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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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Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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Navy.com Para Familias
Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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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 Curleytop on August 13, 2013 at 11:33pm
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Hello everyone,
I do not post often but so enjoy reading everyone else's comments. I would like to share about being a BC mom for the first time. It was just last summer. My fears were very real because I knew the 'boy', 'son' I had taken care of all those years was never coming back to me. It is all about perception. I grieved over losing him.
My husband is now realizing that his 'son' will never return to him. Our corpsman will deploy in September to Afghanistan. Each of us reach that REAL fear at different times. When we are called on the home front, to stand firm, face our fears it is difficult. Inside I am trembling but what I want to show my corpsman is a smile, laugh, and a happy time.
I know that my son chose to serve and I am proud of him. I also know it was selfishness on my part to want keep my 'boy' the way he was. Our dreams for our children do not necessarily match their dreams. I am learning my children have far better dreams than I could ever hope for them.
My corpsman will be coming home soon on his pre-deployment leave. Any thoughts or suggestions to keep from crying while he is at home.
Where do I go to get general news of deployments? How do you know when boots are down? Where do you go to get mail cut off notices?
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Comment by JerseySusan on August 13, 2013 at 10:10pm
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WAHOO Kathy....I know that's a good feeling!!!
Tamme, can't believe just how close we were to meeting up with you. If you kow Dr. Mark & Judith Green of Charleston, that's the family our son married into. I know they are very active in their community.
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Comment by Tamme on August 13, 2013 at 1:18pm
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JerseySusan, I sure wish I had known you were coming here. I work one block from Tristan. Very nice place. The Marriott is wonderful as well.
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Awe Tamme...We have a lot in common. Our oldest son's wife grew up in Charleston AND they just celebrated their wedding in Charleston July 13,2013. We had the rehearsal dinner at the Tristan & they had their reception at the Marriott. They met in Charleston when our son worked at Goose Creek for 3 years. Talk about "Just" making it home for the wedding. His sub was deployed in Dec., had an extension of 10 more days added on & pulled in the week before the wedding!! Good Luck, I hope your son & his wife WIN!!!
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Please go to the below link and vote for my son and his wife. They have set their wedding date for June 15, 2014 following his deployment. They are in the top five to win a photography and flower package. Thanks!
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Susan, I am so excited for you and glad to hear your son is back in the U.S. November can't come fast enough for us.
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Comment by Much Trouble on August 12, 2013 at 8:06am
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Susan and Jersey Susan...If you run into any moms on other sites that should be here, please tell them about this group! It may be slow now, but we are here for anyone who needs it.
TDM...I love that new name but it is rather cumbersome...How about something along the lines of OMG! The Danger Zone! That is what I felt when I first heard the news. lol (I have a horrible feeling that the way the world is, there will always be one.)
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Comment by TexasDocMom on August 11, 2013 at 11:38pm
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Seriously, open to suggestions for a name that makes sure every mom or dad whose son or daughter, no matter what service...Navy, Marine, Army, Air Force, Embassy employee...knows that they can come here for support and understanding without having to share too much about their son/daughter's job....something that encompasses all parents who live with "that" fear.
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Oh TD...I Love that new name for this site!!!! Honestly, I don't cant ever imagine leaving this support site. It has truly been and still is my saving grace. ((( : )))
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MT....I agree completely with your comment about real fear...and I have little patience with some of the folks who still hover about their kids like they are 10 years old. Hence, I'll probably limit my participation on this board to this group and one other, the Transitions Group. I think many of us mature right with our kids through this Navy change of life!
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