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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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
Latest Activity
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
Shirts, caps, mugs and more can be found at CafePress.
Please note: Profits generated in the production of this merchandise are not being awarded to the Navy or any of its suppliers. Any profit made is retained by CafePress.
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
Badge
Request to change jobs
Is there anything I can do to make changing jobs go faster? I swore in as an airman but I wanted to do cryptology or something in non aviation electronics. I would even be an IT actually. I got an 86 on my asvab. I have a son on the way and he's due in May but I don't have to leave until June. My father was in the Navy and he was an ET. Sometimes when I was younger, he would take me on base with him and show me the radar that he was in charge of. He always called it his radar and I always saw my father as a very important person. This is the same way that I want my son to see me. I will leave in June as an airman but i really want to do something more important and demanding. I want to feel like I'm making a difference and that I'm doing something that makes an impact. It is more important for me to support my family and just be in the Navy than have a great important job. If anyone knows how to switch jobs faster, could you give me some advice? I already filled out a DAR
Views: 871
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by LouFrobish on
-
Thank you. I actually went to Fort Dix yesterday to do the DLAB and I scored pretty high on it so they actually changed my job to CTI right on the spot.
-
Permalink Reply by aveoamare(Ship02div925) on
-
my husband is going in as a cook and he's not too happy about that, he was interested in changing his job as well eventually. He just left for boot camp today so I'm not sure if that's even possible at this point.
-
Permalink Reply by Angie on
-
Odds are less then 1% that he can change it in bootcamp, and only way that would be is if he was disqualifed from being a CS. When he gets to school the chance is down to 0%, unless he fails out of school than he will get the needs of the NAvy rate, which most likley will be undes.
-
Permalink Reply by Ashleysmamaluciana on
-
What does an undesignated airman do??
-
Permalink Reply by Anti M on
-
Clean, paint, hump supplies. You will get to learn about the other rates and do some hands on work, but you will be at the bottom of the heap work-wise.
-
Permalink Reply by bhebert on
-
I am interested in this question too. My SR's recruiter told him he would be able to change jobs within 2 years yet everything I read tells me that this is not true. I agree that every job is important in the Navy and am proud my child has decided to serve. However it does concern me that recruiter's are telling these men and women things that may not be true to encourage them to join. If anyone has any insight on this matter, I am very interested as I would like to be able to share this with my SR so he does not get his hopes up that he will be able to change his job.
-
-
It is technically true in some cases. Not for everyone, and not at a whim. If your SR is in a rate which is undermanned, is in certain essential fields, and is of a certain paygrade, then perhaps he can switch. If the Navy needs him to do the job he trained for, he won't get to cross-rate. Learn this phrase, because it takes precedence over nearly every situation "needs of the Navy".
http://www.militaryspot.com/career/military-job-change/
For example, a sailor on the nuclear field would be unlikely to cross-rate out. You must also qualify for the new rate and the Navy must choose to send the sailor to the new A school if available.
-
-
The recruiter isn't lieing, after people are in the rate for 2 years, they can request to change jobs. BUT...as Anti M said, they must qualify for the new rate. If he wants to be an HM, and joined the USN with a drug waiver, he isn't going HM. IF he wants to be a IS and can't get a clearnace, he won't be an IS. ect...
Also it depends what the USN needs! Right now there are three programs designed to seperate Sailors, who are already in the USN and most of the ones who get picked from these programs want to stay in the USN.
Things change every day, it is very hard to say what will happen in a year from now. Who knows... So the recruiter isn't lieing, he is telling you how it is now which is all he can do.
© 2024 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
