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.

Format Downloads:

Navy Speak

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.)

N4M Merchandise


Shirts, caps, mugs and more can be found at CafePress.

Please note: Profits generated in the production of this merchandise are not being awarded to the Navy or any of its suppliers. Any profit made is retained by CafePress.

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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November 2008 Blog Posts (29)

The Sea Calls, a sailor's poem

The Sea Calls

By M. Clayton



In the warmth of a golden afternoon,

A mother waits for the clatter

Of boys and their friends, soon.

Silent hours pass, no chatter,

Her young son has been called to the sea.



In the darkness of a night without sleep,

A bride reaches across the bed.

Fingers brush the empty sheet,

She misses the man she has wed;

Her husband has been called to the sea.



Playing and laughing, a child with her… Continue

Added by Anti M on November 11, 2008 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

ADMIN UPDATE: Members MUST Read ASAP: Updated RULES.

Hello N4M Members!

Important stuff here and I need everyone to read it. We’ll be enforcing some new rules starting today per direction of the Navy. No need to get upset or panic… okay? I like to call this the growing pains of getting bigger and needing to become a bit stricter about a few things.



1. So, Navy saw it as a breach of security on N4M’s when members were telling other members how to bend and break the rules (IE get into PIR w/o a parking pass). Thus, any… Continue

Added by Navy for Moms Admin on November 10, 2008 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

Anchors Aweigh

When I got out of the shower and headed into the bedroom this morning, the local news had the Army Band on. They were playing Anchors Aweigh. I burst into tears. Silly me.

Added by Anti M on November 10, 2008 at 11:11am — 3 Comments

How to Discipline "Properly"

Most of the American populace thinks it improper

to spank children, so I have tried other methods

to control my kids when they have one of 'those

moments’



One that I found effective is for me to just take

the child for a car ride and talk.



Some say it's the vibration from the car, others say

it's the time away from any distractions such as TV,

Video Games, Computer, IPod, etc.



Either way, my kids usually calm down and…
Continue

Added by Brenda Sue on November 8, 2008 at 12:30am — 3 Comments

My Sailors

I got a call from my buddy Troy, they're finally back in port. He's going to take two weeks leave over Thanksgiving, so we'll get the chance to visit. He's an ET, directly inspired by hubby and myself ... since we were both ETs. He's even on hubby's old ship! He's a great guy, loves the Navy and plans on twenty years at least.



And the very same day Troy called, I got a letter from my nephew in bootcamp. He's learned some new knots, which is an in joke about camping for us. Poor kid… Continue

Added by Anti M on November 7, 2008 at 1:20pm — No Comments

Military Life

Ok, friends. This Blog is not meant to hurt anyone feelings or make anyone feel not worthy. God loves us all the same. But I thought it might enlighten those of you that don't come from a military background. This is what your son, your daughter, your husband or your wife will experience. The greatest life of all. Enjoy!



When a Military Veteran leaves the 'job' and retires to a better life, many are jealous, some are pleased, and others, who may have already retired, wonder if the… Continue

Added by J from O on November 5, 2008 at 7:21pm — 1 Comment

Quote Me, Capture This: 11/5/2008

Quote of the Week:

"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in everyday people." – Harry Emerson Fosdick

Photos of the Week:



081104-N-5148B-064 SAN DIEGO (Nov. 4, 2008) Senior Chief Master-At-Arms Katherine Gutierriez, assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5), sees her son for the first… Continue

Added by Navy for Moms Admin on November 5, 2008 at 12:12pm — 1 Comment

vote Pictures, Images and Photos Continue

Added by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on November 3, 2008 at 10:09am — 1 Comment

IM GETTING MARRIED!!!! WHOOOOO!!!!

Blake agreed with me that it was best to do our ceremony before he leaves. I'm so excited i can hardly stand it!! I'm so excited that we only get two days as husband and wife but it makes seeing him after basic anticapated more! lol. Both of us decided, before we met, to wait until we were married to have sex. So it makes our day even more special. But it has really taken him leaving off my mind. Before we thought of this it was all I thought about. Because I was panicking because we weren't… Continue

Added by WHITNEY (B's WIFE) on November 2, 2008 at 1:48am — No Comments

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