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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.
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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 September 24, 2009 at 12:10pm
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tonib, I'm glad you have here to vent, I know it's hard to not say anything to your son. My son, before this new assignment as an Instructor in San Antonio, was hell bent to deploy again. I hope this keeps him busy enough doing what he feels is important to stop that urge. He's on volunteer lists, so I don't know.
You said he is "trying" to extend, hopefully, his command has American soil plans for him. good luck!
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My son always said that too, Penny...then he'd request a few things, like stuff to rehab the dart boards, etc. Don't forget foxsox.com to get him those military boot socks sent to him, my son swears by them. My son also liked getting salsa, which was a challange but Costco had plastic jugs already wrapped up. Those little flavor packets that go in bottle water, I dent soft pillow cases, sand is so itchy. Lotions, lots of lotions, my son laughed at first, then told me that they used every drop of them. Put everything in baggies, big ones, little ones, and add extra baggies, he said they used those as well, kept every thing in baggies.Movies for watching on the computer...there might be a group that has more ideas about what to send.
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The problem begins with the command of their units. Many Marines and soldiers, sailors...are discouraged from being diagnosed with PTSD. They are told that no good companies will hire them if they leave the military with that diagnosis, that they are just not "man" enough to handle their jobs, that their wives and families will be afraid of them...It's built into the training...."man up"... It's absolutely scary.
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How humbling is it to think that you have problems and then come here to read these posts about you moms with your lives on the line with your children's as they are deployed across our world?
We "forget" about the pain of childbirth and do it again! but it's been almost a year since my son came back from Iraq and I still know that fear and anguish and pain of not hearing from him for weeks, of not knowing he is SAFE, and the relief that typing in this board brought to me. I hope it brings each of you that same comfort and I thank you for sharing your children, your thoughts and your fear with me and the rest of us here. You are not alone.
on a lighter note...those at Camp Lajuene....my son has discovered a place there with all you can eat tacos for 6.99....his buds took him there for his birthday, and evidently they are "real" tacos and they are making repeat trips, despite my inquiry about "mystery" meat..."good mystery meat, mom"...He ate 19 his first trip! and the 4 of them ate a total of 81! so, I'll find out the name if any one is interested for their kid...especially you Texas moms.
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thank all of you! I just found out you posted! no gmail for me this afternoon!
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I am very blessed, Courtney...my son is at Camp Lajuene, waiting for funding to come to San Antonio to be an instructor in the Corpsman School there in October or so ( sometime this fall! I hope!) and will be 65 miles from my front door for holidays and weekends! I am so excited! our dog is so excited ( or will be when she figures it out!) and my yard is so excited....all my neglected "too hard" projects will be started from a 4 year list!
He'll be there with a buddy that has gone the whole way with him, from school to deployments, etc...they are pretty excited to be looking for an off base apartment, etc...and good Mexican food!! We're planning a big Thanksgiving this year!! he says he's bringing "everybody" that can't go home!!
Mainly, I'm happy because this is something that has him excited to do, he's looking forward to it and I'm not hearing things like "being deployed isn't so bad, there's always something to do..." from him, because I know he's on that volunteer list for back up corpsmen (whatever it's called...).
But we have 3 more years to go...we'll see. thanks for asking!
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Jeannie, it is absolutely critical that you stay on this group. My son returned safely home last year, I am still here. First of all, you have invaluable experience and advice...second, your emotions are not done yet, at least mine aren't. I feel a connection with every person posting on this board. My prayers for my son transfer to yours and everyone's child here. I see this notification in my email and if there are several in a row, my heart jumps, I want to make sure it's good news, like your son coming home safely. Every time I read about a safe return, in a small way it's like seeing my son's photo that Cher took that day at Camp Lajuene when he was first boots down.
The more eyes on this board, then it's likely that when that mom that is up all night not sleeping posts here so scared, someone like you or me will be here to respond, and reach out. You are very important to the other moms, we all are.
Then there's this: my son has 3 more years as a Corpsman, and we all know that we NEVER know when deployment may come again. I needed this board last year, and I may again. I appreciate the voices here.
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Comment by Paymaster on August 29, 2009 at 10:35am
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Jeanie....Mine has been stateside about 6 weeks now. For now I plan to stay with this group. They are very supportive and maybe my experience that I have gained through 3 deployments may help someone else.
Enjoy your visit. I am still waiting to see mine.
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Did ya'll get a notification from "Janet" about a lost sailor? and fox sox? If you know this mom, please tell her that those foxsox have to be ordered online, she's looking in stores for them. thanks...
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NAMom, I can understand your concern! But, the US has been building huge air bases over there since Bush invaded, and taking over ones that the Russians and others have left. Alot of the billions of dollars spent there has been on infrastructure for our troops. I'm sure anyone scheduled for surgery is in a modern up to date hospital in a safe place or he would be sent out of country. My son is a corpsman, the Navy has the place packed with them.
Those would be my thoughts if that was my son, but I'd still worry! let us know anything you find out, good luck!
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