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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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Choose your Username. For the privacy and safety of you and/or your sailor, NO LAST NAMES ARE ALLOWED, even if your last name differs from that of your sailor (please make sure your URL address does not include your last name either). Also, please do not include your email address in your user name. Go to "Settings" above to set your Username. While there, complete your Profile so you can post and share photos and videos of your Sailor and share stories with other moms!

Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!

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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

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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Anyone with Sailors/Soldiers/Marines in War Zones and Combat Areas

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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.

Members: 116
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:

National Resource Directory

The National Resource Directory (NRD) is a website which connects wounded warriors, service members, Veterans, and their families with those who support them.

It provides access to services and resources at the national, state and local levels to support recovery, rehabilitation and community reintegration.

Real Warriors The Real Warriors Campaign is an initiative launched by the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) to promote the processes of building resilience, facilitating recovery and supporting reintegration of returning service members, veterans and their families.

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

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.

Military Pathways Facebook

To help those who may be struggling, the DoD teamed up with the nonprofit organization Screening for Mental Health to launch Military Pathways (TM), also known as the Mental Health Self-Assessment Program (MHSAP). The program is available online and at special events held at installations worldwide. Check us out at militarymentalhealth.com. It provides free, anonymous mental health and alcohol self-assessments for family members and service personnel in all branches including the National Guard and Reserve.

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.

Military Slang Appendix

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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To all who drop by! WELCOME! please post below so we can get to know you. If you send a message around to 'all members' , we CANNOT respond. So, please introduce yourself below, and remember to not share dates or specfic movements by any military unit on the board! Thank you!! and again WELCOME!!

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Comment by MikeysMom2 on November 3, 2015 at 12:37pm: Hi Everyone.... I have been gone for some time as well.... Son has deployed, again.... please keep he and his Team in your thoughts and prayers!

Comment by Pam on October 14, 2015 at 5:05pm: Welcome back curleytop. Glad to hear your son will be home soon! And congratulations on the NAM! We spent the first weekend of October in Jacksonville, FL, where our son will be headed next year! Loved the beach there and so bike friendly.

Comment by Curleytop on October 10, 2015 at 9:22pm: I have been silent for quiet a while. So much happening on the home front. Moved. That should say enough! My corpsman called the other day. Should be Boots Down USA in a few weeks. He also called with good news. He had just received his NAM award. Had to look it up to know what it was. Still learning and growing in the military life. Thankful for every military mom, past, present and future

Comment by Curleytop on October 10, 2015 at 9:22pm: I have been silent for quiet a while. So much happening on the home front. Moved. That should say enough! My corpsman called the other day. Should be Boots Down USA in a few weeks. He also called with good news. He had just received his NAM award. Had to look it up to know what it was. Still learning and growing in the military life. Thankful for every military mom, past, present and future

Comment by Pam on September 20, 2015 at 10:44pm: Hugs to you and your son JerseySusan. It is indeed a heavy load these young servicemen and women bear. When our children are grown it's almost impossible to be there for everything and the guilt is enough to consume you sometimes. I can't wait for my son to come home and I know he can't wait to be close to home. He has missed out on so much "family" stuff and his sense of "normal" is going to take some time to fix. I can only be there when he reaches out for me as I am sure your son knows he can reach out to you when he needs to. Prayers to all of you for an easy transition back home.

Comment by TexasDocMom on September 19, 2015 at 11:09am: When we have to face the facts that our children have such heavy loads and responsibility, it's tough on parents. We still feel all the joys and pains of our children, but we don't know the depth of serving in combat with someone and losing that person in a senseless violent act. I am so sorry to hear of your pain and sad heart, Susan. And thankful you came here to share it, so we can be here even if we don't have quite the right words to help. So very thankful for you that Jonathan will be walking through your door and so very heartbroken for two new Gold Star moms who will not get that joy. I think we all have some sort of survivors guilt, and we try to push it away, but when I am so grateful my son came home still knowing some one else's did not, it is kind of overwhelming. I tell the young vets I see "thank you" ...and it's not just for their service , it's "thank you for coming home". Much love.

Comment by JerseySusan on September 19, 2015 at 9:27am: http://www.afsoc.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/136/Article/61782...

It's been so "bitter sweet" for our son finally coming home, but having to hear him go through laying to rest 2 hero comrades. We haven't seen him yet b/c of our daughter just having a baby (her 4th). We were so Blessed his girlfriend could be by his side from day #1. This is the "1st" time we haven't been able to be there for his homecoming which has really affected me. I feel like "I'm" going through the post-partum blues along with my daughter. We also had to miss our oldest sons baby's "1st" B'day party in SC. Jonathan & his GF are both finally coming up to visit with us tomorrow after both of the funerals having finally come to the end as of yesterday.