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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:
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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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 yelomoon on February 16, 2013 at 11:21pm
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Thank you Texasmom. I saw a post from her the other day. Looks like she found her a military site. I wish the best for her as she and her new hubby are young.
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Comment by TexasDocMom on February 16, 2013 at 12:06am
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Yelo, don't see why it would not, I'm sure they are like us and take all in!
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@ TexasDocmom- will AirForcefor moms work for wife
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Air Force Moms is one I found, but you're right, it's nothing like this !
AF Facebook Group I didn't join this group, so I don't know what it is like...
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Comment by JerseySusan on February 15, 2013 at 11:39am
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TD I have searched & Googled quite a few times. I thought I had finally found something one time and the Website stated its "Under Construction". I just checked again and it still is. I have to tell you, there is no military website that can even compare to this N4M's site. It is remarkable and outstanding with all the different groups to choose from.
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Are there no AF groups, Susan? I know when my son was greenside with the Marines, I found several Marine parents support groups....altho in the long run, I found this one more helpful to me than the others. But when he was deployed, it was helpful to stay on top of activity or get to see a few photos.
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Thanks TD.....Our oldest son deployed on a sub with the Navy, we receive up-dates all the time through the Ombudsman group, BUT I have to tell you, we have been totally in the dark with our youngest in the AF over there unless we hear from him personally on an occasion now & then. He never gave us any info for a contact person or group. But the next time he deploys somewhere (and there will be a next time b/c he has re-enlisted), I will be sure to try and find out if there is such a group type as Family Support or Family Readiness. I have been so "Extremely" Thankful for this site!!! So many of you Ladies have always been there for us all, and you always put "everything" into perspective. I honestly can't begin to Thank you enough. Even when our son does arrive home, I will keep you up-dated on how he is doing. TexasDoc....You are truly an Angel.
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Comment by Joanie Tyler's Mom(133 Bees) on February 15, 2013 at 10:10am
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It's a phone number you can call 24/7 and it gives updated homecoming information and other pertinent info on the battalion...It gives all the info you need to be there to greet your sailor....If there is a change in dates/times/meeting place it will have that info also....The phone number came to me in an email from the Ombudsman group for our battalion and it changes with each deployment...I don't know if other military branches use it or not.
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By the way... I am so damn excited and happy for all of you welcoming home your sons and daughters!! Especially this group of them, because hopefully, we will not have a lot of Marine units headed to Afghanistan, and so fewer Corpsman moms here...but we're sticking with this group until the last soldier, Marine, Sailor or Airman is OUT OF THE SAND!! whichever sand based hell hole we have military in...
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Check with your Family Readiness Officer (or someone with a similar title). Find them on the web site for your unit...your son/daughter should have your email/phone contact info on the list for the person assigned to keep families updated. If you're not sure, check with another parent whose kid is in the same unit as yours and find out the info. We started getting phone calls about 10 days out, with the times/dates, etc...they changed up a little as time got closer, but generally we knew when he would be boots down USA. I had his phone turned on when I knew he was out of the sand for sure, so it was on when he hit the USA so he could call his mother!!!
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