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 Karen Shp 13 Div 325 PIR 10/1/10 on
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I found this site in my Better Homes & Gardens Magazine! There is a 1 page add with Karen Gallagher's picture holding a picture of her 3 sons. It said they were in the Nuke program. I thought that was so wild that my name is also Karen & my son is also going into the Nuke program. I have found so much support & information on this site. I'm so glad I found it.
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I wish I had found out about Navy4moms from the recruiting office but I saw the ad in Family Circle while waiting in the Drs. office... Glad I did...
Looking for any moms with sailors in Bahrain!!
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My sailor actually told me to join - so glad she did - I'm loving it
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I found out about this site thru a 'Naval Academy ' website. Lots of us have come over to this site. I love it. Much more casual atmosphere. The other site is very "informative" , but on this site you can show emotions, and feelings and make life long friendships.
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I heard about this site from another member. I have to say that I am VERY impressed by what I've read so far. I can't wait to read more.
Cheerio!
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I found the Navy For Moms website the day we dropped our son off at MEPS to leave for boot camp. There is a bill board on a local state route by our house and they had changed the bill board over that day from a Penn Station ad to the Navy For Moms ad. I saw the sailor on the sign and caught the website as I was driving by. How ironic:) It is a great website with a wealth of information and support. Thanks to all!
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I was sitting looking at my e-mail. Crying, because I was alone, and everyone was in bed sleeping. When down in the corner of my screen was a flashing ad, saying check this out "Navy for Moms". I thought about it for a min, and remembered when I was going through my dad's death, I found a site about grieving this way. It was a sign, I hope it was my dad guiding me to have somewhere and someone that was feeling the same way I was to talk to. A place to put my thoughts down without sounding silly. It was late and I should have been in bed, but I Thank GOD and Dad for guiding me here!
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Isn't it wonderful how God, and moms and dads, work in our lives. Your sailor is lucky to have you. You were in touch with your feelings enough to listen to your heart. Keep listening and chatting with other moms, who are in the same boat as you. We all love our sons and daughters and coming here helps us through the days. I guess it gets easier. I suppose it has for me - it has only been 3+ weeks, and I actually haven't cried in a week. I guess it helps that I have a PIR date and I'm planning that trip now. Now it's a countdown. Only 34 days until I see my son again. Isn't it wonderful to be in touch with so many other people who desperately love their children? I find this site gives me such peace.
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We're glad to have you here, and remember- your not the only one feeling like that. When my jeff was in Iraq, tears would appear out of nowhere, and in some of the strangest places. I really felt like I was losing it, until I found N4Moms, and learned that alot of other moms were going thru the same feelings!! It took a weight off my shoulders, knowing I wasn't alone going thru those feelings. Good luck!
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It's funny, my son was in the Navy for 4 years and now my daughter has been in for 2 years and I just found out about this website a few months ago on a tv commercial. When I logged on to see what it was all about I was ecstatic. Being my o nly daughter and having her all the way over in Japan with no way to see her for at least a year this site has helped me get thru the sadness. Thank you so much! I just wish I had knnown about it sooner. I tell everyone about it (and that's a lot of people because I have Navy stickers all over my SUV, bragging about my daughter being a sailor and a fire fighter). I've made so many new friends and it's so nice to talk to people who really understand. I think my family is tired of hearing about it...lol. Any way THANK YOU!
Charley
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