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
Latest Activity
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
Big project - June party for all grads going military
I am organizing a huge graduation party for all the kids who are already in DEP (and their families) or are considering going into the military in the near future. I'm working with the VFW, the VVA, the Red Shirts and the Emblem Club.
I will also be inviting the recruiters and will ask our local Coast Guard station to provide Colors.
So, what is the best way to throw this party that will make the veterans happy (who are sponsoring/paying for this shindig), make the kids *want* to be there, and make the parents want to let their kids attend?
Should it be a daytime fun party, with silly bounce-room rentals, balloons, games and lots of music?
Should it be an evening reception and formal dance with speakers with some kind of award ceremony from the veterans to the new grads/recruits(challenge coins? some other symbol?)?
And should we hold it the week before, the day before or the afternoon or evening of graduation?
I need ideas, and lots of them!
Views: 33
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by Arwen on
-
Oh, I thought I should mention, we're in a *tiny* town, we may have five or six Deppers, an NROTC or two, and maybe two or three others. That includes all services, not just Navy. We may end up inviting any kids from the next town/high school too, where their graduating class is about 50 kids, maybe two or three headed for the military.
We're so isolated (2 1/2 hours from the nearest recruiter station) they don't even expect our kids to make it to the DEP meetings each month. If they do, great, they join the other 12 Deppers in the region. Instead the recruiters hold a mini-meeting for the two kids in town currently in Navy DEP when they come to town for other reasons.
This event will be specifically to honor the new high school graduates who are entering military service as part of the town's overall graduation weekend events.
-
Permalink Reply by Navy for Moms Admin on
© 2024 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
