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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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A Blue Candle Event ♥
Event Details
Time: December 4, 2019 to December 3, 2020
Location: Anytime, Anywhere, Any Home or Office
Event Type: family, event, celebration, reunion
Organized By: A Blue Candle Event Group - Alicia from Texas
Latest Activity: Nov 5, 2020
Event Description
When you're missing your Sailor -- Light a Blue Candle!
A wonderful way to honor Sailors Anytime, Anywhere!
During Boot, PIR, specialized training, deployment or when you're just thinking about your loved one on distant shores.
Don't forget holidays, family events or birthdays - Just light a a blue candle, any type of blue candle (Blue for Navy) and allow its warm glow to bring you comforting joy & peaceful solace, and while separated from your Sailor.
Blessings to all our Sailors all over the World ♥
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Comment by Storymom on November 22, 2017 at 8:45pm
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KRIS: on I-Pad at top of this page, is the gray-ish toolbar saying Navyformoms.ning.com. It has the little arrow 'refresh' symbol on the right side of the bar. Long press on that search bar space with finger, then lift finger and a hidden menu pops up. Mine shows just google icon, until I scroll upward just a nudge and "request desktop version" appears as a choice! Tap on That! In seconds, you have the tool bar with icons for adding images, bold type, italics, etc, as we all do, here on NFM. Here's my screen shot, (AFTER the long press & when I scrolled just above google's icon)
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GOT IT Kris Kris! Easy fix. I'll explain here, then send you a private message ...so check navyformoms messages, so we don't annoy all the nice folks here with this I-Pad jargon, okay? :) :)
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Krikris: go to settings in I-Pad, find Safari. in that grouping- there should be a desktop/ mobile version to toggle on & off? I'm not at my ipad right now-I'm at work..... (I use Puffing Browser often with I-PAD and its settings are in upper right of my screen, while I browse the web, or view NFM...and I toggle it that way from Desktop to Mobile when I need it) The automatic browser on I-Pads is Safari, already loaded in, so if you never downloaded some new fangled browser (Dolphin, Puffin, etc), then you're using Safari as normal. When I get home, I'll review how SAFARI allows users to change to desktop view/version.
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Comment by krikris on November 21, 2017 at 10:55pm
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Storymom - I’m not seeing anything like that in my settings (looked both at site settings & iPad settings), what am I missing? Unfortunately I can be pretty dense about tech stuff, sorry.
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Comment by Anna on November 21, 2017 at 8:50pm
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Good to know Storymom!!! Thank you!!!
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KRIS: on i-pad, you must be on 'Desktop version' or desktop site, NOT mobile version. see it in your settings ( the gear wheel) desktop version lets you see the toolbar for font, attach photos, bold type, bullets, underline etc.
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Really nice final product!!! Thanks for the info!!!
Enjoy your celebration!!!!
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Used desktop at work to post picture. :)
Actually, I put 12 of them together for our Friends & Family Gathering this weekend (Thanksgiving, DS home from college, DD leaving for BC on Mon/Tue and my 50th birthday is the following Mon). I got the holders & blue LED tea lights off Amazon, anchor charms from Oriental Trading and the “rope” from WalMart.
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krikris,
Well you got me there because I only use my laptop so I don't know how it works with other platforms. Looks like you got a picture to show up!!! Love that candle, where did you find it????
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Yep, formatting row not showing on iPad.
Here's what I've created, I'll light it next week when DD leaves
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