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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.
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.
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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
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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.
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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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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 August 13, 2009 at 10:42am
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Does your son's unit have a parent coordinator? go to his unit's web site, find those links to "family readiness" and the commander's newsletter home, they will be vague about the time but might give you some phone numbers or email addresses to get in contact with...the chaplain's link would be good as well. good luck!
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Mary Jo...congratulation!! it's a wonderful way to start the day, with news like that!! hugs from all her Navy moms...and sleep well tonight.
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I know my son's commanders took a great deal of pride in the fact that everyone came home safely on that last deployment, it was their goal. It's always their goal.
Wanda, we all know your fear and we share it with you; You've come to the right place to talk and tell us about it, and we will always be here. I'd like to tell you that your fear will shrink, go away, but it didn't for me, and when I read posts like yours, it brings it right to the forefront again even tho my son is safe on US soil. But...we will all help you carry it.
He'll be there for the winter? I hear it's bitter cold, what's in your plan for packages, alot of moms here with experience with that....and don't forget the foxsox.com socks. Altho, as a seabee, he'll be building stuff, do they do that when the weather is rotten? CAN they do that when the weather is rotten? Maybe he won't be where it is so cold...!
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Comment by Debby on July 31, 2009 at 8:49am
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Kristine my Army son asked me to send him chewing tobacco.. so I am guessing if it was free on bases he wouldnt have.. unless of course they dont have what he wanted...
I have sent my son's jerky which contains pork, no porn but I know one of his buddies gets playboy.. and I sent my Navy son cards and poker chips too and there was no issues.. as long as they stay on the base they should be ok.. I was never told anything other than Thanks Mom! now we can play poker!
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good news, Lynda!
When my son was onboard the ship for the MEU, he wanted girly mags...now, get past the thought of his mom wandering around one of those places to buy the damn things, ( and, no I did NOT go in the back rooms...ewww) which is a pretty funny story in itself. I think the guy behind the counter felt sorry for me. When I took them to the post office it read "magazines" on the list...and this woman proceeds to dress me up and down about inspections and those "types" of mags, etc...and the guy behind me says.."lady, I'm a vet and I'm telling you no one cares, just send the kid his magazines.." So, I told my son...and he was livid..."We are US Sailors and Marines, not jail birds we can read what we want!" then he sent me a photo of the 40,000 lbs of mail that arrives at one time on a ship and says "do you think these are being searched for magazines, mom?"
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Fox Sox link
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Jeannie, send pictures to him...do you have a myspace or facebook account? sometimes they jump on there to update themselves and connect with home and the US when they just have a moment...they love photos of home, dogs, their families, the backyard....all that stuff. New ones..old ones...just pictures to see and show their buddies.
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Jeannie, he just needed to hear YOUR voice, you did hold him, he knows.
I'm happy for you, and I know exactly what you mean.
Get those pictures going on myspace or facebook or in emails, the house, the dogs, the yard, the neighbors, the green grass and flowers, home....and you and his family!
but you got a call!! that's so good!
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Comment by Paymaster on July 28, 2009 at 8:57am
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Jeannie.....You are so right the unspoken word can speak volumes. Live for today, you got a phone call. It so hard when they are far and few between.
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Comment by JJ on July 27, 2009 at 3:50am
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While my son is home from Afghanistan, I asked him about packages being sent to Iraq and Afghanistan. This is what he said, "If the package is going to a APO/FPO, don't worry too much about what's in it, except if there is anything in it that will melt or spill, put that in a zip-lock bag". Alcohol and magazines that have any sort of nudity in them will NOT make the inspection there! Anything going to a APO/FPO first goes to a US base first, than it gets put on a military plane to where ever your son or daughter is.
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