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
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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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How did you find us?
I am so excited. :)
This is the best snowball ever! I’ve been so curious…how did you find out about our community? Some moms have told me about the http://www.nstc.navy.mil/rtcgl/family/index.html site… Is that were you found us... or was it through another source? Thank you!
UPDATE 4/20/2008: Hi Everyone! I brought this forward because I really want to know! :) How did you find out about us?!
UPDATE: 2/17/2010: Hello N4M's. We are interested in where all of our members founds us! Stop by and leave a message.
Thank you for making this community what it is today!
Elizabeth and Colleen
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Permalink Reply by Lisa Proud Texas Mom on
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I found this sit through a tv commercial.
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I was looking for "Navy Mom" clothing, and saw the link in the search engine. Then, later, my daughter sent me the name of the website in a letter.
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ready for this. I was sitting on the computer playing msn games and while waiting for the game to upload this site came up! Whoever came up with this site, you are one awesome person - thank you!
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I found the link on my Myspace page. I guess it showed up because I have the phrase Proud Navy Mom in my profile. I don't really care how it found my page, I am just grateful that it was there. I honestly never would have looked for any help. I guess I am too Texan. I just reach down and grab my bootstrap and walk on (even when I never fully straighten up and look stupid walking) metaphorically speaking that is. :)
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I actually found this site Navy 4 Moms as an advertisement on MySpace. I don't always take MySpace seriously so when I found what I found here, I was really excited. Thank you for all of you being here and sharing your hopes, dreams, fears and inspirations. I hope I'm able to give back what I have already taken from here... support from others who truly understand... What a wonderful place!!!
God Bless Our Sailors and the Mom's that Love them!!!
~Paula
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I found this website today on the rachelray website in an ad. This is amazing because my son has told me he will probably be deployed soon. I have a strong faith but I worry for his 3 children who count on him. This website will be a great help to me I am sure.
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I saw an add in a magazine while waiting in a hospital waiting room. I never thought it would be such a cool site. This is my first day here and I find it easy to navigate through. The knowledge and the support we can get from each other through this site is awesome. Keep up the good work!!! Khat
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I was struggling when my son left for Boot Camp, and Googled "Navy Mom" just looking for some place where I could get info - the better informed I am the better I can support his decisions. This site was one of the biggest "hits" on the search. Come to find out, not only have I learned a lot about the processes, I've made a lot of new "friends" who are going through the same thing I am - convincing me I was NOT going crazy!!! Plus - the ones who are on here who are truely on the "inside" have been so extremely helpful with my questions. I could never get through all of this without the kind of support I have found here.
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I found the two page ad of Karen Gallagher in the February 2009 issue of Better Homes and Gardens. Thanks for all the info that seems to be here. I have ALOT of looking to do. Joyce
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I found this site because my son who has been in the Navy for about 15 months now sent me a picture of the Navy for Moms logo! God love him anyway! He knows what a rough time I had dealing with him growing up and going away and he has done everything he knows to make it easier for me. I truly was blessed when this child was given to me!
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