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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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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Navy Speak
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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
Started by Ruth, Gun's Mom. Last reply by TexasDocMom Sep 18, 2010. 18 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by Pam on July 2, 2015 at 9:14am
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Ladies, we are going back to blue! After three months of picking, my son finally got Jacksonville, FL. NOT Jacksonville, NC - haha. I am extremely thrilled with this choice because for the first time in nearly six years, my son will be back in the same time zone. And working in the hospital, doing the job that he loves. If there is anything I can say, it would be for you to know that I will keep your children that remain greenside in my thoughts and prayers and to please let them know that there is a totally different side to the Navy. I will forever be indebted to all of you for your guidance and wise words of comfort for me during my son's deployment last year and for his stint on the greenside. He still has a little time left in Hawaii with his new Marine unit, so I'll continue to offer any words of advice that I can and I will be checking in on you and your Sailors to see how you/they are doing.
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Love it TDM and thank you for sharing.. I am so proud of my son and although he will eventually go back to the blue side, he is still my hero! And ugh.... FMTB and FMF are so darn different! Haha Should find out by the first of July where his next (I almost typed our next - goes to show you that when your child joins, you join) duty station will end up being. Can't wait!
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Comment by TexasDocMom on June 25, 2015 at 9:23am
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Just wanted to share this here, to remind us all what heroes our FMF corpsmen are....as if we didn't know. Also wanted to share here so I don't have to explain, yet again, how FMTB training and FMF qualification earned in a battle zone are two different things!!
Be proud, Doc Moms....
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Happy Birthday Comment from Navy Medicine
Happy Birthday, Corpsmen all over the world...past and present, especially those whose moms are in this group.....proud of the service of you all. US Navy Corpsmen are the most highly decorated branch of the military....and there is a reason. Hug a Doc today, if you can! Even if it's not your Doc!!
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Comment by JerseySusan on June 17, 2015 at 10:58am
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Nicksmom, sorry to hear the "again" has rolled around. TNM, I couldn't have expressed the feelings many of us have better than you!! It's always good to be reminded that we are not alone. I try not to mention how frustrated /:( I really feel, hearing there is never a stable solid plan set in place over there. It just makes your mind go in many different directions wondering what is it going to take for everyone to come together to have the utmost best protection for the ones that are over there. Hopefully, it's just something we are not privy too, and that's what I tell myself over and over again. Pam, keep us up-dated on your son's new orders and lets hope he gets what he wants!
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It's a crazy life TennNavyMom. But, you are right, all you can do is pull up the big girl panties and carry on.
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Pam, here's hoping that he gets that blue side order! Or out! My son was greenside for the first 5 years, then an instructor at Camp Bullis in San Antonio for 18 months or so. So he never really had a blue side job. He had to put on his dress Navy uniform to report to duty in SA and other than maybe a pinning ceremony that was probably the only time he wore it. And yes, those Marines are life long, he and his Marine vet buds are tight as ever!
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I'll echo TexasDocMom's words "welcome back" to the group no one wants to be a part of nicksmom. Hope your son is doing well. My corpsman son is now having issues with new orders. My son has picked twice and has been passed up both times. One more shot at it before they "assign" him somewhere new or he gets out. His plan is to go back to blue side and this makes me one happy momma. I know most of your Sailors have only served on the greenside, but my son served blue for two years before going green. He has made some wonderful, lifelong friends of many of his marine's, but he likes it a little more "quiet." If there is such a thing!
Hope everyone is doing well!
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Comment by MikeysMom2 on June 10, 2015 at 7:01am
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Glad to be back around..... just got busy..... it happens. Hope everyone is doing well.... had to catch up on about 10 pages since my last visit.
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nicksmom..."welcome back" to this group isn't really what I want to say...hate to see any mom come back here with a deploying kid! But we're here! you are not alone!
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