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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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Duty Station NAS Oceana, VA Beach VA

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This group is for families who are stationed in Oceana or family members of sailors stationed at NAS Oceana.

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Comment by gmanswife on August 31, 2010 at 8:35pm: well we would but they said it would be at least 3 months before they could give us anything. and we'll be there in about 3 weeks.. and i really don't want to live out of a hotel room for 3 months.... :) this is so new and i'm so stressed out already! AHh haha! can't even imagine how bad it will be actually moving!

Comment by Chelsea-NAVYWIFE on August 31, 2010 at 5:00pm: I live in the military housing, wadsworth shores and I LOVEEE it here. Before I moved down we looked at apartments online a lot of them looked really nice online but once we got here we went and checked a few out and they were all pretty awful, I highly recommend the military housing.

Comment by gmanswife on August 31, 2010 at 3:05pm: my husband just recieved orders to NAS Oceana, and i am in the process of house/apartment hunting. This moving thing is very new to me and i'm having a hard time finding a decent place. I was wondering if anyone had any opinions on the area, where to look, where to avoid, etc...

Comment by Chelsea-NAVYWIFE on July 23, 2010 at 9:04pm: Can someone help me use the move.mil website. Its so confusing...

Comment by Chelsea-NAVYWIFE on July 23, 2010 at 9:17am: My husband's orders popped up this morning, but I have NO CLUE how to read what they say?!?! What dates am I looking for??! How do I get any info for it when there are like 12 differents NLT dates?!

Comment by Chelsea-NAVYWIFE on July 18, 2010 at 11:39pm: I have a question. The lady at FFSC told us for our move, we get reimbursed for everything, like the gas, lodging and food. But i need to know if we get any of that money for the move beforehand. Otherwise we cant afford the move, we only have on paycheck between now & then and it wont coven even a third of the cost of gas/food/lodging just for the trip. Not to mention the cost of staying at the Navy Lodge once we get there. I am so overwhelmed!!

Comment by CCoulson2010 on June 20, 2010 at 11:40pm: hello!! my sailor is getting ready to grad A-school in fl on the 30th and the next stop is oceana. i had a few questions to try to help ease both of our minds. Does anyone know where or when VFA-11 will be going and if they are getting deployed soon. we are just trying to get a time table together on if she has time after her 10 day homecoming to get an apt. or will she be sent on deployment right away. any help would be greatly appreciated!! thanks

Comment by Kayla (Dann's Wifey) on June 15, 2010 at 11:17am: Well the only thing I pretty much know about the whole detachment (DET) is that they either fly to a place or on sea with their squadron, they basically do the same job, they're just practicing with other squadrons as well. My husband has one next month to Florida, and they have them like once a month or every month. They're getting ready for their first deployment on the Bush for next year.

Comment by Kayla (Dann's Wifey) on June 14, 2010 at 6:23pm: Hi Anne, my husband is stationed in Oceana as well, he is also in a Squadron, he is going to Key West July 7th maybe that's when your son is going, but DET is a detachment. If thta is where he is going soon then they will probably be gone for just a couple weeks.

Comment by Kayla (Dann's Wifey) on June 3, 2010 at 8:23pm: Hi everybody, my husband got stationed here a few months ago so I am all new to this, any advice would be great.