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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:
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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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PRIVATE MESSAGING, POSTING COMMENTS & EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS
1. Each GROUP, such as ours has a Comment Wall where any member can post but you do have to join the group first. You can also add a comment to any of the topics under the GROUP'S Discussion Forum. ANYONE CAN SEE THESE COMMENTS (members and non-members of the group)
2. On N4M BLOGS and FORUMS (from the Menubar with the tabs), you can start a BLOG or Discussion or post a comment (or a reply to another comment) on a blog or forum topic. ANYONE CAN SEE THESE COMMENTS (no membership required).
3. ON INDIVIDUAL PERSONAL PAGES. You can see the comments posted to a member's page as well as profile information, photos, videos unless that person has set their profile to PRIVATE. You can click on "Settings" under your name subtitle or you can go to "MY PAGE" to change your profile setting. If a member's profile is set to PRIVATE, only your "friends" can see read the comments. Click on my photo, you'll see what a private profile looks like. If I post a comment a member's page (we are not friends) and the member replies to me, she/he will be able to see the thread by not the rest of my personal info, photos, videos.
4. The N4M EMAIL SYSTEM. If you want to send a message which only you and another friend (or friends) will see, you can do that by using the N4M emailing. On the upper right hand corner, you'll see your name followed by "Inbox", "Alerts", "Friends" and "Settings". If you want to compose a message, click on "Inbox", click on "Compose", select the friend you want to send a message to, writ your message and click on send. You will also see next the "Friends" is you have any request. If you do, click on that and accept (if you want to - keeping in mind that any of your friends will be able to view your comment wall.)
NOTE REGARDING THE PRIVATE MESSAGING.
1. If you send a pm to a friend, a notification will appear in your REGULAR email system in your inbox. The text (partial text) of the message will appear. YOU CAN NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE VIA YOUR REGULAR EMAIL SYSTEM. You must login to the N4M site, go to "Inbox", open the message, then reply.
2. If you get a group message and you "Reply to all" then anyone on recipient list of the original email will get this reply (even if you are not friends with that person). You can reply to JUST the sender. in fact, it's preferable to REPLY to just the sender, rather than REPLY TO ALL.
NOTIFICATIONS WHEN YOU GET A MESSAGE OR COMMENTS.
1. If you belong to a group or have posted a comment to a blog or forum, you will get notifications on you REGULAR email system (inbox). This can result in a LOTS of emails messages. To prevent this, you can click on "Stop Following" on any group you belong to or on any blog/forum that you have posted a comment. "Stop Following" doesn't mean you are leaving the group - just discontinuation of the message notifications. There is no "Stop Following" to private messages from your "friends"; therefore, please be judicious in sending out cute graphics messages such as "Happy Friday", "Have a great weekend." etc. It's tedious to delete and therefore annoying to get those messages in your regular inbox, N4M inbox and your on your Blackberry.
2. You can also change your email notifications within SETTINGS
- Click on SETTINGS (located on the upper right - part of your status box)
- Click on EMAIL (located on the left)
- The are six categories: Navy For Moms Messages, Requests & Invitations, Contents & Members, Moderation, Activity & Turn Off All Emails
If turn off notification on messages from groups, that means you will not get any notified when there is a message on ANY of the groups to which you belong. If you want to get notifications from one or two of your groups (assuming you belong to many), then don't check the option but click on "Stop Following" underneath the comment box for each group. Keep in mind the "Stop Following" displayed means you are following and "Follow" displayed means you are NOT following. Personally, I find the following to be the most efficient:
1) under N4M messages - check personal message, message from event and comment on My Page.
2) under Requests & Invitations - check all
3) under Contents and Members - check none
4) Moderation - check
5) Activity - check in my group, new member joins
6) Turn Off All Emails - don't check.
If you are going on vacation, you can check "Turn Off All Emails" until you come back from vacation. Be sure to turn uncheck this when you come back from vacation.
DON'T FORGET TO CLICK "SAVE" WHEN DONE.
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Permalink Reply by Brenda Sue on
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Thank you - especially for the last one! Several people have come with REAL serious issues via PM - so I HAVE to check them regularly! It is frustrating to be BUSY and it just be a "Happy Friday" message.
I am the person to come to if someone knows of a special need. We will be glad to put them in Molly's Adopt a Sailor - Special Hugs (Click Here) discussion. Really, we want addresses to send cards to the military people who are "hurting".
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Permalink Reply by BunkerQB on
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Brenda Sue, please feel free to pm me if you find something that need revising or ...... I know you are very familiar with the how this site works. I may call on you to write a few of the topics. OK?
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Of course!! I sure will - I love to "edit" people's work. In fact on Facebook, that is what I do to all the teenagers that type in "text" language. I can't stand it. I had to buy a qwerty keyboard for a phone because I want all punctuation and capitalization even when I text!
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Permalink Reply by Tee-1sailor's mom on
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Brenda Sue, what's a qwerty keyboard? Sounds interesting.
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That is what they call a keyboard like the computer keyboard because the first letters on the top are q -w- e-r-t-y
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Brenda Sue, you're a riot. LOL. How are you doing Tee? Wondering around this site now? Better watch out, you're getting really hooked. Hope to see you on March 28 Meet & Greet.
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Hi Bee, I've been on a "Roller Coaster" a lot lately! LOL I'm gonna try to make it on 3/29! Gotta talk to a few of my bffs about it. (((HUGS)))
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MARCH 28. SUNDAY Really looking forward to meeting you. You'll love talking to everyone. Great group.
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That's so funny because I've been a typing for like, 35+ years and never noticed that! duh....
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Probably depends on what service you have. I use Verizone and the LG phones are great. Most of the Verizone phones now require you to include internet service with their better phones.
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Permalink Reply by shell on
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Nice that you did this.
You should add "What happened to my email notifications"
gmail and hotmail will often block n4m mail as spam if to many emails are recieved in a short time. So when all else fails and you can't find your email check your safe and block senders in your personal email.
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Permalink Reply by diane {Shawns mom} on
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Thanks...for giving such good direction. These are issues that many members start blogs on. And to direct someone to one particular place to find them is easy!!!
I second the last one....PM...I use for emergancy..and PRIVATE!♥
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