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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:
Events
**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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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 ktssong on May 29, 2013 at 1:04am
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June 13 FRG says we should know where their deployment will be. Still feels like we just got them back from the sandbox. It makes my head spin how fast time flies. I'm trying so hard to make the most of the time stateside. I call every weekend and talk and send comments to pictures they have on facebook. I look forward to seeing him in July but also dread it because I know I won't see him again for another 8 months. Here we go again. Did anyone else tear up on Memorial Day? I took my grandkids to see the local parade and shook hands with a World War II vet. When I told him I loved his tie and thanked him for serving, he had tears down his cheek and told me a few stories and said it was the greatest honor he had in his life was to serve. I took the grandkids over to the monuments in town and explained the wars. I hope that I'm making an impact on their lives by sharing with them. It was their first Memorial Day Parade. Ended the day with a call to my son. He spent the day alone because he had liberty and his wife had to work on the holiday. What I love about my son is whether he was in the sandbox, out on FEX with alligators, snakes and a sinus infection, or home alone on a holiday with no wife or family, he never ever complains.
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Just got back from staying with my daughter in law while my son and his battalion went to FEX to prepare for deployment again. The first weekend there went to the GP Music Festival with her and several other Navy wives. We had a good time. Even though I didn't get time this time with him I went specifically to encourage her in her new life with him that our family was supporting both of them in their journey. I teared up in the car as I left to come back home but I told myself I went for a good reason....when I told my son I would support him when he signed into the Navy, I meant to also help his wife so she didn't feel alone. All went well and I'm going back for a week in July to spend with him. While he was at FEX I did his chores for her. I took out the trash, cooked dinners and froze some for the both of them to enjoy after I left.
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Comment by JerseySusan on May 23, 2013 at 8:48pm
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Awe.... That's adorable Kathy
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Comment by TexasDocMom on May 23, 2013 at 8:36pm
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Loved that! you don't have to enter anything, yelomoon, just go...today.
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Comment by yelomoon on May 23, 2013 at 8:29pm
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why do I want to check out google.com? and what do I enter when I get there? :)
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While I was watching this yesterday while it was happening and then the following hours...I realized that probably we here on this board know the fear that those parents and families were feeling (and some still are) while they were trying to get to their children in those schools. The fear of the unknown, the fear of not being in a position to protect your child, the fears of injury and worse to a child you love....just plain fear. My heart hurt for them all.
If you have family and loved ones in that area, please know our hearts and prayers are with you. Our family in that area are, at this moment, safe.
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Awww, Happy Mothers Day Kathy!! How sweet is that!!
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Comment by pschumacher on May 10, 2013 at 11:15pm
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TexasDocMom... thank you for the input .. that too, I figured they would be busy and wouldnt really have much time to spend w/family. You are a great source of information. I do appreciate your time in working w/people on this site. Have a great Mother's Day.
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pschumacher....I did not go to see them off, my son said they were busy, and the single guys kind of pick up the load for those guys there with wives and children stationed nearby....they have a lot to do to get ready. I don't know how much time you'd get with your daughter.
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Hello everyone, havent been on here in awhile, when the marines are deployed, I see where family members can go down to see them off. Not sure what this all entails? We live several states away and would have to fly in, due to cost of flights now days and days missed from work. Not sure if we will get to spend much time with her b4 shes leave ? As well has she will be home a couple of weeks prior to leaving. I know when she comes back we will definetly go to welcome her back... Any thoughts, suggestions.
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