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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:
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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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.
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:
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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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!!
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
Started by Ruth, Gun's Mom. Last reply by TexasDocMom Sep 18, 2010. 18 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by Much Trouble on October 9, 2013 at 7:25pm
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Wonderful, Susan...I'm so happy for you! Please keep coming back...It is just as scary for the new moms as it was for us, and a few words from you can really reassure someone.
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Comment by TexasDocMom on September 24, 2013 at 5:07pm
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Pam, are you part of our "kids in Iraq/Afghanistan group". If not, please do join us, if you have a child in a war zone, it is the group to go to for support. Link here to the group
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Comment by ktssong on September 19, 2013 at 10:15pm
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That would be great. I thought the same thing. If there wasn't a site like ours that she can come here. This site was the best thing that my son did for me when he signed up taking me to a family meeting with the recruiter and that recruiter told me about it. It was meant to be.
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Ktssong...unfortunately, I have not seen a site specifically for Army moms like this one. I've seen mail lists for Marine moms, but not Army. If her son is deploying, she is welcome to join us here in this group, just have her join N4M and then come here. You know we are all in the same boat when it comes to fear for our kids in dangerous situations. I'll check with one of my Army mom friends to see if she knows of anything.
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Hi TexasDocMom. I haven't been on here too much lately as I've been on a group about another place my son is deployed to right now trying to learn about that place. Anyway, of all the groups I am in, I've found you to be the most knowledgeable about everything. You are so awesome. I have a question to ask. I have a friend at church who has a son that just enlisted in the Army. She loves that I have had so much help on NavyforMoms and so we were wondering for her do you know if there is something like this for Army Moms. I googled it and I haven't found a website as wonderful as this one to direct her too. And just like all moms have a variety of different types of sons that get info for them and some that do not. So she hasn't had any information about this kind of site for her. So I told her I'd ask. Which meant, I'll run to my Navy Moms and ask TexasDocMom. Ha.
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And photos of babies, we LOVE photos of our young vets and babies!!
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Comment by Curleytop on September 16, 2013 at 9:43pm
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Susan,
You keep us posted about your grandchild and the wedding. We like good celebrations.
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My nephew had a horrific accident when he was 16, killed his best friend on impact and my nephew suffered a severe closed head injury. My son was about 10 at the time, and my nephew's little brother was about a year younger. Those two boys grew up in rehabs and then 9/11 hit. My son enlisted in the Navy (they had hoped to do a buddy plan, but my SIL just could not let go at the time, so he waited) and now my "almost nephew" is in the Army and just left for his second deployment. A full year. He has a wife and two gorgeous daughters. So, I'm right back in the lap of deployment, as if being here with all of you didn't keep me there anyway. I wish I could get my SIL (actually ex SIL) to come here, but maybe she comes reads, I don't know. But I know I'm not alone, so many other aunts and uncles are out there praying every day for nieces and nephews...
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Thanks TDM,
I like the positive days so much better. It is nice to have a little hope restored.
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And that's why we're here, Curleytop...glad to hear you sound so positive. You'll have down days, too, and we'll still be here! And next year, God forbid we are still in a warzone, you will be one of the experienced moms smoothing the way for a new mom of a deployed kid...
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