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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.
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- Graduation Info
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- PNG – 2.3 MB
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- 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.
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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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Care Packages - lists of items, how to order priority boxes and how to fill out customs forms
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Comment by TexasDocMom on May 10, 2015 at 10:02am
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Happy Mother's Day! If your child warrior is far away, please know he/she is thinking about you....and some CO is trying to get them all to a phone to call! But until then, Happy Mother's Day from your mother friends.....be nice to yourself today!
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Happy Mother's Day! If your child warrior is far away, please know he/she is thinking about you....and some CO is trying to get them all to a phone to call! But until then, Happy Mother's Day from your mother friends.....be nice to yourself today!
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My heart to all of you....and I am hoping that those moms new to deployment hell know about this group. I remember those days, even tho my son is out and last deployed in 08...you just can't forget. As I see now, those young vets who serve and have served together are the strength they run on while deployed. My son is still very close to his Marines and fellow corpsmen....he's going to the wedding of a young man who came to visit with us after he was injured in Afghanistan when my son was stationed in San Antonio. They both came to Austin, spent 3 days together, a lot of that time at Barton Springs (68degree water all the time!) and in sitting on my son's bed...talking. My son's CO in San Antonio told him to come and spend that time with that Marine, making sure he was okay. So, now he's getting married! And probably a half dozen Marines from all over the country are coming to Texas for the wedding. Our problem is that my granddaughter graduates 10 am on the morning following the wedding about 4 hours away. There is no way I want my son driving after a night of party with his buddies! So I told him to send a big check...and make time to get with her later. These guys are so close. My son said if he isn't on social media or their game thing for a couple of days, he gets phone calls from them...'are you okay" type calls. They watch over each other like a hawk. And they do while they are deployed as well. We will never rest comfortably while our kids are in danger, but please remember that they are each well loved by their peers and they watch over each other. They are not alone, and neither are you.
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Comment by Tamme on April 16, 2015 at 2:55pm
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Just a deck of cards.....please watch to the end. It's short. Sound on
This is really neat! I have no idea how he does it....
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Susan, you are not alone. I have you and your sailors in my thoughts and prayers all the time. Reach out when you need us. So glad you were able to talk to your youngest. It makes such a world of difference just to hear their voice. Congrats to your oldest for doing so well at the Citadel. Hope you get to Charleston soon and we can meet.
One of our sons got out after five in July and is going to college in CT. His plans are to finish school, go to OCS and hopefully be a helicopter Corpsman which is what he always wanted to do. The Navy wouldn't let him go back to the blue side after this two years with the Marines in order to go to C school for that so he got out. Our other son is still on the Stennis which has been doing two-month deployments every other month this year to get the ship ready for deployment.
TNM, glad to hear you are doing better.
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Susan, we know others are deployed....but maybe don't know to find us here...possibly not as many active Navy personnel deployed at this moment...but you are not alone, every single one of us have that memory, and as I have discovered, it just doesn't leave you. Any time you need to reach out, please do...you know how to contact me, I will always listen!
I think my son decided to leave at 7 years because he knew if he re-upped he'd be in for the 20...and he fell in love. Thankful! Wish it had worked out for them but I'll always love that young woman for helping him move away from the military. If he had stayed in, he would have gone back green side because he loved being a Corpsman. He liked being an instructor okay, but even when they offered him all kinds of schools, he'd just tell them he was a field corpsman and he was good with that.
You have every right to be so proud!!! That is an amazing accomplishment!!!
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Comment by JerseySusan on April 15, 2015 at 7:41pm
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Awe TNM....You sure have been through a lot with that surgery. I can only imagine!!! My simple surgery of just my broken ankle last May, just recently started to feel normal again, and I definitely can't even compare that to yours. Here's to hoping you will get well soon.
We finally heard from our youngest just the other day. It was so "Wonderful" just to hear his voice. It's pretty tough this time, I really can't communicate anything over the net, so I do feel pretty much alone, and it looks like I'm the only one on this site right now going through this.
Hah...our oldest said the "same exact" thing at his 5 year mark. This fall he will be in 10yrs. He's now married and has a new baby, and he receives a "lot", no make that a "ton" of pressure from his wife to leave the Navy. Since he has land duty right now, he's taking more classes at the Citadel and was just inducted into the very prestigious Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi for having achieved outstanding success in their academic careers. Only 10% seniors & 7.5% juniors are selected. So of course I'm one proud mama!! ;)
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TNM, glad you're healing....and if it means anything, my son was thinking of making the Navy his career at 5 years as well. That changed...and he didn't re-up when he was at 7 years. You just never know.
Susan, think of you every day...
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Comment by Pam on April 13, 2015 at 8:47pm
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My son hit his 5 year mark today. At times it seems so much longer and other times not so long. He too is making the Navy his career choice.
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Thanks everyone for all your prayers as I know they help tremendously.
I'm hang'in in there. First couple of weeks was tough. Waking up a lot at night with some nightmares. I cringe every time I wake up in the morning going on the computer or putting the TV on & praying the news is just copasetic. Blood pressure went up sky high, but is now back under control. Our daughter is expecting her "4th" grandchild, another "boy"!! That will make Grandson #5 Hah, no granddaughters yet. Funny, both my husband I both came from siblings of mostly girls. Her family keeps us very busy!! Our son has a GF now, a very sweet girl that we all new from his HS years. She's been a huge help with getting packages out to him, although he hasn't t rec'd any yet. :( With the warmer weather approaching here, I'm sure I'll get a little more busier to keep my mind more occupied.
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