly, I don't want to know. I think it's good that the Navy is keeping lids on where people are so no one is chatting on social media about it. I am one to believe that military matters should be kept close to the chest. I have no patience with those who want "openness" when it comes to the safety of our troops.
IDCmom, my son looked seriously at that, he was offered whatever he wanted to do to stay in. He told his CO he was a corpsman and to him that meant greenside. He didn't mind being an instructor but if he stayed in he wanted to go back to the Marines. IDC is a very intense job, good on your son for being so qualified to do it!
My IDC corpsman has just gone over 12 years. There was a brief period when he thought it was time to leave but reconsidered. I think it is the best thing for him and his family.
JerseySusan,
Oh, I envy your son his assignment in England. A hundred years ago (ok, not that long ago) it was my husband's assignment right after we got married. I was not command sponsored so money was really tight but absolutely our most fun years pre children.
I wish my son would get some great assignment but he seems destined to ping pong back and forth to the west and east coasts.
Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. Coming into the month of Dec., we've had a few announcements. Our youngest will be leaving his "paradise" base in Ft Walton, to do 3 years in England. So, we are going from a 6hr drive, to an 8hr plane flight. We are happy for him, he's wanted this for a while, but me, I'm not so happy, just a little sad if I'm being selfish. Of course, situations over in Europe are even now more challenging then they were a few years ago. But, I'll just put in the hands of God. And, on the other hand, he has proposed to his girlfriend of whom we all Love & Adore. He couldn't have chosen a better person to stand beside & take abroad with him, she's 'perfect'.
I always look for the "like" button!
Pam, my son was right at 7, he had to decide to go for broke or leave. Thankful he fell in love and left, altho I know he misses his buddies and his job all the time.
This additional 3 years will put him at 8 years and 7 months. When he signed on for Hawaii he had to extend his 5 year contract. And thanks TDM - he looks just like my Dad.
What does that bring him up to? Look at at that handsome sailor!
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