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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
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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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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
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Comment by CTmomof3 on March 16, 2009 at 8:25pm
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Ok, what's blueside and greenside? Missy, my husband works at Quantico.
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Comment by TexasDocMom on March 16, 2009 at 5:42pm
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He promised.
No, he reenlisted, and chose 3 sites he'd be interested in going to..he's ending up at NASCC (Corpus Christi, TX...my home town!) and only 3 hours from right here at my door! But he said that one means most likely he'll deploy again. He'll be going blueside there, but greenside again if he deploys. Then, the little twit calls to say..."being on base for 3 years will be boring, I'll definitely be deploying somewhere sometime..."
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Ladies, and the occasional gent, I have left a link to this group in the Corpsman's mom group. More and more will be deployed to Afghanistan, as well as the usual to Iraq, with Marine units. I also encourage any military mom I meet online on my other boards to at least come here to read our posts.
It is a blessing in my life that my son, altho he reenlisted, will not be deployed in the near future...but I'm sure that won't last his whole enlistment. In fact, he says he'll deploy again. So I'm not going anyplace, probably wouldn't anyway. My heart is with this group, and if I can't do anything else to step up for our military, I can hold the hands of the moms who raised them.
As I said in the corpsman mom's group, once you reach this level of a deployed loved ones in Iraq or Afghanistan or any other danger zone, you stop being only a Navy mom...we are military moms in this group, it doesn't matter in which military our loved ones serve, here we are all the same.
When I meet a Navy mom, that's how I introduce myself. When I meet a Marine mom, an Army mom, another corpsman's mom...I find myself saying Military mom. I'm damned straight not ashamed to be Navy, but, like their children, my son has been in the sand, it's something we just share. It's like a code of sorts.
and of course, a Marine's mom has to hug me...they know our Docs.
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Comment by Dyon Abbott - Kevin's Mom on March 15, 2009 at 9:08pm
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Hello Everyone:
As I read through your posts from the past few days, the tears well up inside me. As the mom of a sailor that's been deployed four times now during Operation Enduring Freedom, I can tell you the 'Good-byes' are gut-wrenching; the time in between is spent on pins and needles - hearing on the news that sailors have been lost, waiting to hear from your loved one - then when you do hear from them, the utter elation!! And, the 'Welcome Home's' are the absolute BEST!
Keep your faith, moms! My prayers are with each of you.
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Comment by Debby on March 15, 2009 at 12:56pm
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When my son told me last week that it looks like the orders are changing and he's going to Afganistan and not Iraq I wanted to die... I held my composure while we spoke and I told him I wasnt worried they are sending tons of you guys there so your going to be better off due to the shear numbers... he said "Mom don't worry, I have a good head on my shoulders I know what to do to stay safe" When we hung up I fell apart.. 1 in Iraq 1 in Afganistan soon and my guts are wrenched... Its important that we hold it together for them.. the last thing we need is to have them worrying about us... so its important to say the right thing to them... I'm still torn up inside.. but I will be ok... we will all be ok.. we have each other and I get my strength through other Mom's... Debby
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So, there is hope? I pray for the day. Funny the GF said almost the samething to me yesterday. He knows is family will always be there so he doesn't need to "treat us nice" call etc. However he shoud know by now don't Poff mom if you want her to send you things. I know the GF won't (she's a poor college kid) send the same stuff a mom would.
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But when those boys come home from being deployed to the sand, alot more of them do get it. My son was a good kid growing up, but he came home from Iraq and has repeated apologized for not being a good son.."I treated you bad,mom, I'm sorry."...he said it is a big topic of conversation over there, family and home and loving your parents...so, they learn it's okay to be a little emotional. He does not get off the phone now without telling me he loves me. He sent a second email the other day with " I forgot" as the subject and "I love you , mom, " as the message when he didn't do it the first email. something changed. They'll get it. and he doesn't know if that GF will be there when he comes home, mom ain't going no where.
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Thanks for all the encouraging words. I didn't get to talk to Ryan much the last month before he left. So the day I knew he was leaving I wrote down everything I wanted to say so I wouldn't forget. Carried the paper every place I went just in case I got the call. When the call came I pulled out the paper and could barely get the words out but I did. What does he say to me "mom I'll be fine what's the problem I gotta go" He always has to go when I get emotional.. Then I find out he's alreay called the GF twice. Boys just don't get it.
Part of me knows he'll be fine, then the worry part of me takes over.
Susan
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I think one of those times I realized how grown up my son was was when I looked up at him when it was one of those deployment good byes...and saw the little gleam in his eyes, realizing that I was so close to losing it but would not until he was gone. And the intensity in his voice when he said "it's just a deployment, I will be home in 7 months. "
Ladies, I'm in the middle of work hell tonight, have to get up early tomorrow for another wedding...but I just want you to know you are not alone...we know. We know. All of us who come to this page know your pain and your anguish and your lonesome heart.
Your child will come home to you. Mine did. Yours will, too.
Karen
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Tdog's mom,
I know exactly how you feel. My son left on Wednesday and I went/am going through the same thing. He called Friday am to say he's arrived in Kuwait and was extremely jet lagged. What rate is your son and is he stopping in Kuwait first?
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