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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.
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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
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
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Sailors in Afghanistan with boots on the ground
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Comment by TexasDocMom on May 1, 2009 at 1:54pm
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Gloria!!! great news!! hug photos, please...
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Chris, I meant to comment earlier when I saw you had two sons in the sand right now. I do not see how you stay sane, girl. One of our moms in another group has a Navy son and Army son, both were deployed at the same time, you can just feel the joy radiating off of her now they are both OUT of there. I wish the same for you. That pure JOY when you know your child is safe...never mind right here in your huggin' arms, but just safe and sound. It is something to always look forward to the whole time they are out of the country.
You moms that have that double and triple stress level have my greatest admiration, and blessings to you while you wait this out.
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Well, first of all...as my mom the nurse for 50 years had us do, and as I've shared this with hundreds of people. When you feel that blister throb on your lip, you know the one I'm talking about...take an anticid...my mom's favorite was good ol milk of magnesia, just a half a teaspoon, and a little dabbed on the spot. Many times that will stop the attack right there. No acidic foods, no caffiene, no tomatoes, no strawberries...lots of bland yogurt and club soda. It really helps!!
Second...if you cannot handle driving to the airport, don't go. I don't know how else to put it. My ex breaks down as well...but I love to see that little gleam of pride in my son's eyes, when he can see I'm just not going to let it happen, he loves it. He knows it tears me up, but he isn't going to see me weeping at the curbside, and he likes that. He won't let us go to the gate with him, altho military families can do that with advanced planning.
You can do this Tammy, you can. You have your DIL to think about and that sweet baby coming. He needs your strength so he can do his job and focus on coming home. If I can do it, so can you. Start practicing! cry in the shower...no one sees....
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yes...as a child, I had the family curse...herpes simplex....'fever blisters'...and through my teen years and early adulthood, every time my stomach went acidic, from stress or partying...my mouth and lips broke out, even with my mom's cure-all (which worked usually) of an antacid as soon as that lip began to throb. But it had settled down after menopause, but...in August last year it began, and September and October, it was hell. Cold sores, fever blisters...no matter what you call them, they were back...with all the side effects of nausea, and lethargy, depression....on going, I just could not get rid of them. No matter what I did...old cures, new cures...
Then my son came home. Haven't had one since...
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Lori, that is a blessing. My son left twice! not on two deployments, the same one...we said goodbye at the airport at Christmas, then his unit's departure was delayed and he took another leave...so we did it again. And he said no to us walking him even all the way to the gate (the airline gives that option to military families) because "it'll be too emotional"...then he deployed on my birthday! Boy, did he NOT want to give me that date in advance!
and yes, I agree totally on the "no news is good news"..how many moms over the generations of war have learned that lesson?
MMK, I'd have to slap anyone who made fun of you...I know what you've been through....how's you son doing?
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Once you've posted on this site, whether your child is deployed or not any longer, it's home. And home is always there for you. My son is safe in the US right now, but I will not leave this board. It's the one thread that I check when I get in late at night from work, no matter how tired I am....and I always try to respond to any one that needs a good word or a cyber thought of hugs.
I've opened my page up again, any of you are welcome to comment and rave or rant or cry or cheer, I'll always respond.
Just keep your fingers busy, and your brain praying...it'll be all right.
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Kathy, I'm so sorry. I don't know what else to say, just that I know it's hard for your SIL and for you to hear his sadness. And to think of that life lost.
My SIL was also Army, Army Ranger in Iraq during the Gulf War.
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Well, home from my birthday dinner...and my son in law said "skin so soft" worked "as good as anything" for applying while out...he was in Iraq for over a year...he also recommended shaving every area that can be shaved comfortably. In fact the first word he said when I asked him what worked was "a razor".
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Diatomaceous Earth kills fleas bed bugs etc ...and doesn't harm people or pets. It's a powder, tho, don't know if it's mailable to war zones...but if they sprinkled and swept it into the crevices around their bed, it would help. I spray with garlic, commercial brand :Garlic Barrier...again, sand fleas are nasty, but I'd try everything...good old seven dust, but it's a poison.
If they are up to try it, I'd send the Garlic Barrier, it comes in a plastic container, and you can send a hand garden sprayer or spray bottles. The garlic smell does not linger to the human nose...but it gets rid of fleas, ants...(and the mold on roses, but that's another story).
I'm on my way to my son in law's who was in Iraq in the Gulf War, I'll ask him what they used.
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Ladies, I just thought I'd share a message from another Navy mom from another board. She belongs to a group of volunteers that "sees off" the troops when they stop from CA on their layover in Minnesota...and they do this for every single flight that goes through that airport.
Last minute flight through MSP--we had two hours notice (for arrival at 0230), then a gate change, then a time change (arrived at 0130)--but we were there and ready--and McDonald's provided sandwiches for the troops. What an intrepid group of volunteers--never want to miss the chance to give a good Minnesota sendoff...but boy are we tired...
My son went into Maine, slept on the floor of the airport waiting to leave the country..he sounded a little jealous when I told him about my friend's group of volunteers! The troops in Minnesota get pillows and blankets!
I asked her to thank all of those volunteers for all of us military moms. Isn't it nice to know they are hearing voices full of love, and getting hugs before they head off to harm's way?
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