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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:
Events
**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
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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Navy.com Para Familias
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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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 Pam on April 2, 2014 at 5:06pm
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Keeping busy are the key words. I found a flash drive my sister had sent me from the time my son came home from Italy on Leave. Sat there and cried like a baby watching him when he came off the plane (we hadn't "seen" him in over 15 months). It's been over a week again since we heard from him last and the last time was just a quick email. Hang in there ladies.
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Comment by MikeysMom2 on April 2, 2014 at 4:10pm
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yes, I was just glad to see the shout out. and, that he called me last week.... fully not expecting to hear from him for a while. anyway, he had received my two packages.... told me not to send so much stuff.... ha ha.... I told him GIVE IT AWAY... that is what it is for, Anyway, I waited a week and sent two more today. I wish I knew if any of your sons were with my son but I guess there is no way to really know. oh well~ are we at least able to say what Co.? or, not. just let me know.
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Comment by TexasDocMom on April 2, 2014 at 3:14pm
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Hang in, hang on, remember you are not alone...and I found this amazing headline today: No casualties in Afghanistan for the first time in 11 years !!!!!!! Keep those cards, packages, letters, prayers and good thoughts headed to your sweeties in A.
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Hello everyone,
I realized after I ranted about technology and OPSEC that I would not have all of you without it. I am so thankful for each and everyone of one. I have survived a deployment because of you. I am so grateful.
nicksmom, When I would read posts in the past, I wondered if those feelings would come. They are real. All you have to do is just focus on taking your next breath. When I did that, I made it to my son's homecoming day.
Joined an exercise group today so that I can be fit when my son comes home on leave. Right now I don't know if I will be able to walk in the morning. But I walked a mile tonight.
Happy thoughts to all.
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Comment by JerseySusan on April 1, 2014 at 8:09pm
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Curlytop...I know what you mean by watching your son sleep. Just before our son left, I caught myself staring & watching his every silly move whether he was in motion or not and telling myself to always remember his sights & feelings.
We are at our half-way mark today. :)
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Saw Mine on emarine.... YaY! Those shout outs are GREAT!!!! Thanks Ruby for posting!!!
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Thank you for sharing curlytop. Made me smile through the tears!
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yes, definitely. can't wait til I have that feeling!!!
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Curleytop! in tears here, I know how that feels, just watching them sleep....glad he is home safe and sound, and my prayers for all those in war zones. Glad you didn't hurt that dad....but I do not blame you for being angry!
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Nicksmom...so proud you talked with your son. You will learn that no matter what number it is, you will answer because you never know if might be your son, just in case. You will also learn that you will answer no matter what time of the day it is or what you are doing. I became obsessed with having my phone with me while my son was on deployment.
I also have a different view of OPSEC. I realize it is not the military that I am angry with the times in which I live. I guess what I am trying to say is that while waiting for our son to arrive my eyes were opened. I knew why OPSEC was there but I did not value it much being a civilian. I respected the rules to protect our son and all the other sons coming home with his unit. Anyway, while we where waiting I over heard a dad say, "I put the Welcome Home banner out on Facebook. I just could not wait. I cheated." After I hear him say that I turned to my husband and said please hold me down. I was so angry. So very angry. I had a speech all planned for that guy about how he not only put my son in danger but his as well. Then I simmered down and realized they were in the USA by then and could not be delayed. It just made me mad to think that we are specifically instructured not to give out information so that our men in services will not come to harm By the times we live in, I mean technology has changed things so drastically that information can be received in a millisecond. Then some "parents" choose to do as they please. OK, I know I probably should not be on a soap box right now but that dad did make me so angry for a few minutes. I got over it but I respect OPSEC a lot more.
I was great to see other Marines and Corpsmen there to welcome home the unit. They helped unload their bags. They helped put their buddy's bags together. Everyone had three bags to find. It was a wonderful experience. Our son was not really ready for crowds and other people so we ordered movies on demand, went through drive thrus to feed him, took him to the closest NEX to by Navy supplies. One morning he slept in and I just watched him sleep. It was that best part of my day.
TexDocMom...no picture of that mom hug. His dad and I were separated at that time by the crowd. It is a moment I shall not forget.
I am so thankful he is back on U.S. soil. A feeling only deployment moms can know. Whatever stage you are in with your military journey there hope. My husband and I went to a concert that afternoon waiting for our son. It was for the military kids on base. I never meet a strange and I was talking to some of the military wives around us. When we left I thanked one of the husbands for his service. He had been listening and knew we were there for our son's return. This man stopped and thank me for my service. I said that I had not served. He said, "Yes, you have by raising your son to serve and continuing to support him." I almost cried. No one has ever done that before. So all you moms and dads out there, thank you for your service. You are a great bunch.
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