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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
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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:
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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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A place to talk and share stories and worries about our kids, boyfriends, and others that are FMF corpsman.
Location: worldwide
Members: 93
Latest Activity: Jul 23, 2022
Discussion Forum
Field Medical Training Battalion (FMTB)
Started by KaylaRae. Last reply by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom Sep 10, 2016. 4 Replies 2 Likes
Wonderful information by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom…Continue
29 palms base in Cali help?
Started by Tiffany110491. Last reply by Tiffany110491 Mar 22, 2015. 4 Replies 0 Likes
ne I am new to all of this and would like some help please :) so my husband is currently in A school in San antonio and recieved preorders for FMF in 29 palms Cali and I am hoping those orders change…Continue
What it takes to earn the FMF qualification
Started by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom. Last reply by KathyProudCorpsmanmom Mar 9, 2015. 5 Replies 10 Likes
Fleet Marine Force (FMF) is an earned qualification. Only those sailors who are attached to forward-deployable Marine units are eligible to earn the FMF pin. The rigorous process takes months and…Continue
OPSEC Rules
Started by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom. Last reply by DramaSoul Aug 6, 2012. 1 Reply 3 Likes
Here are the Operational Security rules - and the easy Dr. Seuss version to help remember! :) It's always good to review the OPSEC guidelines. Homecomings have been postponed and Navy Facebook…Continue
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Comment by medic mom on December 1, 2012 at 2:57pm
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I am so right there with you. My son deploys sometime early next year with his unit. It is scary knowing that our kids are gonna on the ground and in harms way but it is what they picked to do and hopefully like my son they are loving it. This is gonna be our first deployment and I am terrified but proud and happy at the same time. Glad to know that you have been through this deployment thing. Gonna be great to be able to share with you when he leaves. I just wish that I knew when and where they will be going but it is one of those things that I have learned to be patient with. The not knowing thing is killing me but I do know that he will be safe and well protected. I will know soon enough. Then the terror can set it. LOL
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I so totally understand about the trying to explain what they do in the Navy. I always just say he is a corpsman attached with a Marine unit. Then I say that he is kinda like a doc. It is too funny explaining to people what they do. I have had to explain it to an AirNational Guardsman who didn't know what corpsman meant. That was too funny. I had to end up keeping the laughter back til I was done explaining it to him. It is a tough thing to explain to other people. Heck I have even had to explain it to other Navy moms. Some don't understand that the Navy plays nice with all the rest of the branches.
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Glad you are here TennNavyMom! It is hard to connect with other Navy moms when your son is a greenside corpsman attached to a Marine unit. It can feel like no one really understands it. We will all try to do our best to help you out.
My son has also been in for a year and a half. He is at Camp Pendelton. He loves being with his Marines.
Welcome to the group.
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Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on November 26, 2012 at 1:26pm
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Kathy, Happy Birthday & blessings to your adorable grandson!
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I love it Kathy! Great photo. Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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Comment by DramaSoul on November 4, 2012 at 11:27pm
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Marcy....yeah...pushups for mail or just about anything else sounds familiar. Shades of RTC only more so since it's the MARINES!!
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Thanks, Marcy! Those look good....even the dress socks. :-)
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Another source for socks - www.covertthreads.com
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Didn't have a problem at Lejeune in 2010, fortunately; he needed to receive his car registration renewal while he was there. They're on the go especially in the second half, and have access to the Marine Exchange and town, so they don't need much - plus they're with MARINES - corpsmen had to do pushups for mail, and more pushups for a package :)
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I agree with medic mom....do not mail anything to CP if you want your Corpsman to get it. I know I have mentioned my story before but I sent him 4 prs of Fox River Mills socks. They got there very quickly, before he even started FMTB training and he didn't get them until the last two weeks of his training because the PO who was supposed to pick them up didn't get them, in spite of my son having the tracking number. Not exactly sure why.
As to the shuttle, I believe my son took a shuttle to the base. That would be the only way he could've gotten there.
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