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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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You need to be a member of Anyone with Sailors/Soldiers/Marines in War Zones and Combat Areas to add comments!

Comment by TexasDocMom on February 7, 2013 at 1:00pm: You're welcome to the group that no one wants to join, slapout! please take a look around, check out the discussions and links and previous posts, and remember, you are not alone. In more ways than one, we've had several moms/dads over the last few years with multiple kids in multiple branches of the military, many who deployed at the same time. Not all of them are posting right now but I can whistle and they'll come running...so if there is anything you need, let me know....Please let other Army moms know about this group, we hold no prejudices towards any branch, a kid deployed is a kid deployed....and we all know the fear and we all try to support each other. A military mom is a military mom....you are not alone.

Comment by Tamme on February 7, 2013 at 1:00pm: Welcome, slapout52. I hae two on deployment right now - one in the Middle East and one in Afghanistan. Both Navy. You will love all the support this site offers.

Comment by slapout52 on February 7, 2013 at 12:39pm: Please allow me to add your group to "My groups." I am an Army/Navy mom. My Sailor deploys soon for another several months in the Gulf . . . and my Soldier, who just completed JRTC with his Battalion, will head for the Sandbox some 4 weeks after my Sailor's ship deploys. So I will have 2 deployed. It will be my Soldier's first deployment, my Sailor's 2nd. All support is appreciated.

Comment by yelomoon on February 4, 2013 at 8:48pm: Thank you Susan, That is very kind of you!

Comment by Tamme on February 4, 2013 at 12:39pm: Yelomoon, that is a great idea! I do remember that post on MASH too.

Comment by yelomoon on February 1, 2013 at 11:45pm: Tamme,

A lil something my hubby made, We were watching an ole episode of MASH one evening and it brought tears to both our eyes.

It was an ole grand finale of the show and they made a special comment of the ole post they had in the ground and it gave directions to areas, states,countries they

felt special too. Well, in honor of our personal family and seabee, my husband made one and it was my job to mapquest all destinations. It really looks good even if it made a scrap wood.

Comment by Tamme on February 1, 2013 at 10:46am: Yelomoon and TexasDocMom, thanks for the reply. It is so hard to figure out the map of Afghanistan. My seasoned Moms always tell me not to read news articles but I just can't help myself. What a wonderful story about the soldier helping his Mom during the storm. Prayers for a peaceful weekend for everyone.

Comment by TexasDocMom on February 1, 2013 at 2:03am: Remember, if anything...ANYTHING has happened to your deployed kid...you will know pretty close to immediately. You will be notified, the military will be working with you or the spouse to get you as much info as possible as soon as possible. No news is good news. Do not start building up fears over current events that you cannot change....and you do not know where your kid is...you might think you know, but really, if he/she is with the Marines out of the wire someplace, we don't know squat. My son when he got home made me realize I didn't have a clue as to where he really was in Iraq.

I know how easy it is to build that fear, but you have to keep on a level keel as much as possible. If you find yourself getting really stressed, talk to your doctor about something to help you sleep or whatever he thinks might help you. You have to take care of you, so when that phone rings, that kid hears his mom being mom on the other end.

Did you guys hear about the woman who was in that Firestorm caused by super Storm Sandy...she was on the phone with her son who was in Afghanistan and he talked her to safety. Told her to get wet blankets, wrap them around herself and get out of that house....and she did. Geez, I love our kids!!

Comment by yelomoon on January 31, 2013 at 8:05pm: Tamme, I think it is a plane ride from Helmand to Kandahar. Mine was flown in a C-130. Other than that, I have no idea. Glad you got an email though.