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Navy For Moms

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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

Events

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**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:

RTC Graduation

**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.

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Graduation Info
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Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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N4M GROUPS: Listed By Navy Job (Ratings)

Here is the compiled list for Navy For Moms groups by Navy Job (Ratings).

Click on a link to go to a specific group. Groups are sorted alphabetically. Please let me know if you know of a group that should be included. NOTE: The link to the each group will open up in the new window - to go back to the compiled list, click on the "GROUPS: Listed By Navy Job" tab just above the screen the N4M site (and below your browser info).

Check out Lemonelephant's Excel spreadsheet - we hope to incorporate at a later date.

Ratings, A School Locations and links to Groups

Click on this file to go to a Discussion by lemonelephant who maintains and updates it. Fantastic Excel spreadsheet of groups collated by location.

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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on June 1, 2012 at 10:43pm

There are no groups for GSM specifically, so check out Engineers, Snipe Moms(enginers), and Snipe Moms. Since A School is at GL, check out Great Lakes A School Q&A and GL A-school moms. Some other sites to check out are Training-Support-Center-TSC-Great-Lakes Facebook Page and Training-Support-Center-TSC-Great-Lakes Brochure.

(Group and site names within this reply are clickable links.)

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Permalink Reply by BunkerQB on July 26, 2012 at 2:44am

Scroll up to number 78. I just finished revising the list. Good luck to your daughter. Please besure you join the Boot Camp Moms group and her PIR group.

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Permalink Reply by BunkerQB on July 28, 2012 at 11:46am

Good going. I see you are from CA. There are quite a few CA group - although the ones in So Cal are not a active as the two from North Cal - we have biggers mouths. You are welcome to hang with us. We have many members (out of the 350) from So Cal. In fact, one of them came up here for one of our meet and greets. Here is the link - it's a private group (comments viewable by members only) in case you want to join.

http://www.navyformoms.com/group/sfbayareanavyfamilies

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Permalink Reply by Tricia51 on November 9, 2012 at 5:02pm

What job in the Navy has to do with the media?

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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on November 9, 2012 at 7:03pm

That would most likely be Mass Communication Specialist (MC). The groups for that are Mass Communication Specialist and Parents whose Sailors are stationed at FT. Meade. Here is the link to the Fact Sheet.

(Group names and the link to the Fact Sheet are clickable links.)

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Permalink Reply by Skeeter4A5 ( Ship 02 Div 936 ) on May 13, 2013 at 4:29pm

My daughter will be an Aviation Structural Mechanic. I think that the abbreviation is AM. I don't see this group . Can you help?

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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on May 13, 2013 at 6:01pm

There is not a group for just that rating. In addition to the groups BQB indicated, check out Naval Aviation and Parents of A School Sailors in Pensacola. The Rating Information Card for that rating can be found at https://www.cool.navy.mil/enlisted/rating_info_cards/am.pdf. If you find enough people who are interested in starting a group, you or one of them can start a group and let us know.