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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:
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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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.
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Click on this link -PIR February 18, 2011
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TIPS on How To Use This Site and Tips
USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION (to find groups, blogs, forum discussions, members). This function should be your new best friend. Before posting a new blog or forum discussion, do a search to see if there is a pre-existing thread about the subject. For example, you want to know about "the first call", click or Forum, you see a input box with a little search icon (looks like magnifying glass). Type in "first call" then click on the icon. You'll find that within Forum, there are 2000+ entries as of today. Obviously, many before you have asked about the "first call."
COMMUNICATING WITH OTHER MEMBERS:
Communications is done primarily by posting comments in the groups, other members' pages, blogs and forum discussions. Members often post comments on another member's personal page (tip - you can also comment on your own personal page but use the "comment back" to reply to a comment from another member). Many members enjoy the CHAT room. The action too fast and there are multiple of conversations going so it's difficult for someone to answer your questions in a detailed fashion - be patient.Get in the habit of the following:
- Check your personal page. Click on MY PAGE on menubar.
- Check on your Status Box (upper right hand corner) for private messages (Inbox), Friends (Requests), Alerts. Just underneath that, you see Invitations from other members to join one group or another or possibly an invitation to attend a meet and greet.
Remember you can only get messages from your "friends" Please go the How To Do Stuff on N4M for more information and to read up about private messaging, how to change your profile setting, etc. - Check the latest activities with the groups you belong to. You can join as many as you have time for.
- If you are getting too many email notifications, don't tear your hair out and don't leave your groups. Simply go to each of your groups (as well as blogs and forum discussions) and click "STOP FOLLOWING" underneath the comment box. You can also control your notification by going to Settings (on your status box), then click on Email. From here you can determine on what occasions you would like email notificatioins. Personally, I check the following: personal message, comment on my event, comment on my page and all three under "Request and Invitations" - that is it. On the bottom you can turn off all email notifications if you are going on vacations - just remember to reset when you come back.
I have written a number of Forum Discussions under the Category "HOW TO DO STUFF ON N4M? Take some time and scroll the discussions, read up on the suggestions. PLEASE TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO LEARN TO USE THIS SITE. We are here to help you. It will take some time to learn how to navigate this site. We are all just volunteers with sailors of our own too. Many of our sailors are out on deployment. Some of us may not have heard from our sons/daughters for WEEKS, or seen them for many, many MONTHS. We all had to adjust, most of us did it without Navy For Moms. It will be an emotional roller coaster. So, take a deep breath, be patient, you will get adjusted too.
Regards, BunkerQUEENBee
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