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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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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 egbot on
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I actually found this site through my son! He thought it would give me comfort and probably stop me from asking him question after question! It worked, but I learned so much that I was beginning to annoy him with my tons of information!!
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Permalink Reply by Yvette ( Corey's Mom) on
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My son's recruiter told me about the site. my son is leaving for boot camp in November.
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I found a link on the RTC Great Lakes website in 2008 but it does not look like there is anything about Navyformoms there anymore. I went to look and did not find one. I am not sure how people are finding us now!!
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Permalink Reply by SOBE,PIR 6/4/10 IT Mom, Italy on
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My son's recruiter told me about it! But then I was so busy reading the Navy's site that I only just remembered "Navy for Moms" this weekend, so I just joined! My son graduates in less than 3 weeks (PIR 6/4 Ship 07, Div 201).
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I did a search for Navy Mom forums....this is what I got. My son wants to join...I don't want any "I wish I would have knows"
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oh ya....and we are not a military family so I don't know all the lingo...lol
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Permalink Reply by AnxiousFutureRecruit on
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I wish I could remember... But no matter how I found it, I'm glad I did. The help and support on here is like none other. Thank you N4M's for being here and accepting those of us that are not moms, but here for the support!
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Permalink Reply by NavyMom on
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i'm so desperate to find out what's going on in a boot camp, so i've been searching the internet for information and am so thankful to find your site. it's very informative and got a lot of emotional support from members which a mom like me really need at this time when you really missed your son/daughter. It' a site of comfort. Thank You!
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I don't remember but I think it may have been on the About.com website? Funny thing it took almost 11 months for my son to ship out, I had been on this site for at LEAST 6-8 mos by then. The recruiter gave me a refridgerator magnet for navyformoms.com and I said TOO LATE! :)
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Permalink Reply by georgieberry on
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I found N4M's on the site for my son's ship. I am grateful for a forum to connect with people in the same situation as myself. Thank you ...
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Permalink Reply by lornaknits on
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I belong to a knitting community called Ravelry.com. When my daughter joined the Navy recently, I looked for other Navy Moms on Ravelry and they refered me to this site. I am very pleased to have the resources and experiences of so many Moms! Tomorrow I meet with my daughter and her recruiter to learn more!
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