This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

FIRST TIME HERE?

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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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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Anyone with Sailors/Soldiers/Marines in War Zones and Combat Areas

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Anyone with Sailors/Soldiers/Marines in War Zones and Combat Areas

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:

National Resource Directory

The National Resource Directory (NRD) is a website which connects wounded warriors, service members, Veterans, and their families with those who support them.

It provides access to services and resources at the national, state and local levels to support recovery, rehabilitation and community reintegration.

Real Warriors  The Real Warriors Campaign is an initiative launched by the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) to promote the processes of building resilience, facilitating recovery and supporting reintegration of returning service members, veterans and their families.


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 

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.

Military Pathways Facebook 

To help those who may be struggling, the DoD teamed up with the nonprofit organization Screening for Mental Health to launch Military Pathways (TM), also known as the Mental Health Self-Assessment Program (MHSAP). The program is available online and at special events held at installations worldwide. Check us out at militarymentalhealth.com. It provides free, anonymous mental health and alcohol self-assessments for family members and service personnel in all branches including the National Guard and Reserve.


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.

Military Slang Appendix

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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To all who drop by! WELCOME! please post below so we can get to know you. If you send a message around to 'all members' , we CANNOT respond. So, please introduce yourself below, and remember to not share dates or specfic movements by any military unit on the board! Thank you!! and again WELCOME!!

Discussion Forum

Son in Spin Boldak

Started by rysony. Last reply by rysony Mar 14, 2012. 40 Replies

Sailors in Afghanistan with boots on the ground

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Comment by MikeysMom2 on June 9, 2015 at 11:41am

Hi Everyone.... I am back.  My son returned from Afghan in October and then somewhere toward the end of the year my computer crashed.... lost a lot of my "favorites" pages....

Anyway, haven't been on since then but now that I am just letting you all know thoughts and prayers with all of you and any deployed kids.     Here we go again with mine.... ARGH!!!!!

Comment by Tamme on June 5, 2015 at 9:43am

Thanks to the support of Kroger and Coca-Cola, I have helped donate Coca-Cola to our troops. Help us reach our goal of donating up to 100,000 Coca-Cola cans to our Troops.

 

http://www.honoringourheroes.com/share-a-coke

Comment by JerseySusan on June 2, 2015 at 8:09pm

TNM, I'm doing better than I ever thought. I'll take all the prayers coming my way.  We had a skype with him a couple of weeks ago, so that was really "NICE"!!  He looked healthy very upbeat and told us he is already accepting is next duty station in NM. He said "Mom, you know NM is actually my elements of living. I always wanted to walk out of my back door and have a big sandbox to ride my dirt bikes and quads." Not that it's any different from what he's in now. But, he'll be back to living in his paradise cove for a couple of months before making that transition. So glad some of that terrible weather has finally broken TDM. 

Comment by TexasDocMom on May 28, 2015 at 7:35pm

Thank you, Susan. It's so heartbreaking to see the loss across our state, the young and old lives, the destruction.  More weather coming in tonight, I don't know how those who have lost so much will handle it. The young McComb family  were the children of  Joe McComb, we graduated from different high schools in Corpus Christi about the same time. Great family, gorgeous children, generous hearts. The other family was really hit hard. I didn't know of them, he was a retired dentist from Corpus, with his wife, daughter, son in law and grandchild. Just heart breaking. So many more stories as well. Houston is a swamp anyway, and this rain just makes it crazy. Thank for your continued prayers. I hope all are doing well, You never know,  your son might fall in love with New Mexico, I know many who have!

Comment by JerseySusan on May 28, 2015 at 4:11pm

Thinking about you TexasDoc with all that terrible weather of rain & flooding going in your state....:(  Praying for all your continued safety in your household & your neighboring community.

Comment by Tamme on May 27, 2015 at 1:40pm

Hope everyone is doing well.  I thought you would like to see the link to a great t-shirt:http://teespring.com/c32a_g3_3961?fb=eml

Comment by JerseySusan on May 12, 2015 at 12:47pm

Happy "belated" Mother's Day to All!! I had to relieve my sister x 2 weeks who takes care of our 92 old father who is suffering terrible with Parkinson's, so she and her husband could go away on a little vacation.

Heard from our son on Mother's Day. I was soooo happy & blessed the phone call lasted as long as it did since they are in an area of very poor connection. He finally rec'd his packages all of us sent out 2 months ago. He was a little down, he found out when he returns home, he's leaving his beautiful beach base @ Hurlburt/Ft Walton to the isolated sands @ Cannon AFB in Clovis NM. He's really going to miss that base it was only a 6 hour drive from us & my m-in-l lives there so he was very blessed to get a home cooked meal every other weekend <3  But it is what it is. He's heard a lot of negativity about the next one from others who are there & have already been there, so I've been researching some positives about the location to hopefully pull him out of a slump that he's feeling right now. :(   I'll try my very best through some emails to encourage and build him up for his next move. In the mean time, just praying all is safe with him, his unit & the many others deployed.     

Comment by Pam on May 11, 2015 at 4:26pm

Love that T-shirt!  I have a friend that got a call from her Sailor while he is on an underway!  That just made her day!

Comment by Tamme on May 11, 2015 at 10:00am

Where did you find that great t-shirt?  Happy Mother's Day!

Comment by TexasDocMom on May 10, 2015 at 10:07am

 

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