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:
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:
**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:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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
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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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Random News...Random Things... Admin Update
(1) We have a new masthead. heh. No more "Dove Soap" Looking moms.
(2) Also, update on the political/hot topic forum... A N4M's member has kindly offered to help me write the ground rules for it (so give us a day or so to hammer it out).
(3) Swag... I think I posted something yesterday, but the proposal for N4M swag is being finalized and sent in this week to our Navy Contacts.
Okay- 2 things I am noticing...
(1) Picture uploading. Please go back through your photos that you uploaded and make sure they have some kind of title and/or caption. The question we all ask is what are we looking at and why? :) If you see me not accept your content... and you wonder why, refer back to this blog:
Admin Gets Stricter W/ Content
(2) We're getting a little random with the categories. These are the categories:
ABOUT THIS SITE
How to do stuff on N4M
General Discussion
Advice Forum
Boot camp Forum
PIR--- (Pass In Review)
Contract Forum
School and Education Forum
Homecoming!
Life Goes On (after Boot Camp, And PIR)
Misperceptions about Navy life
Sailor Mom Stories
Thoughts and Well Wishes
Now if you started a thread and now realize, it's better in another section then it's easy to change it.
Go to the Discussion Detail page and beneath the title of your post you will see a “Change” link. Clicking on this will display a drop down menu where you can edit the Category of your Discussion.
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Comment by Navy for Moms Admin on April 10, 2008 at 5:21pm
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Karen's boys... And I am hoping that the thread starters will move them. (so they know where to look for them next time!) :)
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Comment by CCR on April 11, 2008 at 12:49pm
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A question about the pictures. There are 3 places on my page. In the left column you can click on pictures (right by dicussions). then you do get the Heading.
However, in the middle column, under the web site link there are two seperate places for pictures. Have I done something wrong? There seems to be 2 pics, then when you scroll down under that there are the pictures again that are listed in the left column that you have to click on, but now they do not have a heading. (title, caption) Have I made a boo-boo?
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Hey CCR: You made no mistakes :) You just uploaded your photos in two different ways (the slide show above was approve by me... and above that wasn't. It just depends how you want to present them. Both are fine though :)
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Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on April 12, 2008 at 1:43pm
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I miss the Dove moms! I think when we made it to PIR, we would all magically be transformed into one of them!
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Hey Bonnie
No, I haven't- but because there has been so much chatter on it- I might look into it soon- :) I was waiting for the N4M reviews to come in... what do you think of it? cc
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I watched the first hour of Homecoming last night and cried thru most of it. Took me back to my Navy wife days...standing on the Pier in anticipation of seeing my husband after many months of sea.
Must watch the last hour today - I'm sure it is a tear jerker!
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Okay- direct link to the scuttlebutt:
Click here to add and read Scuttlebutt Q's!
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I am enjoying the series, we taped it to and are trying to watch it this weekend. I think it would be great for every DEP family to watch together. Wish it was on before our son left, nothing that it would change his decision but it would have been nice to watch it as a family.
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I need to watch more of it today so I can talk in that thread! Enjoyed what I've seen so far.
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