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.)
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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 Heidi (Adam's Mom) on
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I found out about it from my son's recruiter. I was asking questions about PIR and he suggested I would probably find out more than he knows from other moms on this site. I think he only just learned of it a few days prior. Oh, and he was right -- I did find out a lot more here than he seems to know!
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I happened to see this on TV. I have not been on Navy "sites" for awhile as my son is not new to the navy and in fact is now out and a vet. But the transition is hard and I wanted to see what there was here and who was out there that maybe I could visit with and maybe help out. Thanks for this site as a way to answer questions and concerns.
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Permalink Reply by Jamie (Coty's Mom) on
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Well, I have a myspace account and I saw an old friend from high school and I had posted that my son had enlisted in the Navy, well one of his friends Shari sent me a message and said her son was in the Navy and told me about this website. So I joined...Shari and I became online friends and it turned out that her son graduated a year behind my son from the same school. Her son was in the band and mine was on the football team, so here we sat in the same stands at the same time and never knew each other. Small world huh
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I was watching the TV Show The Biggest Loser and it came on an advertisement. I was so surprised and immediately ran to my computer to check it out. My son was getting ready to PIR 3 days later. It was great and still is fantastics the support we have for one another whether your child is just leaving for BC, already in BC, getting ready to PIR, or just PIR'd or has been in for awhile. Thanks everyone for being there.
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Permalink Reply by Lynn Winfree on
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Hello Navy Mom...I found out through a commericial on tv also regis and kelly on u tube...
where a lot of moms and sailors were at the show. in NYC..
my son is on his l4 year...already time marches on and how quickly it goes.
A new friend from ARizona got me hooked up with the Arkansas group being I talk to them also
and recently moved here 2 years ago trying to get use to the seasons changing, where we had hot to
nice..Love the group of woman they are all very supportive and loving and kind
hugs lynn glad you are in this group to you will find it great i do...its only been a few weeks now for me.
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My son's recruiter told me there was "some new website for Moms of sailors." He couldn't remember the site, but I did a Google search and found the site.
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television
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I was on vacation in New York City and there was N4Ms advertisements everywhere!
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Saw this on television. The other day I was talking with my son's recruiter and I told him to tell all his new recruits to let their Mom's know about this site. Wish I had known when my son was in DEP. This site is a blessing from God. Everyone here knows how you are feeling, we are all going thru the same thing.
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I stumbled upon this site after I Googled..."ladies US Navy watch" yesterday! Seemed like a pretty amazing support network, so I joined!
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