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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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:

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:

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:

RTC Graduation

**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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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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FMF Corpsman moms

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

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

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

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

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 August 6, 2012 at 7:12pm

Mikes mom he is at CP right now. I am in the corpsman moms and dads group also. Thank you for the info though.

Comment by mikes mom on August 6, 2012 at 7:05pm
Medicmom thank you I am a single mom too and have gone through 2 deployments . I was so scared when he deployed to Afg and was the happiest when he was back on American soil. The group that truly helped me the past 3 years has been corpsman moms and dads. You will find a lot of seasoned moms and dads there please ck it out... where is your son now ?
Comment by medic mom on August 6, 2012 at 4:16pm

Welcome txbabydocmom! Glad to see you here.

Comment by medic mom on August 6, 2012 at 4:15pm

Welcome Mikes mom! Glad to see you found your way here. I totally understand the greenside fear of us parents. I can say that I am finding out that it is getting easier the longer he is there. No deployments as of yet for us but it is coming up here all too soon. It will be the first deployment we have to go through. I am sure I can deal with it with all of you gals and guys help. It sucks even more for me since I have to be the strong parent due to the fact that his dad and his dad's family are not very supportive of him with all of this. An fyi his dad and I are not together. I so want to be a mom and break down and cry and rail against it all but I can't. He needs a strong parent for all of this and it is me. I don not mind being the strong parent for him. He knows my fears and does his best to help me out with them. He is always honest about everything with me and that makes it ten times easier to deal with. 

Comment by mikes mom on August 6, 2012 at 4:02pm
Yes my son right now is thinking of staying in and he is going to school as well.. going greenside is not easy for us parents ..
Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on August 6, 2012 at 1:21am

Marsha & I were just chatting, I think she went to bed :)  Yes, he recently married, reenlisted, and will be staying at least for a few more years, really likes where he is now.  Mine just reenlisted too; just arrived recently at Naples, Italy.  Tough lives indeed!  'night all!

Comment by DramaSoul on August 6, 2012 at 1:17am

Thanks, Marcy, for posting the OPSEC rules.  Makes it easier to double check when I am posting. 

mikes mom...Is your son interested in being career Navy? I met the instructor who inspired my son the most at SA.  He was really down-to-earth.

Comment by mikes mom on August 6, 2012 at 12:23am

Hi ! My son is an FMF Corpsman and has been deployed twice and he was greenside for 3 years and is now Blue side and LOVES it : ) ME Too : )

I am proud of what he has done but I love the fact he is now working in a hospital and not in harms way...

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on August 6, 2012 at 12:16am

Just checking - so none of your corpsmen have been through a deployment yet? Also, I just posted OPSEC rules up top :)

Comment by DramaSoul on August 5, 2012 at 10:40pm

Fortunately my son had a choice and he was not interested in the East Coast for a couple of reasons...one being the humidity and the other is that all of the family (and his gf) are on the West Coast. It's a tough life...bein' on the beach in San Diego but I guess someone's got to do it!

 

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