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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 Tamme on January 31, 2013 at 11:00am
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How close is Kandahar to Helms Province (spelling?). My Corpsman is stationed with a Marine Team training the police in Afghistan and living with the police. Thank God I had an e-mail from him this morning. Now I know what he meant by saying they'd been busy this week. Prayers flowing for all.
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Comment by JerseySusan on January 30, 2013 at 9:02pm
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Yelomoon, are you referencing what happened 3 days ago or something new today?
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Comment by yelomoon on January 30, 2013 at 8:37pm
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sorry to hear what went on in kandhar(?) my spelling not so good. I work with a lady and her son could of been one of them. I pray to God not. :(
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Our son actually got very attached to a Military Dog over there. But something happened to that dog. Not sure what, he said he got sick and had to go back. But I know he really misses that dog. That will be one of the pics I will show someday.
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Comment by TexasDocMom on January 30, 2013 at 3:32pm
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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.
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Hey, JS! glad to hear homecoming is coming up...and it's ever so slowly, isn't it? "under the sea"...that gives me claustrophobia just thinking about it.
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Hi Ladies, I haven't been on in a while. I dropped my lap top and had a major hard drive crash! But I'm back up and running now with a new one! ;) Pretty soon, not just yet, I will share some pics & let you know when the youngest gets home, still a little ways off, but getting closer. We don't hear to much from him, but when we do, it makes all of our days. Our oldest under the sea right now. Waiting until he pulls into Port. I cant wait until our son tells us what he liked the most from his packages & of course what he didn't like!!
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Comment by ktssong on January 20, 2013 at 12:48am
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Just checking in. My son's been boots down in US since Sept. and they are training for next deployment. He was home for Christmas and it was the best holiday for a long time in our family. All of us together. He was talking to me about all the chapstick we sent over when he was there. I wondered if I sent way too much and he said no. He said have you ever seen chapstick turn to liquid mom. He said he would open a stick up to use it and it would be like water. It was so hot. So they use it constantly. He liked the Chapstick made by Chapstick in their new Apple flavor. I would send all kinds.
So he is home and having some sleep issues. I can't complain. It could be worse so I'm just praying everything will improve before they leave again. Also I did send him sox from the foxsox.com and he loved them so that is a good recommendation. I really liked that they do cruise books to buy after deployment so you can keep for them to look back on. I'm going to try to put together a scrapbook just of all the photos from facebook I found of him and those he took. I want him to never forget, because I know I won't, our journey through this deployment. I plan to include a page with Navyformoms on it. This group was my survival kit. And I reread the other day a note he wrote me telling me how much the encouragement helped him that I wrote him in Facebook messages. I was able to do positive notes to him because of the positive encouragement here. For all new moms....this is the place to hang out. Best support ever.
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Comment by DsMoma on January 16, 2013 at 5:04pm
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Thank you ladies, great ideas
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Comment by Paymaster on January 16, 2013 at 2:13pm
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DsMoma....If you are able to sew, you can make him a pillowcase with your grandson help. They guys love stuff that their children have made.
When my son was in the sandobox we did one with the kids hand prints on it. I traced the handprints then embordiered over what I traced, then I put there name under each hand print.
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