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.)
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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 December 26, 2017 at 1:48pm
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anna...so very sad for your daughter. Blessings to her & you &hubby during this stressful ytime
....such a shame huh, at Christmas time :(
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Comment by Anna on December 26, 2017 at 12:10pm
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Merry Christmas everyone and enjoy your time with your sailors!! I'm here in Oklahoma with my officer daughter, but it's a very sad time for her. When she came home from her deployment her husband announced he didn't love her anymore and wanted a divorce. He had been planning this whole thing while she was deployed and then moved out one week before Christmas!! She knew he was unhappy but she was trying everything to fix their problems because divorce was never an option in her mind. She's just so brokenhearted that he didn't want to try to work things out. Please say some prayers for her to get through this. Now my hubby and I are going to have to move into her house to help take care of her pets this next year of deployments until she transfers to a shore tour. Such an adjustment for all - hubby and I are not dog people and she has 3!!!!!
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Comment by Baker on December 24, 2017 at 10:34am
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Merry Christmas Friends!
Every Christmas is different. This year we are in Virginia Beach with our Sailor and his beautiful wife who is expecting twins in March! What a present that will be! It is just fun to be with them and do everyday things with them.
It would be wonderful if every Christmas was like this. We know that is not always possible for everyone.
Our blue candle is Glowing for all our Sailors, Family, Friends and Babies waiting to be born!
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Merry Christmas! ❤️
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Hurrah!! Our Sailor's home for a week ! (short visit this time--Mama Navy needs him back) ♥️♥️ *Anybody else ??
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Love that BLUE candle KriKris!
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Great News KRIS YES, Blessings to your gal! ♥️♥️
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Comment by krikris on November 23, 2017 at 12:18am
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HOORAY!!! Thank you, thank you, Storymom!! Got it!
Lit my blue candle on Monday when DD left for the hotel, she’s in GL now and I’m waiting for my “I’m here” phone call.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Our Blue Candle is Glowing for All Our Sailors, Families, Friends and Babies waiting to be born. For the people of Las Vegas, Santa Rosa and Texas.
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