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Navy For Moms

This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

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.

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Mom's of Navy Daughters

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a support group for mom's w/ daughters who are considering the Navy or already enlisted

Website: http://www,navyformom.navymomsdaughters
Location: USA
Members: 515
Latest Activity: Jun 10, 2023

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Comment by Tuttismimi Ship 11 Div 154 on January 28, 2014 at 12:18am: She will be going to Pensacola. Looking forward to visiting her down there. I hear there are some pretty spots down there. She goes to C school after A school, but I think that is in Pensacola as well. After that she is hoping for something out of the country, but we will see

Comment by Janai'sMom on January 27, 2014 at 11:42pm: She's only been in Japan since November, and is stationed on the USS Ashland. Sasebo is her home base. She'll be there for quite some time, as it's her first duty station. She was very nervous about being so far away at first, but quickly came to love it. Where will your daughter be going to A School?

Comment by Tuttismimi Ship 11 Div 154 on January 27, 2014 at 11:13pm: You are right. I think once BC is over, I will feel much better. Where is your daughter off to after Japan? That would be amazing to be stationed there!

Comment by Janai'sMom on January 27, 2014 at 10:28pm: Hi Tuttismimi. The time really does go by quick when they are getting ready to leave. I won't lie, I think by far the hardest part was while they were at BC, and having very little contact, knowing they're being challenged both mentally and physically. It does get easier, then the countdown to PIR, then seeing your new sailor, it still makes me choke up thinking about it. I'm very blessed right now, my daughter is in Sasebo, Japan, and we are able to talk and text. Unfortunately, that will be over soon. I would have been a wreck had it not been for the support on this site. You find a strength and patience that you didn't know you had once you've been through the BC experience, and will come out a strong Navy mom on the other side!

Comment by Tuttismimi Ship 11 Div 154 on January 27, 2014 at 10:16pm: I love the idea of the Dr Seuss book! Just read over the words. So appropriate. I am going to do that as we'll if you don't mind... My daughter leaves on March 3rd for BC. It seems to be coming so quickly. Sometimes it seems a bit hard to breath when I think about it! It's got to get easier once they have been in for awhile, right??

Comment by Janai'sMom on January 27, 2014 at 9:47pm: Hi Leach73. One thing we did that my daughter really liked at her party was a journal. I had a hard time finding one, so I got a Dr. Seuss "Oh The Places You'll Go!" journal, which kind of fit the theme. I had everyone write something in it at the party, and gave it to her to read on the trip to Chicago. She wrote back during the flight there, and mailed it back with her cell phone, in "The Box" with a message back to us. She now has it with her in Japan, and says she writes in it often. Blessings to you and your daughter, and welcome to the Navy family!

Comment by Leach73 on January 27, 2014 at 5:26pm: Hello to all the Navy Moms

I don't come on the site as often as I'd like to but when I do, I'm glad to see new things that help me learn more about the military life and what to expect.

My daugther leaves for BC on Feb. 19th. We are from the Chicago area so thankfully she doesn't have to take a flight or bus in from another state.

That date is coming up soon and with just a few weekends to go, I'd like to plan a little going away party for close family.

Any ideas? suggestions? Thanks in advance for your responses.

Comment by TwoForTheNavy on January 27, 2014 at 12:32pm: Hi all...to anyone that sent my daughter a card...she says "thank you" they have arrived:)

Comment by Leach73 on January 15, 2014 at 2:45pm: Hello to all!

My daughter will be leaving for BC on Feb. 19. She is going in with the interest of being a Hospital Corpsman. She did one year of college in a Surg. Tech. program and then took a biomed class at a community college. Her dream and vision is to be in the medical field and serve our great nation. I am so proud of her. Any other moms out there with sons/daughters in the interest of Hospital Corpsman or have been thru the experience?