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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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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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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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Son in Spin Boldak
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Care Packages - lists of items, how to order priority boxes and how to fill out customs forms
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Sailors in Afghanistan with boots on the ground
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Comment by Debby on June 8, 2009 at 8:40pm
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Ana congrats on having your sailor home... mine got home from Iraq a couple weeks ago.. but sadly my soldier leaves for Iraq this week.. short lived happiness in my house... but I am so thrilled to hear when the good guys (and girls) come home..
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Comment by TexasDocMom on June 8, 2009 at 2:39pm
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Ana, blessings and congrats to you on a happy day...I know I wept when I saw the picture that cher sent to me when my son was boots down in NC that morning! even tho I had spoken with him and knew he was on US soil...that picture just released a huge torrent of emotion! Please visit this site often, those of us with safe sailors still can provide support for those fighting those emotions will their children are in a war zone...and let's face it, those could be our kids going back again. I know my son knows deployement is in his future again. So, don't drop this group, now is the time to make sure every post is answered! congrats again!
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Becky our prayers are with Michael and you.. let us know as soon as you know.. I am sure he's fine!!! Debby
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Comment by Paymaster on May 22, 2009 at 10:33pm
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Becky.....I am not sure where your son is? But if he is the sand box, it happens. Mine is there now. Its his third tour.
Often when things are going on it takes awhile for communications to get back to normal. They will often take communications down as a security precaution, and it may be a day or so before they get them back.
You are one of the lucky ones your son can have communications with you. There are lots of us that have children that are serving and because of their jobs can't have skype or personal cell phones. Its what they have to do to keep themselves safe and us.
Take a breath, take solace in prayer.
God bless all,
Jody
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Mary Jo...I hope they have been putting the money into building base support there the way they have in Iraq...that is miserable weather, hot or cold. How long has she been there? I know the last couple of months are the hardest for them, they are just done and ready to be home.
Debby, we're half way there, babe! enjoy this time with your boys, and then we start praying the other one home. Like MMK says, we can feel your joy right here with us!! What a great day!
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HE'S HOME!!!!!!!!!!!! My parents drove up to VA Bch last night and picked him up at Norfolk, he's at my sisters house in VA Bch.. he text messaged me said he will call but I have a feeling my mother reminded him of the 3 hour time difference so I got ready for work and the phone is now ringing... Thank you all I would not have gotten through any of this without you..
Karen especially you... you befriended me and stuck by a stranger with your caring support... I adore you my friend...
I am going to enjoy this calm for a bit... I wont think about my Soldiers deployment which is rapidly approaching.. I am going to enjoy even if for a short time having both sons in this great country... much love Debby
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Debby!! just DEBBY!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so happy for you!!
It was the picture cher sent from Lajuene that just put me over the edge, I wept and wept...I had heard his voice, I had emails from him...but that picture, first thing in the morning on my computer with that smile on my baby's face....that was it. He was SAFE.
I'm so happy for you. Just think of the now. We'll worry abour later...later.
Karen
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Karen.. no boots in living room yet but boots will be on the ground in 10 hrs... My parents are picking him up on base tonight and give him a preliminary hug :) I will see him on Monday...
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Yep...my son was there all summer....he said it "wasn't too bad"....but he played baseball in Texas with high humidity and the temp 103....every day....just kept hydrated. Some are cold natured, some are hot! so glad it works out that way.
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Mary Jo, what is the weather like where your daughter is? My son was transferred out of a unit headed there in November...he was really yoyoing about reenlisting, etc...so when I was so delighted, obviously, that he wasn't going to Afghanistan, he said "yeah, it's too damn cold there"....and I said something about just not having to deploy to a war zone...he says "I'll take Iraq, I don't mind the heat."....it's the weather. Good grief, we're here worrying ourselves silly and all they care about is the damn weather. But he is his mother's son, I just do not function well in the bitter cold either. He's reupped for 3 more years, even tho now he's headed closer to home in Texas, I have no doubt that he will be deployed again. I guess that little knot in the bottom of a military mom's stomach is there until they leave the military for good.
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