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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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RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

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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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What to expect

Our son leaves for basic training in 30 days and we do not know what to expect. He has attended UF for the last 4 years and made the decision to join the Navy. We are very proud of him and we know that he has made the right decision to serve his country. Any help or advise for my husband and myself would be greatly appreciated to help us with his departure. The lack of not being able to talk to him will be extremly hard.

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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on September 20, 2012 at 3:21pm

I know; that's why I sometimes give more info than is asked and almost always try to point the person to the groups that will be the most informative and supportive for them in their situation and even tell them how to go about joining since some don't know how to do that.

Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on September 20, 2012 at 4:01pm

Concernedad, Not everyone finds N4M before their future Sailor ships off to BC.  N4M was here beginning in March of 2008 and yet I discovered it and joined the Monday after My Sailor had PIR in October 2008.  A person joined today the day before her Sailor's PIR.  There are all kinds of situations for when a loved one joins an we just have to steer them in the right direction.  A mom of a Sailor would not need to see the info that was originally mentioned in this thread so you can have a cookie cutter set of things that new members must read--except for the Community Guidelines and everyone should read them.  If they did, we wouldn't have to tell people not to post last names or to change their Usernames and URL to their profile page.  (If someone reads this and realizes you need to make the changes, see If your Username contains your last name, consider changing it (clickable link).)

Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on September 20, 2012 at 3:52pm

The N4M Admin has been great and has Featured the Discussion-twice even!!!  (Thanks Colleen!)  I hope that helps those who find us before their future Sailors ship off to BC.

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