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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.
Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.
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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
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Comment by Tamme on February 13, 2014 at 11:55am
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Congratulations, Curleytop, on the early home from deployment. After almost five years, I still get so frustrated with the up in the air dates. Nothing can ever be planned, but so exciting they are coming back early!
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Comment by TexasDocMom on February 13, 2014 at 12:15am
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Yes you can get excited! it will be fluid, but they will let you know closer to the time when he will actually be arriving. They have your email and/or phone don't they? they send messages detailing the time, etc. They do not make public announcements, it's only for you family members. The FRO should be in touch and remember, if you have questions about the arrival, you can ask the FRO.
Good for you!!
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Comment by Curleytop on February 12, 2014 at 11:31pm
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I have enjoyed reading everyone's comments and catching up. My computer has been down. Technology is great when it works. Well, I know this should be good news but I am just so anxious now. My son is going to return sooner than I thought from his deployment. NLT(no later than) the end of next month. I had to look up NLT. The FRO used it on the eMarine page. Still trying to learn the lingo. The reason I am so anxious is when the return dates where posted, the phrase was 'these dates are fluid'. Oh how I hate that the military tells you something without telling you something.
So can I get excited about my son getting to come home? I don't dare. I have learn not to trust anything I am told. Just about the time I count on something happening, it changes.
It is just so hard to plan. I know that I am not in control. I guess I keep trying to be, maybe that is the lesson I am to learn as a military mom. I am so frustrated. I know I should be happy, I think. I am just scared something will happen and the dates will change.
Has anyone else felt this way about the final countdown weeks?
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I know MLK had a dream, and TDM does too...that we will not, at some point, ever need this group again. And here we go with more deployments!
TNMom, you bet they have his back...those Marines pride themselves on taking care of the Doc, and they are not kidding! My son has been out over 2 years now, and still his FBook page will have notes from "his" Marines, checking on him and sometimes asking if it's okay to call him, they have something on their minds. They have a bond that will never break.
Yes prayers for our troops serving around this world, and the families waiting at home, every day....you are not alone....
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Green side is very different...walking that no man's land between Marine and Sailor and bossing all those big Marines around.
Packages...foxsox.com get those socks! and my son's theory was everything tastes better with salsa on it, so I sent tons of salsa....
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Comment by Pam on February 7, 2014 at 3:02pm
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I have finally figured eMarine out! I guess I had to get knee deep into this whole Marine thing before I understood exactly what was what. Up unti now I have relied on my son to tell me everything. He said if I sent him a care package it would just sit at the base he's been deployed to because he wasn't going to be there but part of the time. Found out through eMarine that was not so. It will be forwarded on to him. What a crazy life this is after he spent two years blue side. He is also learning the green side as he goes along and I know he will be a better, if not grumpier, person for it.
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Comment by Paymaster on February 7, 2014 at 1:54pm
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Some days reading old e-mails and text from mine is the only thing that keeps me going. Mine is deployed to points unknown yet again. He is part of squadron HSC 85. their motto "One in, all in". But I keep reminding my self that he is happy doing the work that he does. Hang in there ladies.! {{Navy Hug}}
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Comment by Much Trouble on February 7, 2014 at 12:49pm
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lol Pam, no need to count...I can assure you that you will keep reading it until you get the next one.
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:) Thanks so much Ladies. Phew - what a relief. And I am printing it now! 11, 12....
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Only 10 times? You are doing very well, Pam!
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