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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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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

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**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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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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FMF Corpsman moms

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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

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Comment by medic mom on March 21, 2013 at 4:36pm: Welcome Cruises72. My son is currently on his last board to gain his FMF pin. It is a very long process but well worth it in the end. He has been working on getting it for a year now. Just has to study hard and get one last, what they call, "murder" board and then schedule his last real board and then pass that real board in order to get his pin. He is currently deployed with his Marine unit and they have been great at helping him try to obtain this. Good luck to your corpsman.

Paula sorry to hear that your son didn't get to go greenside. Maybe later. Pharmacy Tech is not all that bad though. Good luck to him in the future.

Thanks Tenn Navy Mom for putting up about the Marine tradegy. I am keeping all involved in my prayers. There is a Navy corpsman that was seriously injured in this tradegy. He is in very serious condition. My prayers and heart go out to his family also.

Comment by Paula's/son/corpsman/ on March 21, 2013 at 1:50pm: I am probably not going to be back to the group for a while. My son is in "A" school in SA and wanted FMF, but his orders are for Pharmacy Tech. He is very disappointed and is going to try for FMF later on, but for now, orders are what they are. I will continue my prayers for those in the sandbox until everyone is home safe!

Comment by CRUISES72 on March 20, 2013 at 11:42am: Hello everyone!

I am new to this group. My son has been at CL for over 2 yrs now (which I love cause we live in NC-2 hours away!) he has been green side and loves it!

He will be leaving in June to go to Okinawa, Japan 3rd MAR DIV FMF

He is very excited and I am too for him. He will have the chance to get his pin which I think is a great achievement. I have heard it is a long process tho.......

Comment by Vipergirl on March 19, 2013 at 11:30am: Thanks Tenn Navy Mom,

He is Corpsman/PMT. (Preventative Medical Tech).

Would love to hear from any other PMT moms about their sailor's deploymen experiences.

Comment by Vipergirl on March 19, 2013 at 9:09am: Hi, Glad I found this group. My son has been at CL since Oct and will be deploying in June. He had to cancel leave this week to do deployment training this week. Definitely bummed. Also, I am proud of him but definitely not looking forward to his first deploymen. Happy to find a kindred group.

Comment by medic mom on February 26, 2013 at 8:50pm: Sorry I haven't been around much lately. On vacation from work and don't get to the group as much as I should lately. Welcome to all the new members that have joined. Please introduce yourselves and let us know about your corpsman.

Been real spoiled with my son lately. We have been chatting on FB daily right now since I am home to type better. We usually chat every other day while I am at work. Use my phone to chat with him and it gets hard to get everything in. He is at home base so he gets the opportunity to talk more with me. It is great.

Hope you all are doing good. We are getting a butt load of snow here in Illinois. Been snowing all day. First good snow we have had in 2 years and it is a welcome sight.

Have a great night everyone.

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on February 23, 2013 at 2:34am: I'm so happy for you!!!!!! NOTHING like hearing that voice, nothing in the world....

Hey I'm glad to hear the box got there and they liked it - now I have a smile too but not like yours! Look forward to you snagging a pic and sharing. Sleep well tonight mama, you got a great call!!!

Comment by medic mom on February 23, 2013 at 2:03am: Just wanted to let you all know that my son called me from the sandbox tonight. I am on happy mom. Loved hearing his voice. He was just getting ready to rounds at base. It was wonderful to hear from him. Happy mom!!!!!! He's doing good. Has one more board to do and then he can get his FMF pin. Cannot wait to hear about it when he gets it. Gonna have someone take pics and post them on FB so I can try to steal them and hopefully get a pic on here when it happens.

Marcy.....he got his box and he says thanks a million. They all loved it. It was a big hit. Thank you for that.

Comment by DramaSoul on February 12, 2013 at 11:09pm: Tenn Navy Mom...he is doing well. He is working in a hospital on a Marine base and loves being a Corpsman and he loves his Marines! He is currently working nights so we haven't had lots of conversations because he is generally going to bed when I am arriving at work.

Comment by medic mom on February 12, 2013 at 6:54pm: Welcome Dan's Dad! Glad to have you here. Thanks for all the support. I'll try to keep you updated as much as possible.