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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 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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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
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Care Packages - lists of items, how to order priority boxes and how to fill out customs forms
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Sailors in Afghanistan with boots on the ground
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Comment by TexasDocMom on October 18, 2016 at 8:46am
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Well, THAT was exciting...I thought I'd lost touch with all of you! and with things ramping up yet again in the Middle East, I guess our group isn't done yet! Hope you are all well!
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Comment by Pam on July 28, 2016 at 11:48am
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Hi all. Hope everyone and their Sailor's are doing well. I just wanted to stop in and say that everything is good in Florida. I can't tell you how wonderful it is to actually see my son every month. We often joke about it now when one of us is headed home... "see you next month!" He is getting married at the end of August so we are looking forward to that. My how life has changed going from green back to blue. So much less stressful for him. God bless those that are still green and that have made the choice to stay that way. We may have a humanitarian mission in our future onboard the Comfort which we'll find out about later in the year.
((((HUGS)))) to all that still fighting the fight.
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I meant to add that I attended the service for Doc Lundy. He was a Central Texas kid. I attended with another Navy mom, whose son took his own life after 9 years in the USN. It was a very very hard day. But the community and the Navy were there in force for Doc Lundy.
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Ladies, I am still here! I was so hoping that we could move this group on...but it seems we will not be combat free probably in our lifetimes so here we stay.
Glad to hear the good news of your sailors ....and weddings and grandchildren!
Memorial Day is such an emotional day for us all, I can't imagine the pain the families of these young 1/6 Marines and Corpsmen are going through today.
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Comment by JerseySusan on May 29, 2016 at 9:17am
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http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/20160525/NEWS/160529475
Jonathan's Captain.....
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It's been a l-o-n-g- time since I've checked into this site. I know that's a good thing for me. Our youngest son, AF, has been in England for a few months now with his new bride. They found a beautiful small cottage to rent in a small village to "experience" the whole European life. They even walk to the "Tavern"!! Even though he has been very busy with his job and "technically not deployed, he has had several training exercises at very different locations. I guess you could say, they are on an extended honeymoon. He took her to a beautiful Bed & Breakfast for a long weekend & she has already met him for a weekend at one of the countries that use to be Yugoslavia. Their life there has already been very rewarding for the both of them. Of course now they have a newly rambunctious giant schnauzer, so I'm sure the traveling for her may dwindle down a little. Plus, she just found a PT job that she was anxious & happy to get. Not in her field, that's been a little bit of a rough road getting all of her credentials together for her overseas career, but she's still working on it. She had just graduated with her BS in Radiological Science & (ARRT), Radiography & Radiation Therapy just before they left.
Our oldest son, Navy, has had land duty in SC & just rec'd his BA at the Citadel last month. His wife is also working on her MB in Education as well, so their household has been very busy with that & their 20 month son.He is planning on leaving the Navy since he has now started a family. Sub life is very demanding when sea duty roles around, and having this latest land duty, has put his family life in perspective. He has a 1 1/2 years left. It's been a very rough decision on his part, because he really does love the sub life, but he also doesn't want to miss out on watching his family grow up though life. I know with all of his background as a nuclear engineer tech & now his BA degree, he should have a smooth transition into the civilian work world.
I hope this all finds everyone in good health. Love & Safety to All.
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Ladies - the sea bags have exploded all over my house and I couldn't be happier! On to the next chapter for our Doc. JAX NAS here we come!
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Sharing a song about "Doc"
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JerseySusan - Congratulations to your son on his engagement! And for his tour in Europe. My son did a two year tour in Italy and loved every minute.
IDCmom - I have giggled about that one for a minute or two.. I can only imagine THAT conversation. LOL
For those of you that did not see the picture I posted last week and only left up for a short time, it was of my son swearing in for another three years of Navy life. He has nearly 6 years in now. He has gone from blue to green and now back to blue. He deployed to a non-combat zone but it was still very hard for me not to have contact with him for weeks at a time. I totally understand that little light when they're on FB!! I still, after nearly six years, have a hard time with him being so far but am so grateful he will finally be just a short drive away from home. I have three children but he is my oldest and I would consider us still close. Although he has been on the beautiful island of Hawaii for the last three years, the training missions have kept him off island for weeks and months at a time. I guess each command has it's own challenges and I am hoping Florida will be a good one for him and his fiancé. I only spent one year as an Army wife but remember how difficult it was being newlyweds in the military. It is not a life for everyone but that doesn't mean it won't work for some. Obviously there are a ton of married military men and women that have made it work. And I applaud all of them! Each member of our military needs all the love and support they can get from their support system (wives, husbands, moms, dads, etc.). Those big girl panties can be stretched to their limit at times :) and sometimes ya just want to go commando but your sons and daughters know that you love them. God Bless you all during this holiday season!
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Comment by MikeysMom2 on December 5, 2015 at 3:55pm
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Welcome IDCMOM... yes, my son is out as well.... I do know the country but that is all. I have not heard from him in some time.... but did see he again changed his name on facebook.... a couple of weeks ago. No news is good news so I am sure he will message me as soon as he can. Merry Merry and Happy Happy to all this season....
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