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
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
Badge
CS - Culinary Specialist
General Info:
Culinary specialists are cooks, bakers, dining area and living quarters managers in the Navy. It is commonly accepted that the "mess decks," or dining areas, aboard ship are the "heart of the ship," and the role they play in the morale of the ship is very important. CSs are needed on every ship in the Navy and at every shore base. Navy mess management specialists provide food services for admirals and senior government executives and run the White House Mess for the president of the United States.
What They Do:The duties performed by CSs include: preparing menus and ordering the quantities and types of food items to prepare the food; operating kitchen and dining facilities; keeping records for food supplies and financial budgets; serving as flight attendant aircrewmen; serving as personal food service specialists on admirals' staffs and for the commanding officer aboard ship or at shore bases; operating and managing living quarters aboard ship and at shore based motel/hotel type quarters.
Detailed List of Required Duties
ASVAB Score:
VE+AR=88
Enlistees are taught the fundamentals of this rating through on-the-job training or formal Navy
Great Lakes, IL -- 4 weeks
Food preparation, nutrition, dining service Group instruction and practical application
After "A" school, culinary specialists may be assigned to all types of ships and small craft and to shore facilities in the United States and overseas. During a 20-year period in the Navy, CSs spend about 60 percent of their time assigned to fleet units and 40 percent to shore stations.
Working Environment:
Culinary specialists work in kitchens, dining areas, living quarters and storerooms where food supplies are kept. The work is primarily physical and involves working as part of a team.
Views: 2162
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by Leslie on
-
Good Luck Jess. I will say a little prayer for you tonight, so maybe Kyle can be home close to you.
-
-
And too Hoppi,
I think that our children believe that the world is an oyster waiting for them, then they get a dose of reality and find out like Dorothy did in the Wizard of Oz, that there is no place like home. Guess it's also like getting a regular job and then being sent off to travel on business trips, its fun for a while then it gets to be "a JOB" LOL!!! While I am here.. Is it hard to get stationed in Corpus Christi?
-
Permalink Reply by wendym on
-
My son is in A school right now in GL and he is going to be a CS. does anyone have any advice. I know he goes to A school for 4 weeks then I dont know where he is going after that.
-
-
yes my son just started A school on 10/17 he doesnt know where he will go after that
-
-
my boyfriend graduated at great lakes on 10/17. he is now at A school still in great lakes training to be a CS. your son is a CS?
-
-
My boyfriend is in a school right now to be a CS. He says so far classes are boring but its better than bootcamp. We are hoping for VA but im so afraid of him getting assigned to a ship.
-
-
don't worry to much about if they get assigned to a ship. honestly my daughter was on her ship (Ike) for almost a year and didn't leave port (Norfolk). now I woln't say all ships are that "lucky" but they will spend alot of time in port if they aren't deployed. right now Kas has been out for 4 weeks at the longest on a manuvere cruise and they never left the East coast. even if they are out we can comunicate by e-mail almost daily. so it's not to bad. then there are things like tiger cruises, and friend and family days where you get to be on ship while they are out. I've heard those are really cool but haven't been lucky enough to be on one "yet".
Becky
-
-
oh Norfolk!? We are hoping for VA. Thats pretty cool you can e-mail on a regular basis and possibly go aboard the ship. I hate being away and having no contact but its way better now since my boyfriend can get on the internet. Thanks for the information and i hope you get to see your daughter soon!
-
-
right now my plans are a weekend the end of Nov. If you can it is way worth it to get aboard an aircraft carrier. even at almost 40yrs it "blew my mind" the size of the ship and all the goings on even while it was in port. I can only imagine what it is like when they are "underway". VA seems pretty easy to get, there are lots of ships home ported there so need lots of sailors. good luck to your boyfriend.
Becky
-
-
My son is hoping for Va to. they might know each other keep me posted with any information and i will do the same nice to have you as a friend.
-
-
Oh i definately will, and i would love to know any information, its what keeps me going. You're so sweet, i need people like you to talk to :)
- ‹ Previous
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- Next ›
© 2024 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
